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Brain-Controlled Bionic Hand Offers Most Advanced Artificial Touch Yet

The new brain-computer interface device goes "beyond anything that has been done before," the researchers claim.

Image: Ortiz-Catalan et al/Science Robotics

Woman’s Experimental Bionic Hand Passes Major Test With Flying Colors

The Mia Hand prosthetic, fused with bone and connected to the nervous system, has given its owner a new lease on life and much less phantom pain.

Health Ed Cara

New Research Takes Us One Step Closer to a Bionic Eye

For the first time ever, scientists have 3D-printed an array of light sensors onto an eyeball-shaped surface. Eventually, a scaled-up version of the device could restore vision to the blind, or even improve the vision of sighted people. New research published this week in Advanced Materials describes the device. Researchers at the University of Minnesota…

Health George Dvorsky

Watch Tiny Crab Spiders Take Flight With 10-Foot Silk Parachutes

If you’re arachnophobic, I hate to tell you this, but spiders can fly. Don’t panic—it’s pretty much only the extra-tiny ones that take flight, which is a behavior called ballooning. By releasing a bouquet of streamer-like silks, baby spiders ascend into the air to find new homes after hatching, and adult spiders do so to…

Biology Jessica Boddy

Iconic Bionics: 11 of the Best Cyborg Superhumans in Pop Culture

This past weekend, Upgrade hit movie theaters nationwide. The film directed by Leigh Whannell shows how a man named Grey Trace recovers from violent crime and paralysis with advanced technology that makes him a sort of vigilante superhero. Cool as he is, he’s just a new addition to a long list of iconic bionic people.…

io9 Evan Narcisse

Bionic Evolution Comes at a Sinister Price in the First Trailer for Perfect

Most speculative fiction about futures where people use bionic technology to augment their bodies asks questions about what it means to be human when your body is increasingly manufactured. But Eddie Alcazar’s Perfect, premiering at this year’s SXSW, imagines a world where bionics are designed to take things away from people in order to become…

Trailers Charles Pulliam-Moore

Take an Uncanny Tour of the World’s Largest Prosthetics Fair

The world’s largest orthopedics event is happening right now in Leipzig, Germany. From prosthetic legs that enable people to run faster to exoskeletons that can make the disabled walk again, OT World 2016 is showcasing some of the most futuristic inventions you’ve ever seen. They’re also creepy as hell. https://gizmodo.com/how-close-are-we-to-building-a-full-fledged-cyborg-1443146375 Bionic arms and ultra realistic…

Tech News Attila Nagy

Kid Gets Awesome New Bionic Hand, Reminds Us Not Everything is Garbage

The stock market is tanking, North and South Korea are on the brink of war, and a cartoon character from a dystopian future is the most popular candidate for US President at the moment. But don’t despair. While most things are garbage, there are some things in the world that aren’t. Like this adorable kid…

Tech News Matt Novak

Scientists Use Graphene to Make Bionic, Super-Powered Plants

A team of chemical engineers and biochemists has managed to change how plants work. Well, to be exact, they’ve made plants work better by embedding carbon nanotubes into the plants’ leaves so that they absorb more light. Put simply, they’ve created bionic plants. The technique is not quite perfect. “We envisioned them as new hybrid…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Welcome to the Age of the Bionic Superbug

Like a silent bionic army, the era of the cyborg has crept upon us. Or so a group of reviewers said recently when they evaluated where the science of cyborgs has led. Is this era one of super-powered, tech-enhanced humans? If you look at it through one lens, yes—today we have medical enhancements that would,…

Tech News Emma Bryce - The Connectivist

How Close Are We to Building a Full-Fledged Cyborg?

