Comments on: 12 Emerging Technologies For Voluntary Cyborgs

By: 6 pack abs diet

6 pack abs diet — Wed, 11 May 2011 22:17:38 +0000

Wow that was strange. I just wrote an extremely long comment but after I clicked submit my comment didn’t appear. Grrrr… well I’m not writing all that over again. Regardless, just wanted to say great blog!

By: Rook

Rook — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:05:19 +0000

why not support it if,it is better way for life and development of mankind? untill we take few evolutionary steps how can we predit the world to change.

By: Dan Beames

Dan Beames — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:52:10 +0000

Looks like people have already cleared the teleportation thing up. Just to say that quantum teleportation and what is usually understood by ‘teleportation’ have nothing to do with each other. Needless to say, at the moment there is no real theory that is believed to make teleportation possible.

And to Matt – You say it’s hard for vets to get artificial limbs. The article says soldiers. Not the same thing. I’m sure that the military spends more on people who actually still work for them.

Very cool article though, I have to say the only one I’m a bit wary of is the teleporting one.

By: neuro

neuro — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:25:59 +0000

I want a cure for deafness, and I am aware of the latest developments. The latest information I find interesting in this forum

http://www.alldeaf.com/hearing-aids-cochlear-implants/68345-cbr-center-regenerative-medicine-looking-children-under-age-18-months.html

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:18:57 +0000

I’d be afraid of teleporting actually. All logic considered, to replicate your body else where, you’d have to merge new things to create a new being or process your already dispersed molecules to said new location. Being able to piece that back together is a little upsetting, because with a new copy of you, you’d be essentially dead. You’re current thoughts and everything would be no more, as your copy took over your life. Also, if you could send your original molecules, what is the chance that your current consciousness would stay intact when pieced back together?

I think I’ll walk to where I need to go, thanks.

By: Johnny Miller

Johnny Miller — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:13:27 +0000

like Carl Sagan said we can use technology to destroy ourselves or we can use it to carry us.

peace
Johnny

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:44:32 +0000

I don’t believe that the C Leg is the US military’s choice for its soldier’s. Ive seen to many documentaries and articles about how much of a struggle it is for any disabled vet to get a crappy plastic prosthetic limb paid for by our government.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:25:14 +0000

“i highly doubt that the bionic ear will give you better hearing than normal. if it is indeed an implant into the cochlea, the implantation procedure will damage what normal hearing you have.”

The connection will most likely go straight to the brain, there’s no need to attach it to the ear.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:24:31 +0000

“i highly doubt that the bionic ear will give you better hearing than normal. if it is indeed an implant into the cochlea, the implantation procedure will damage what normal hearing you have.”

The connection will most likely go straight to the brain, there’s no need to attach it to the ear.

By: Russell

Russell — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:41:17 +0000

Honestly, some of you so-called tech-expert dweebs are so wrapped up in “this isnt possible” and “that will never work”. In 100 years time you will looked upon like the idiots that thought people would suffocate on trains if they went faster than 40 miles an hour. Try to have some magnificence in your soul, dare to dream, be creative and attempt to inspire the new generation to turn science fiction into a reality. If it was up to people like you we would still be stuck in the dark ages.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:52:16 +0000

We were promised flying cars and suits made of aluminum foil too. What happened?

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:23:57 +0000

I agree with James. The only way that it would be able to surpass the human ear as such is if the current ear was already damaged, but only the eardrum. It might be that this aural implant would be able to connect directly with the nervous system, potentially allowing for people to “hear” sounds in frequency ranges formally too low or high.

By: Mich De Lorme

Mich De Lorme — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:21:20 +0000

Cool stuff folks Thanks

By: Fergus Riche

Fergus Riche — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:59:45 +0000

The diving vest won’t work, I’m afraid; if it only filters out pure oxygen [which it would only be able to do if there are no additional tanks, which would bring you back to the starting point], as 100% oxygen becomes toxic after breathing for over two hours, a limit which can be surpassed using recreational diving equipment easily. Besides, pure oxygen becomes toxic at over 10 metres’ depth, rendering the whole setup rather useless. Even if these problems did not exist, I am sure that anybody would want to check this device just as much as regular scuba gear prior to a dive, as they are entrusting a machine with their ability to breathe.

By: JCdenton

JCdenton — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:19:06 +0000

False. No such tech exist. Internet 1 will now mysterious end.

By: Emil

Emil — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:56:51 +0000

Argh. Apostrophes! Eat sentence fragment!

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:25:05 +0000

Sorry Phil, you’re completely wrong. A cochlear implant has an electrode inserted into the cochlear. The nerve is not severed in any situation. For some devices (long electrode) they do destroy residual hearing. This is NOT due to nerve damage, it is due to the electrode rupturing the basilar membrane of the cochlear. There are also short electrode devices that do not destroy residual hearing. Neither are as good or better than natural hearing. I am an expert.

By: Nothing to do with Eric

Nothing to do with Eric — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:11:19 +0000

So, Eric…. James is indeed a knowledgable with correct information.
How does it feel to be the doubting thomas !

By: Larry the Dwarf

Larry the Dwarf — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:57:38 +0000

The breathing device would require a massive amount of power to get anywhere close to equaling regular compressed air tank.

And your time underwater would still be limited by the excess nitrogen that builds up in your blood while diving.

By: robb

robb — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:06:34 +0000

damn these are just awesome.
i’d like teleportation, please.

By: Physicist

Physicist — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:37:55 +0000

No, there wouldn’t be a perfect copy of yourself. That’d require to obtain the _exact_ information about the location and impulse of every particle in a body. Look up Heisenberg and you’ll see it’s not possible.

Nevertheless, quantum teleportion and quantum cryptography will be very handy for communication.

And from a more human point of view.. even if it WOULD be possible to teleport a human being.. the teleported body would die. You would die. Sure, if there’s enough matter and energy on the other end to build you up again you’ll have a copy but let’s just say.. it wouldn’t be the most pleasant mode of transport.

Psychological trauma included.

By: Druckles

Druckles — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:27:08 +0000

“It’s more the teleportation of information or states; it has nothing to do with making something go instantly from one place to another.”

When you look at things as a whole, that’s technically what the average consensus of teleportation would be. ‘Walking’ is not the same as ‘moving limbs’, but if you perform the latter in the right way, it’s viewed as it. Plus a perfect copy of yourself is, by definition, you. Hell, it’d be more you than the you in a week’s time.

By: Mark 2100

Mark 2100 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:27:04 +0000

When I take over the world (which is only a matter of time) bionic enhancements will become commonplace. Even for people with no prior need for enhancement. The first Olympic Games under my tyranny will be spectacular! Runners who speed past the pace car. High jumpers who need oxygen tanks because of the altitudes they reach. And shotput throwers who don’t throw the shot, but fire it from the cannon implanted in their chests. I can hardly wait.

By: Mohmed

Mohmed — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:49:33 +0000

We, the great nation of Saudi Arabia, already have access to these new technologies.

Stupid infidels.

By: Russell

Russell — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:26:54 +0000

I think the point of these technologies is not the current state they are in, which to the average Joe 30 years ago would have seemed like science fiction, it is that the march of progress will only lead to better things. In another 30 years time will the bionic ear be better than a real one, will we be able to actually teleport a grain of rice, will military body armour be a t-shirt printed with “Frankie Says Relax”, probably. Needless to say none of these technologies will regress and get worse.