IEEE, the industry trade mag for gigantic nerds, has this cool Flash demo of what a
bionic body shop of the future would look like. Just pick out the parts of your body you'd want to enhance—hand, leg, heart, eyeball, ear, brain,
peepee, foot or bladder—and it'll show you how much the add-on will cost. It's a part of their report on "the Singularity," which is an eventual breakthrough in science or technology that will revolutionize humanity. Adding robotic or super-improved parts to yourself definitely qualifies as one. [
IEEE]
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The skin-ablation laser tattoo we showed you recently was creepy mainly because burning your naked skin is going to hurt, but this new laser body-mod tackles a safer target, fingernails. The portraits of famous bods you can see in the image are laser-etched into black nail polish (I know, it looks like they're made of seared, blackened nail, but they're not), and member lamedust over at Instructables has got a pretty comprehensive guide. So if you're crazy, you too can etch pics onto the end of your digits. The video makes for interesting watching.
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