The dream of the cyborg is coming true at an exhilarating rate. As humans gets better and better at making machines, we keep attaching those machines to our bodies to make ourselves better humans. It seems at times that the only question left is if we can put a human brain in a robotic frame.…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

I Wore a Bionic Leg, And I Never Wanted To Take It Off Again

Say you’ve just had ACL surgery. Or you’re recovering from a bad break. Or, worse, you suffer a stroke, or MS, or spinal or neurological damage. Regaining the power to walk is one of the toughest things you can do, and it may be impossible without a crutch, rail, or physical therapist to lean on.…

Tech News Brent Rose

Science Has Built Luke Skywalker’s Robotic Hand, Touch and All

Amputees may one day regain actual feeling thanks to Darpa and researchers at Case Western University who have created what we thought was once only possible in science fiction. As a part of DARPA’s Reliable Neural-Interface Technology (RE-NET) program, CWRU’s flat interface nerve electrode (FINE) system has demonstrated that it can provide enough sensation to…

Tech News Peter ha

These Tiny Carbon Microthreads Could Wire the Computers of the Future Directly to Your Brain

A brain-computer interface is a nice thing to dream about, but it’s not exactly around the corner. We are always getting closer, however. Newly developed carbon microthreads could serve as the long-lasting kind of brain implants you’d need to be able to mind-control computers. The new microthread electrodes, designed at the University of Michigan, are…

Tech News Eric Limer

We’re closer to becoming real cyborgs than most people realize

In the New York Times the other day, there was a great story by Pagan Kennedy about experiments with brain-computer interfaces, which included the stuff you usually hear about, like people moving cursors with their minds. But it also included some new stuff, like Kennedy herself choosing a picture on her phone using just brainwaves…

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Voluntary amputees opt for bionic hands over real ones

After being electrocuted at work, a young Austrian man named Patrick found that he could no longer move one of his hands. He lived with the injury for a few years, but then decided he’d rather amputate the hand and replace it with something bionic – a synthetic hand controlled by nerve signals from his…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Portraits In Posthumanity: Claudia Mitchell

In 2004, Claudia Mitchell lost her left arm in a motorcycle accident. Two years later, she became the first woman to have a bionic arm – a prosthetic limb that she controls with her mind. The robotic arm comes from the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, and was developed for $3 million. Mitchell, who used to…

io9 Annalee Newitz

A Bionic Hand Is the Ultimate Bluetooth Accessory

The i-Limb bionic hand has always been a favorite around here, and it keeps getting better. Today, meet i-Limb Pulse: a prosthesis from Touch Bionics with a programmable kung-fu grip, compliments of bluetooth. https://gizmodo.com/ilimb-bionic-hand-comes-closer-to-emulating-the-real-th-5062680 The stronger grip isn’t just for a firmer handshake; it’s crucial for daily activities that require a tight pinch like tying…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The iPad vs. Alien Apocalypse

I’m not sure how to respond to this other than: I can only hope that the iPad destroys us all, painfully. [xkcd]

Tech News Mark Wilson

Sensor Armor Transforms Pitchers Into Finely Honed Machines

With any sport, the more exhausted you become, the more prone you are to injury. In baseball, this is especially a problem for pitchers. But a new shirt can track a pitcher’s form in real time. Designed by three engineering students from Northeastern University, their smart shirt is essentially Under Armor fitted with sensors and…

Tech News Mark Wilson

bionics

Brain-Controlled Bionic Hand Offers Most Advanced Artificial Touch Yet

Woman’s Experimental Bionic Hand Passes Major Test With Flying Colors

New Research Takes Us One Step Closer to a Bionic Eye

Watch Tiny Crab Spiders Take Flight With 10-Foot Silk Parachutes

Iconic Bionics: 11 of the Best Cyborg Superhumans in Pop Culture

Bionic Evolution Comes at a Sinister Price in the First Trailer for Perfect

Take an Uncanny Tour of the World’s Largest Prosthetics Fair

Kid Gets Awesome New Bionic Hand, Reminds Us Not Everything is Garbage

Scientists Use Graphene to Make Bionic, Super-Powered Plants

Welcome to the Age of the Bionic Superbug

How Close Are We to Building a Full-Fledged Cyborg?

I Wore a Bionic Leg, And I Never Wanted To Take It Off Again

Science Has Built Luke Skywalker’s Robotic Hand, Touch and All

These Tiny Carbon Microthreads Could Wire the Computers of the Future Directly to Your Brain

We’re closer to becoming real cyborgs than most people realize

Voluntary amputees opt for bionic hands over real ones

Portraits In Posthumanity: Claudia Mitchell

A Bionic Hand Is the Ultimate Bluetooth Accessory

The iPad vs. Alien Apocalypse

Sensor Armor Transforms Pitchers Into Finely Honed Machines

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