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Want To Upgrade Yourself? Head To The Bionic Body Shop
11:00AM Rosa Golijan
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 »
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Intelligent Learning Retinal Implants To Adapt To Real Eyes
7:20AM Adam Frucci | 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 »
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Tales Of Human Upgrades: Magnetic Fingertips
6:20AM Adam Frucci | 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 »
Peripherals
Tales Of Human Upgrades: Jerry Jalava’s USB Finger
7:11AM Adam Frucci | 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 »
Random Stuff
Your (Improbable) Bionic Upgrades To The Human Body
6:00AM Adam Frucci | 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 »
Random Stuff
Tonka the Bionic Tortoise Gets Wheels Upgrade, Kicks Hares Arse in a Race
3:40AM Adam Frucci | How do you upgrade a tortoise? With wheels, of course! Say hello to Tonka the tortoise. More »
Gadgets
Bionic Penguins to Destroy Humans from Water and Air
8:40AM Jesus Diaz | 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 »
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Dude’s Ripped-Off Arm Replaced With Realistic Prototype Bionic I-Limb
12:00PM Wilson Rothman | 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 »
Hardware
Brain-Implanted Bionic Sex Stimulation Chip Is Probably Not Needed
10:27PM Jesus Diaz | 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: More »
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