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Brainport Allows the Blind to See With Their Tongues
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It looks like the BrainPort vision technology has now been tested on humans. It will now allow the visually-impaired to “see” things using their tongues! The human test subject was a soldier, who was blinded in Iraq. The system consists of a small video camera attached to a pair of… |
March 17th, 2010
First Step in Becoming a Cyborg: Bionic Feet!
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The one concept of Cyberpunk …that I’ve always enjoyed is bionic limbs. In that near future universe, people could have cybernetic limbs. For years, this concept was relegated to science-fiction. However, there has been progress to make these sort of replacement limbs a reality. A lot of people lose limbs |
February 26th, 2010
Inventor: We Can All be Cyborgs 20 Years From Now. California Governor: Been There, Done That.
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In a recent article in The Sun, famous inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil makes a lot of bold claims about our future, saying that by 2029 humans will be able to halt and even reverse the effects of aging. and then we’ll live forever, with the help of Hideo Kojima’s… |
September 25th, 2009
Resistance is Futile: Radio-Controlled Cyborg Beetles
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Oh crap. I knew it. Those stupid robots at SparkFun’s race were publicized to lull us all into a false sense of security: “Wow it just went for a dive at the lake HAHA st00pid botz.” Yet now we have cyborg beetles. CyBORG beetles people. |
May 1st, 2009
Eyeborg: Canadian Filmmaker Installs a Red LED Into His Prosthetic Eye
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Filmmaker Rob Spence lost his eye when he was 11 years old. He was playing with a shotgun back in his grandfather’s farm in Ireland when it backfired. Now he and his partners in the Eyeborg Project want to “transform his loss into a superhuman strength” for art’s sake. Spence… |
April 9th, 2009
General Grievous Tote for the Discerning Shopper
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What could be cooler than a hand-stitched General Grievous tote? Um, how about a hand-stitched General Grievous tote that glows in the dark…? Oh, how I’d love to flash this Star Wars baddie all around town! I don’t know that much about it, just that Flickr user woundupladybug is |
September 25th, 2008
Saitek Cyborg Fps Gamepad Offers Custom Left Controls
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Here’s an interesting new gaming controller design from Saitek. The new Cyborg PP26 Rumble Gamepad controller lets you swap the positions of the left analog sitck and digital joypad. This seems like a great idea, since it seems the position of those controls is a highly individual preference. It’s especially… |
July 18th, 2007
Doctor Who Cyberman Voice Changing Helmet
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Regardless of whether you’re a fan of the the British Sci-Fi classic Doctor Who, you’ll be the life of the party when you wear the Cyberman Voice Changer Helmet. Modeled after the recently updated version of the Cybermen in the long-running BBC series, this helmet not only makes you look… |
January 30th, 2007
