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Tag Archives: cyborg
Our Cyborg Future: Man Embeds Magnets In Wrist To Make Strapless Watch
Like to keep track of time and enjoy music on your iPod nano, but can’t tolerate those cumbersome bands and [...]
Posted in Art, Gadgets, Longevity And Health, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged Art, cyborg, dave hurban, idermal, ipod, nano, tattoo
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Retinal Implants Restore Partial Sight To Three Blind
The blind really are beginning to see again. After receiving retinal implants in a trial, two people in the UK [...]
Posted in Cyborg, Gadgets, Longevity And Health, Singularity, Stem Cells
Tagged China, cyborg, medicine, retinal implant ag, retinal implants, Stem Cells
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Man Receives New Bionic Hand With Electronic Opposable Thumb
On January 12 Matt Razink received a prosthetic hand equipped with an electric opposable thumb. The Michelangelo Hand has given [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged advanced arm dynamics, bionic hand, cyborg, otto bock, prosthetics
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Will You Be a Cyborg by 2027? Awesome Website Marketing the New Deus Ex Video Game Says ‘Yes’ (Video)
Over a decade ago, the video game Deus Ex was remarkable for its blending of numerous game genres, emphasis on [...]
Posted in Cyborg, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged cyborg, Deus Ex, prosthetics, sarif industries
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Exoskeletal Arm Support From Equipois to be Released in June
Gravity can be a pain, literally. Any of you who work in a factory, lab, operating room, or any other [...]
Posted in Cyborg, Longevity And Health, Video Central
Tagged cyborg, equipois, exoskeleton, exoskeleton arm
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Cyborg Professor to Implant Camera on Back of Head
Hi Art, I’d like you to meet Cybernetics. I think the two of you are going to get along just [...]
Posted in Art, Cyborg
Tagged camera, cybernetics, cyborg, Mathaf Araba Museum of Modern Art, The 3rd I, Wafaa Bilal, wearable camera
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Retina Implant Restores Vision, Lets Cyborgs See IR Spectrum!
Scientists in Germany have developed a retina implant to restore vision to the blind that hints at the augmentation cyborgs [...]
Posted in Cyborg
Tagged argus, artificial retina, blindness, cybernetics, cyborg, Eberhart Zrenner, retina implant, retinal implant
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Washington Creates World’s First Cyborg with a Balance Implant (video)
Researchers at the University of Washington are pioneering an area of cybernetics that few have explored: the sense of balance. [...]
Italian Boy Receives Permanent ‘Artificial Heart’ Implant
A fifteen year old boy in Italy has become the youngest to receive an ‘artificial heart’ implant on a permanent [...]
Posted in Cyborg
Tagged Antonio Amodeo, artificial heart, Bambino Gesu, cybernetics, cyborg, heart implant
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Amazing Robot Controlled By Rat Brain Continues Progress
Some technologies are so cool they make you do a double take. Case in point: robots being controlled by rat [...]
80,000 and Counting, Brain Implants on the Rise World Wide
Those fighting conditions like dystonia, Parkinson’s Disease, and chronic pain have a way of alleviating their symptoms – direct electric [...]
Posted in AI
Tagged cybernetic, cyborg, dystonia, medtronic, parkinson's, st judes medical
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Army’s HULC Exoskeleton To Test at End of 2010, Hints at Industrial/Medical Uses
The problem with military technology is that people like to use it to fight wars. Lockheed Martin recently announced in [...]
Posted in Cyborg
Tagged Army, cyborg, exoskeleton, HULC, human universal load carrier, Lockheed Martin
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Video Of Baby Hearing for First Time After Cochlear Implant
A two year old video has recently been gaining popularity around web – in it a baby hears for the [...]
Posted in Cyborg
Tagged augmentation, cochlear implants, cybernetics, cyborg, Deaf community, Deaf culture, hearing aides, Johnathan, Sound and Fury
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Monkey Controls Robot Arm With Brain Implant (Video)
If you want the epitome of cool cybernetics, it doesn’t get much better than a monkey waving around a robot [...]
Posted in AI, Cyborg, Robots
Tagged andrew schwartz, brain-computer interface, cybernetics, cyborg, macaque, monkey, neural interface, university of pittsburgh
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Can’t Miss Videos of the Argus Artificial Retina In Action
Modern science is mimicking the miraculous by restoring sight to the blind. The Argus line of artificial retinas has been [...]
Posted in Cyborg
Tagged argus, artificial retina, artificial retina project, bionic eyes, cyborg, Department of Energy, implants, second sight
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Eye Popping Pics of Cyborg Animals from Photoshop Contest
The Internet loves animals, and it loves photoshop. Worth1000.com decided to harness that double love and start a Photoshop contest [...]
Posted in Art, Cyborg, Robots
Tagged contest, cyborg, photoshop, robot animals, Worth1000
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Kevin Warwick, Once a Cyborg, Now Prophet of the Man-Machine Future
He has used his mind to control a robotic hand, he has sent his thoughts across the Atlantic and clenched [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces, Singularity
Tagged brain-computer interface, cybernetics, cyborg, Kevin Warwick, Reading University
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Cyborg Insect Spies to Become Nuclear Powered
They don’t have the pomp and flair of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but Nuclear Cyborg Insect Spies are still [...]
Posted in Gadgets
Tagged Amit Lal, beta particles, Cornell University, cyborg, darpa, half life, mems, microelectromechanical systems, Nickel-63, radiation
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Roach Acts As Brain for Robot (Video)
I’m not a big fan of cockroaches, and that goes double for the giant hissing kind. So I find Garnet [...]
Free Flying Cyborg Beetles
In the future, when a spy worries about a room being bugged, she might have to look for actual bugs. [...]
Posted in Cyborg, Gadgets, Robots, Singularity
Tagged beetle, cyborg, Michael Maharbiz, University of California Berkeley
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Cyberdyne Lets Hal Cyborgs Take a Stroll Through Tokyo
The Cyborg revolution marches inexhaustibly forward. Last Monday, the Cyberdyne company had three of its employees strut the streets of [...]
Posted in Cyborg, Gadgets, Robots
Tagged cyberdyne, cyborg, disabled, exoskeleton, hal, Tokyo
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Will Your ID Soon Be a Microchip Under Your Skin?
Yet another sci-fi milestone is upon us: microchips implanted under your skin and used to identify you. The VeriChip is [...]
Posted in Cyborg, Singularity
Tagged bionic, body 2.0, chip implant, cyborg, implant, microchip
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Intestinal Implants make Cyborgs out of Diabetics
Modern medicine may not have reached the level of the Bionic Woman, but intestinal implants are turning more and more [...]
Cyberdyne Ready to Mass Produce Cyborgs
Nothing transforms scientific gurus into excited SciFi geeks quicker than the mention of a robotic exoskeleton. Iron Man, RoboTECH, Exosquad, [...]
Cyborg Insects Take Flight
Insects that can be remote controlled to spy on others? A completely robotic fly smaller than a penny? These are [...]