The Ten Best Videos Of Man (and Creature) Fused With Machines [Robots]

5 days ago

Gizmodo: A spillover from last week's Cyborg-a-thon, Wired has put together a list of the top ten cyborg videos. But not everything is about fusing man with machine. As you can see in the sample videos above, sometimes we choo (Read More)

News Network: Robotics

Topic: Robots

This Cyborg Life Gets Unplugged [This Cyborg Life]

7 days ago

Gizmodo: With Monday fast upon us, we're wrapping up last week's theme This Cyborg Life, a look into the future of the machine called Man. And yes, that even means saying goodbye to Aimee Mullins. She was with us for three essays, all (Read More)

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Topics: Life, Case, Computers ...

Top 10 Cyborg Videos

7 days ago

Wired Science: With each passing year, the boundary between man and machine gets slimmer. Bionic ears have become commonplace, motorized prosthetics allow wounded soldiers to care for themselves, and electronic eyes are just over the horizo (Read More)

News Networks: Robotics, Firehose, Social Media ...

Topics: Brain, Neuroscience, Robotics ...

Cochlear Implants, Psychic Powers, and Why Some People Reject the Bionic Life [Health]

7 days ago

Gizmodo: There were some perks to dating a cyborg. My ex-boyfriend Josh was born mostly deaf, but had some hearing in one ear thanks to a cochlear implant—a spiral of electrodes threaded into his cochlea to stimulate the auditory nerv (Read More)

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Topics: Life, Deaf, American ...

Psychic Powers, Cochlear Implants, and My Bionic Ex-Boyfriend [Health]

Nov 15, 2009

Gizmodo: There were some perks to dating a cyborg. My ex-boyfriend Josh was born mostly deaf, but had some hearing in one ear thanks to a cochlear implant—a spiral of electrodes threaded into his cochlea to stimulate the auditory nerv (Read More)

News Networks: Social Media Watch, Web 2.0, Tech News ...

Topics: Health, Life, Deaf ...

Meet the British Man with the "Bionic Bottom" [Cyborgs]

Nov 15, 2009

Gizmodo: What better way to, um, end the This Cyborg Life theme week than a post about a British guy with a bionic ass? Meet Ged Galvin, a 55-year-old chap from Barnsley, south Yorkshire, who is currently in possession of a very speci (Read More)

News Networks: Robotics, The Social Media News Network, Augmented Reality And Our Futures' ...

Topics: Life, Interview, Tv ...

The Enhanced Human, SkyMall Style [Gadgets]

Nov 15, 2009

Gizmodo: I am ashamed of two things. 1) That in our quest for the cyborg life, we were beaten to the punch by SkyMall, and 2) that none of the following products are fake. Let's just get this first one out of the way: Not only does t (Read More)

News Networks: Science & Technology, Gadgets, Entrepreneur ...

Topics: Digital, Life, Camera ...

Normal Was Never Cool: Inception of Perception [Aimee Mullins]

Nov 14, 2009

Gizmodo: Last year I met a beautiful five-year-old child, who had been born with neurofibramatosis (NF), causing her left leg to have extremely brittle bones. For nearly the first year of her life, her parents and doctors were unaware (Read More)

News Networks: Android, Social Media Watch, Web 2.0 ...

Topics: Life, Video, Video Games ...

Becoming a Sexual Cyborg (NSFW) [Cyborg Sex]

Nov 14, 2009

Gizmodo: I used to think "sexual enhancement" just meant "sex toys." That is, until I started exploring the wonderful—and sometimes utterly weird—world of mechanical and electronic sex augmentations. Here's what's happening now and wh (Read More)

News Networks: Social Media Watch, Web 2.0, Tech News ...

Topics: Life, Toys, Second Life ...

Finger Touching Phone Concept Gives You Touchtone Knuckles [This Cyborg Life]

Nov 14, 2009

Gizmodo: The Finger Touching phone concept is perfect if you're not brave enough to have a phone embedded under your skin, yet still want to look trendy and futuristic. Granted you'd look dorky talking into your hand, hologram buttons (Read More)

News Networks: Arts & Entertainment, Robotics, Lbs News Get It Where It'S Hot! ...

