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 »
Vagus Nerve Stimulation: $US95,000. Deep Brain Stimulation: $US40,000. Sacral Nerve Stimulation: $US16,000. I don’t need most of these things (or even know what they are), but I’d still love a spending spree in the Bionic Body Shop. More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
How do you upgrade a tortoise? With wheels, of course! Say hello to Tonka the tortoise.
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.
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.
Scientists are working in a new brain-implanted sex stimulation chip that will make you even more horny than what you already are. Apparently, according to Oxford University researcher Professor Aziz, it was discovered by accident:
