Archive for the ‘cyborgs’ category: Page 93
Aug 2, 2017
This cyborg dragonfly is basically a living, breathing drone
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: cyborgs, drones
Aug 2, 2017
World’s lamest cyborg? My microchip isn’t cool now – but it could be the future
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: computing, cyborgs
Olivia Solon felt more key fob than Robocop after getting implanted with a microchip to make contactless purchases. But the future could hold much more.
Jul 31, 2017
Opinion: Super-intelligence and eternal life—transhumanism’s faithful follow it blindly into a future for the elite
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, cyborgs, genetics, life extension, nanotechnology, robotics/AI, transhumanism
The rapid development of so-called NBIC technologies – nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science – are giving rise to possibilities that have long been the domain of science fiction. Disease, ageing and even death are all human realities that these technologies seek to end.
They may enable us to enjoy greater “morphological freedom” – we could take on new forms through prosthetics or genetic engineering. Or advance our cognitive capacities. We could use brain-computer interfaces to link us to advanced artificial intelligence (AI).
Nanobots could roam our bloodstream to monitor our health and enhance our emotional propensities for joy, love or other emotions. Advances in one area often raise new possibilities in others, and this “convergence” may bring about radical changes to our world in the near-future.
Jul 29, 2017
ICyborg: Apple Just Announced The First Mass Market Cyborg Enhancement
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: cyborgs, mobile phones
Cyborg tech has mostly been backroom, squishy, bloody, and experimental. Now an FDA-approved surgically implanted hearing aid connects to your standard-issue iPhone.
Ein Mensch sei er nicht mehr, sagt Neil Harbisson. Seit eine Antenne mit seinem Kopf verbunden ist, bezeichnet er sich als Cyborg. Gehört der Verbindung von Mensch und Maschine die Zukunft?
Jul 24, 2017
For The First Time, a US Company Is Implanting Microchips in Its Employees
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: cyborgs, employment, robotics/AI
We’re always hearing how robots are going to take our jobs, but there might be a way of preventing that grim future from happening: by becoming workplace cyborgs first.
A company in Wisconsin has become the first in the US to roll out microchip implants for all its employees, and says it’s expecting over 50 of its staff members to be voluntarily ‘chipped’ next week.
The initiative, which is entirely optional for employees at snack stall supplier Three Square Market (32M), will implant radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips in staff members’ hands in between their thumb and forefinger.
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Jul 22, 2017
Zoltan Istvan: the poster boy for immortality
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: cyborgs, economics, genetics, life extension, open access, robotics/AI, transhumanism
I’m really excited to announce a 5-page feature spread on my #transhumanism work and Libertarian Governor campaign in today’s Times of London Magazine, one of England’s oldest and largest papers. There’s a paywall for digital but I think you can get two articles free without registering. If you have access to the print, it’s in the magazine:
Zoltan Istvan is launching his campaign to become Libertarian governor of California with two signature policies. First, he’ll eliminate poverty with a universal basic income that will guarantee $5,000 (£3,800) per month for every Californian household for ever. (He’ll do this without raising taxes a dime, he promises.) The next item in his in-tray is eliminating death. He intends to divert trillions of dollars into life-extending technologies – robotic hearts, artificial exoskeletons, genetic editing, bionic limbs and so on – in the hope that each Californian man, woman and AI (artificial intelligence) will eventually be able to upload their consciousness to the Cloud and experience digital eternity.
“What we can experience as a human being is going to be dramatically different within two decades,” he…
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Jul 17, 2017
This exoskeleton is basically a chairless chair
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: cyborgs
Jul 15, 2017
Prototype exoskeleton suit would improve Soldiers’ physical, mental performance
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: cyborgs, military, neuroscience
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — Thanks to a new “suit” being developed by the DOD-funded Warrior Web program, future Soldiers will be able to march longer, carry heavier gear and improve mental sharpness.
The suit has pulleys and gears designed to prevent and reduce musculoskeletal injuries caused by the dynamic events typically experienced in the Warfighter’s environment.
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