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more about #bionic more comments → Slinkytech: O. My. God. Skynet. Skynet must be destroyed. more » Hachiken: The guy is wearing a calculator nerd -watch! I love it! I bet he did all the cybernetic design calculations on his nerd-watch! He could've used a mass... more » MrEvil: I have an uncle that lost two fingers on his right hand, plus most of the bones of his right index finger. This would have been an excellent solution... more » Die Fledermaus: Brilliant piece of technology, Smaller will be better but all things in time. Also I am sure the speed will increase. more » Noobs-R-Us: Hopefully, they'll be able to make it smaller. This version is still a bit too big. It makes the person look awkward with one BIG hand. more » yantelope: Sweet. I've been waiting for years to flip people the bionic finger more » Brazell: I suggest everybody listen to the All Things Considered story on Prosthetics from a few weeks ago. [www.npr.org] THe article attached to that is ver... more » Curves: Imagine the joy of a blind person who could finally see the face of their babies. To look again at the world around them. The gift of second sight ... more » not_a_virus.exe.vbs: I want to be able to see the ultraviolet like in Predator. #retinalimplants more » Kaiser-Machead: I wonder how well a human being would adjust to vision that exceeds the norm, like being able to read a paper from across the length of a football fie... more » Duckspwn: The first thing I thought of when I read "light, rapid buzz" was Awesome, I want one in my penis. Then I realized all my zippers would need to be pla... more » sepponearth: I think my post got deleted so I'll redo it.. I have these so I will clear some things up: Credit cards: I tried to ruin a debit card I don't really... more » sepponearth: Hey guys. I've lurked for awhile but this post made me sign up. I have these magnets implanted so I'll clear some things up: MRI Machine: They'd rip... more » Hunter2458: "Well, how about being able to feel your laptop spinning up? " And what? ruin the hard drive while we're at it? more » greasedupdeafguy: I would love to use this to locate stove tops and motors, rather than using my eyes. #bodymods more » -
#bionic
World's First Bionic Finger Gives New Meaning to SuperPoke
Over 30 people are currently outfitted with ProDigits, bionic fingers that can actually grab and pick up objects in a way that previous prostheses couldn't. You've got to see these in action. More » -
#thiscyborglife
Intelligent Learning Retinal Implants to Adapt to Real Eyes
A Swiss company called IMI has been putting its "Intelligent Retinal Implant System" through clinical trials for the past three years. When it's ready, it could help restore sight to the blind. More » -
#thiscyborglife
Tales of Human Upgrades: Magnetic Fingertips
So, why would you ever want to make your fingertip magnetic? Well, how about being able to feel your laptop spinning up? Or sensing if a cable had a current going through it? Think of it as a sixth sense. More » -
#thiscyborglife
Tales of Human Upgrades: Jerry Jalava's USB Finger
Jerry Jalava was riding his motorcycle home from work one day, when a deer ran in front of him. Long story short, he lost half his index finger. So, of course, he replaced it with a USB flash drive. More » -
#photoshopcontest
15 Improbable Bionic Upgrades to the Human Body
For this week's Photoshop Contest, I asked you to imagine some bionic upgrades for the human body. And it's safe to say that I am not interested in having any of you perform unnecessary surgery on me. Yikes. More » -
#photoshopcontest
Create the Ultimate Bionic Human Upgrades
In the not-too-distant future, we'll be able to upgrade our bodies with real hardware. But what exactly do you want grafted onto your body? The world is your nanomachine-powered oyster! More » -
#tedmed
Bionic Athlete Aimee Mullins To Speak at TEDMED 2009
After displaying her collection of prosthetic legs at this year's TED conference, bionic actress, athlete and model Aimee Mullins recently announced that she will speak at the TEDMED convention this fall. More » -
#animals
Tonka the Bionic Tortoise Gets Wheels Upgrade, Kicks Hares Ass in a Race
How do you upgrade a tortoise? With wheels, of course! Say hello to Tonka the tortoise. More » -
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#bionic
Bionic Penguins to Destroy Humans from Water and Air
Bionic penguins that travel underwater independently. Bionic flying penguins. Robotic arms made of fiberglass rods with free will. Molecubes that assemble into infinite-growing robots. All for real, as this video shows. I'm leaving the planet. More » -
#wecanrebuildhim
Elderly Man Sees For First Time in 30 Years With Bionic Eye
A 73-year-old man was recently given vision again after being outfitted with a "bionic eye." After 30 years of darkness, he now can see enough to follow white lines on the road and sort socks. More » -
#video
Dude's Ripped-Off Arm Replaced With Realistic Prototype Bionic I-Limb
One day while riding in his friend's car, Evan Reynolds' arm got ripped off, and he became one of the first people to score a fully functioning Luke-Skywalker-style robotic I-Limb from Touch Bionics. More » -
#nanotech
Nano-Sized Semiconductor Dots Could Fix Your Terrible Vision
New Scientist reports that researchers at the University of Colorado came up with this crazy idea that if they inject semiconductor nanoparticles in your retinas, photons will make them glow, thus improving your vision. More » -
#bionic
Bionic Body Shop is Much Less Girly Than Current Body Shop
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]
