Andrea Kuszewski, a behaviour therapist, has come up with five rules of life, that if followed, will “maximise your cognitive potential”. Basically, make give your brain more wrinkles. Luckily, you guys are probably living like this already. More »
This body, buried in the 1800s, is known as Soapman. Why? Because when re-discovered in 1875, the fats on his body had transformed into soap. How did it happen? Don’t click if you have a weak stomach. More »
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newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://www.youtube.com/v/-zqW3zQO9xg&hl=en&fs=1&hd=1","customParams":[] ,"width":500,"height":332.5,"ratio":0.615,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"youtube","wrap":true,"agegate":false} ); Currently, if a cardiac patient’s heart rate gets too high the implanted defibrillator in their chest gives them a friendly remedial shock to avoid a heart attack. But that could soon change—by giving hearts their very own IP addresses. More »
At US$6,000, this OSIM uSpace full body massage chair better do what it says in addition to just looking all sci-fi and space Pac-Manish. According to the manufacturer, the chair fixes you using mood lighting, massage, and music. They say the uSpace has three different modes: “revitalize”, “relax” or “balance” you.
The skin-ablation laser tattoo we showed you recently was creepy mainly because burning your naked skin is going to hurt, but this new laser body-mod tackles a safer target, fingernails. The portraits of famous bods you can see in the image are laser-etched into black nail polish (I know, it looks like they’re made of seared, blackened nail, but they’re not), and member lamedust over at Instructables has got a pretty comprehensive guide. So if you’re crazy, you too can etch pics onto the end of your digits. The video makes for interesting watching.
See that robot there? It’s burned by a laser-etch machine. On genyoowine human skin. Ohoho yes: that sent an icky feeling up your spine didn’t it? If it didn’t, then it should have. Try looking through the gallery, and then watch the video of a skin-etch in action, and that should do the trick…
IEEE, the industry trade mag for gigantic nerds, has this cool Flash demo of what a bionic body shop of the future would look like. Just pick out the parts of your body you’d want to enhance–hand, leg, heart, eyeball, ear, brain, peepee, foot or bladder–and it’ll show you how much the add-on will cost. It’s a part of their report on “the Singularity,” which is an eventual breakthrough in science or technology that will revolutionise humanity. Adding robotic or super-improved parts to yourself definitely qualifies as one. [IEEE]
I used to be very proud of my legs. I have slight knees and ankles. But the muscles around the bones were very strong. And in my early twenties, as a full time martial artist, I could kick very hard. My nose bled like a faucet, but I will say I could hold my own good and I was never so happy as at the end of a long day of training. Then things went sour, as they can. My friend who owned my boxing gym was mortally hurt outside of it in a fight with criminals, and a few months later I smashed my leg in a bad bike accident. I quit it all and my body has since been ravaged by the high tech lifestyle. I’m now incapable of jumping high or running fast. If my body was a gadget, I’d have thrown it out a long time ago. I think of all these things when I use the Wii Fit and grow a bit sad. But what’s positive is that for the first time in years, I’m excited to exercise. Wii fit is making me happier and healthier. (However retarded it is to exercise in front of a TV.)
