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Tag Archives: implant
Nanotech Implant Monitors for Cancer and Now Heart Attacks, Too
Heart attacks and cancer account for nearly half of all deaths in the United States – they’re the two biggest [...]
Posted in Cyborg, Longevity And Health
Tagged biomarkers, body monitoring, cancer, chtristophoros vassiliou, heart attack, implant, Michael Cima, MIT, monitor, nanoparticles, nanotechnology
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The Lifelogging Professor – An Update on the Surgically Implanted Camera
I don’t know artist Wafaa Bilal, but I know exactly where he was about an hour ago. How? The constant [...]
Becoming Cybernetic: 3D Custom-Fit Knee Implants from ConforMIS
Like the treads on car tires, the all important cartilage within our knees is slowly wearing down. By the age [...]
Posted in Cyborg, Longevity And Health, Video Central
Tagged 3D, implant, knee, prosthetic
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Implant that Shocks Brain to Treat Epilepsy in Clinical Trials
The medical uses of electrically shocking your brain have a dubious history and a worse portrayal in movies. One Flew [...]
Posted in AI, Longevity And Health
Tagged clinical trials, electric shock, epilepsy, implant, neopace, responsive stimulation, RNS, seizure
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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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Braingate Frees Trapped Minds
It is a horrifying concept: being buried alive. Even more terrible is the prospect of living trapped in our own [...]
Posted in AI, Cyborg, Longevity And Health
Tagged body 2.0, implant, locked-in syndrome, mind reading, neurotechnology, prosthetic
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Implantable Eye Telescope Brings Sight Back To The Blind
For the millions of people who suffer from age-related eye degeneration, restoring sight to the blind might sound less like [...]
Posted in Cyborg, Longevity And Health
Tagged blind, eye, eye telescope, implant, imt, vision
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The Rise of the Cyborgs
Discover Magazine has just blown me away with a fascinating story on the current state of brain-computer interfaces (BCI). The [...]
Posted in AI, Cyborg, Robots
Tagged bci, brain, brain-computer interface, implant, signal
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Chip for Eye Implants Could Run for a Year on Millimeter Sized Battery
The Short: An IEEE Spectrum report and University of Michigan report tell of a fascinating advance in the development of [...]
Posted in AI, Computer Interfaces, Cyborg, Longevity And Health
Tagged implant, microchip, phoenix, power
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