MetaFilter posts tagged with cyborgs

Wondertwin powers, activate!

homunculus — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:40:41 -0800

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limitedpie — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 13:16:57 -0800

"What can escape the eye of God all seeing?" Milton asked. The impossibility of escape from "the eye" is often the very root of what it means to be, like Kokusai Omocha, a "cyborg." The inescapable eye fantasy powers brilliant, archetypal designs of prisons, low brow toy sales and the scourge of the Internet. 108 years ago, the fear of "the eye" induced entrepenuers to invent lead underwear to foil newly invented X-Rays from seeing too much. Today, in the name of security, these metaphors, fantasies and fears all are coming together at a few airports near you.

How much RAM would you like with your brain, sir?

zerofoks — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 01:05:03 -0800

World's first brain prosthesis revealed. Well, first hippocampus replacement at least. If this is not a dead end for science (which I doubt), I am gonna get my soul fully digitalized in 2020, then spreading it on the whole net with some new version of a code-red virus. :-)

My Father, the Cyborg

chason — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 05:18:39 -0800

The Soul of a New Machine is the title of an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the recent proliferation of cyborgs in the humanities. Growing outside of science, and inspired by science fiction, cyborgs have invaded economics, anthropology, and even philosophy. Cyborgs are indeed taking over the academic world. NASA is interested, too. In fact, NASA's Cyborg Program was based on the research of Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline. More inside...

ookamaka — Wed, 27 Mar 2002 17:56:00 -0800

Fellow DJs, it seems as though we'll soon be out of a job

Tarrama — Fri, 22 Mar 2002 01:00:54 -0800

Professor becomes world's first cyborg Surgeons have carried out a ground-breaking operation on a cybernetics professor so that his nervous system can be wired up to a computer. It is hoped that the procedure could lead to a medical breakthrough for people paralysed by spinal cord damage, like Superman actor Christopher Reeve. Prof Warwick believes it also opens up the possibility of a sci-fi world of cyborgs, where the human brain can one day be upgraded with implants for extra memory, intelligence or X-ray vision. The medical possibilities with this are amazing, so why does it make me feel so uneasy?

kramer_101 — Tue, 04 Sep 2001 05:10:29 -0800

When Bovines Attack - cool game care of Seethru

Alwin — Tue, 28 Aug 2001 21:22:15 -0800

Brain Cells Used To Make Working Semiconductor "This is the first direct functional interfacing of a living neuronal network with an electronic semiconductor chip," said co-author Dr. Peter Fromherz of the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich, Germany, in an interview with Reuters Health. "It is a further step on our road to combine the elements of brains and computers," he added.