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Now This Is How You Express Your Mac Love

5:00PM Yesterday | Andrew Tarantola

And you call yourself an Apple fanboy? Dressing up like a mutton-chopped Steve jobs (true to life!) while your buddy tromps about in a cyborg suit comprised of vintage Mac parts — that’s showing your fandom. More »


Science

Scientists Have Wired A Cockroach, Matrix-Style

7:00PM February 3, 2012 | Andrew Tarantola

Cripes, why don’t we just hand the planet over to the robots already. Things were bad with the self-controlling war machines and computers capable of destroying our greatest trivia minds, but now we’ve invented biological electricity harvesters. Might as well build a fleet of Squids while we’re at it. More »


Science

Scientists Create Cyborg Rats To Combat Brain Damage

12:00AM January 18, 2012 | Andrew Tarantola

Strokes and Parkinson’s Disease can cause irreparable damage to your grey matter. However, one controversial experiment aims to replace the function of those damaged areas with neural microchips. More »


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The Weirdest Thing We’ve Seen At CES (So Far)

3:30PM January 9, 2012 | Matt Buchanan

This amazing cyborg — is he more man, or more machine? — will haunt our dreams, and so much more.


The Inhuman Anatomy Of RoboCop

2:01PM September 22, 2010 | Matt Buchanan

Well, that answers a burning question: There is no RoboCock. More »


The Cyborg Fly Project Guides Robot Through Obstacle Course

5:00AM August 29, 2010 | Christina Bonnington

By tricking a fruit fly into thinking it was flying using an array of LEDs, researchers used the fly’s wing movements to steer a robot through an obstacle course. There’s video, so you can check out this cyborg fly for yourself. More »


Entertainment

All The Single (Legged) Ladies: If You Like It Then You Should Put A Machine Gun On It

7:03AM August 27, 2010 | Sam Biddle

Filmmaker and pioneering cyborg Rob Spence – famed for his camera eyeball implantan eligible young woman is looking for an eligible young woman. Who’s missing a leg. So he can give her a paintball machine gun. That she will attach to her leg. More »


Watch An Interview With The World’s First Cyborg

7:20AM August 12, 2010 | Brian Barrett

Twelve years ago, Professor Kevin Warwick became the world’s first cyborg. Today, at Motherboard he’s holding court on cybernetics, and how if we don’t embrace our cyber upgrade potential, the robots will someday win. More »


Computing

DIY Wearable Computer Turns You Into A Cyborg

11:00AM July 31, 2010 | Priya Ganapati - Wired

Someday humans and computers will meld together to create cyborgs. But instead of waiting for it, Martin Magnusson, a Swedish researcher and entrepreneur, has taken the first step and created a wearable computer that can be slung across the body. More »


The Artist Of The Cyber Future

12:54PM June 24, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

Isn’t she beautiful in an eerie way? This lady sprang from the mind of Benedict Campbell, a digital artist with a flair for capturing the extraordinary potential future. More »