Topics: Phone, Life, Design ...

10 iPhone Apps To Augment Your Sad Reality [IPhone Apps]

Nov 13, 2009

Gizmodo: Augmented reality. It's definitely a buzz word, but what is it? How do you experience it? Is there an app for it? Oh, most definitely. Here are 10. True to their name, augmented reality apps add something to what you see, usi (Read More)

News Networks: Android, Social Media Watch, Apple ...

Topics: Phone, Augmented Reality, Apps ...

Want To Upgrade Yourself? Head To The Bionic Body Shop [This Cyborg Life]

Nov 13, 2009

Gizmodo: Vagus Nerve Stimulation: $95,000. Deep Brain Stimulation: $40,000. Sacral Nerve Stimulation: $16,000. 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 Sh (Read More)

News Networks: Robotics, Mind Blowery, Technology Breaking News ...

Topics: Life, Future, Love ...

Racing on Carbon Fiber Legs: How Abled Should We Be? [Aimee Mullins]

Nov 12, 2009

Gizmodo: One Olympic swimmer has a D-cup breast size. From a physiological standpoint, she's at a disadvantage to a swimmer who's an A-cup. If she amputated her breasts to become more streamlined, would we consider her crazy, or worse (Read More)

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Topics: Sports, Life, Future ...

Racing on Carbon Fiber Legs: Can We Be Too Abled? [Aimee Mullins]

Nov 12, 2009

Gizmodo: One Olympic swimmer has a D-cup breast size. From a physiological standpoint, she's at a disadvantage to a swimmer who's an A-cup. If she amputated her breasts to become more streamlined, would we consider her crazy, or worse (Read More)

News Networks: Social Media Watch, Web 2.0, Tech News ...

Topics: Life, Sports, Case ...

The Six Million Dollar Man's Cyborg Surgery, Adjusted for Today's Dollar [Thiscyborglife]

Nov 11, 2009

Gizmodo: Back in 1974, astronaut Steve Austin, gravely injured in a crash, was given a new arm, two new legs and one new eye in the iconic show The Six Million Dollar Man. But what would such cyborg reconstruction cost today? Last May (Read More)

News Networks: Android, Advertising & Marketing, Seo 2.0 ...

Topics: Prototype, Money, Amazon ...

Tales of Human Upgrades: Jerry Jalava's USB Finger [This Cyborg Life]

Nov 10, 2009

Gizmodo: 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. The USB drive isn't perman (Read More)

News Networks: Mobile Advertising, Robotics, The Tech 200 News Network ...

Topics: Usb, Life, Work ...

15 Improbable Bionic Upgrades to the Human Body [Photoshop Contest]

Nov 10, 2009

Gizmodo: 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. First Place—Doc B (Read More)

News Network: Robotics

Create the Ultimate Bionic Human Upgrades [Photoshop Contest]

Nov 06, 2009

Gizmodo: In the not-too-distant future, we'll be able to upgrade our bodies with real hardware. But what exactly do you want grafted onto your body? The world is your nanomachine-powered oyster! Send your best entries to me at contest (Read More)

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Topics: Work, Future, Hardware ...

Silk-Silicon Implantable Electronics Conform to Tissues, Then Melt Away

Nov 03, 2009

Popular Science - SciTech: Implantable electronics like pacemakers are old hat, but these kinds of implants are limited by the fact that they must be encased to protect them from the body, and vice versa. But in the quest to make our bodies ever more b (Read More)

News Networks: New Media, The Bleeding Edge Of Sciene And Technology, Robotics

Topics: Science, Nano, Technology

Custom-Tuned Eyesight Is the Latest Trend in Ophthalmology

Oct 06, 2009

Popular Science - SciTech: 20/20 vision is no longer enough to function in this world. In the latest trend in laser eye surgeries, people are tailoring their eyesight to suit their lifestyle or profession, hoping to give themselves an edge in their re (Read More)

News Networks: New Media, The Bleeding Edge Of Sciene And Technology, Robotics

Topics: Online, Technology, Tech