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‘Epidermal (Skin-Grafted) Electronics’ Are Now Closer to Reality
How would you feel about having a cell phone grafted onto your throat, or a keyboard into your fingertips? With recent research, this might not be such a far-off idea. Continue reading
Cyborgs R Us?
In an age of ever-more fantastic gadgets, it’s becoming received wisdom that we’re all cyborgs now. But as implant hacker Lepht Anonym reminds us, the original vision of the term was dangerous and feral. Videos after the jump. Continue reading
Gearfuse Almanac: January 18 in Science and Technology
A giant aircraft, a wandering writer’s enigmatic death, and a cyborg with can-do spirit—today’s hits in the history of science and technology. Continue reading
Playing Pong with the Stuff of Life
Protozoan Pong and neurostimulating LCD projectors illuminate the control mechanisms of simpler organisms. Continue reading
Sex-crazed cyborg-moth mind control!
Scientists at Tokyo Tech have tapped into the neurons of a male silk moth, connecting its tiny brain to a little wheeled robot. When the moth’s sense organs are exposed to female pheremones, the robot performs the silk moth’s mating dance. Continue reading
Michael Jackson and The Advancement of Cyborg Technology
Is the world ready for cyborgs? Apparently not, as witnessed yesterday by the “death” of pop singer Michael Jackson. I have a source that was very close to MJ and word on the street is that his death was actually a CPU failure. Apparently, the model engineer Quincy Jones implanted in the 1980s, the THRLR-116 was meant for only 10 years of full-time use. After all the plastic remodeling done to keep Michael from overheating his RAMDISK and CPU, the... Continue reading
