Saturday, June 25, 2011 - 8:02am
Do you want to play the violin, but can't be bothered to learn how? Then strap on this electric finger stimulator called PossessedHand that makes your fingers move with no input from your own brain.
Cyborg stories
Thursday, July 8, 2010 - 12:50pm
Got a blind spot? The FDA has just approved an Implantable Miniature Telescope, designed to restore eyesight to sufferers of blind spots due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The pea-sized telescope fixes that problem by projecting images onto an undamaged part of the retina.
Sunday, April 11, 2010 - 8:30am
Most of us grow up thinking that clean water is good, while polluted water is bad, but that's only because we approach these things from a human perspective. Just as plants rely on the carbon dioxide that we breathe out,...
Friday, March 19, 2010 - 7:58am
Artificial body parts are here today, but they still have a long way to go before they can rival our original equipment. As the movie Repo Men reminds us, total body replacement is on the way, but in the meantime,...
Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 7:43am
Should robots ever work up the nerve to actually try to take over the planet, they'll have to do better than this. A curious young man decided to sic his robotic arm (a standalone arm — he's not a cyborg...
Friday, September 25, 2009 - 12:13pm
Yep. You read that right: cyborg beetles. Remote controlled ones, no less. It's the work of a team of puppet masters over at UC Berkley, who have successfully wired up beetles with electrodes that allow them to be controlled remotely....
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 12:38pm
While prosthetic limbs are common, real cyborgs remain in the realm of science fiction. That's because the trickiest part — creating a reliable brain-machine interface (BMI) — is a tough job, since we don't fully understand how the brain works....
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Friday, December 5, 2008 - 2:12pm
One way researchers are trying to restore the ability to speak for those who have lost — or never had — the capability is by translating neural signals into sounds and sentences. In other words, if you think of...
Thursday, August 7, 2008 - 3:23pm
Oscar Pistorius isn't competing in this year's Olympics, and that's a good thing. In case you missed it, Pistorius is the double-amputee sprinter who occasionally has carbon-fiber artificial limbs stand in for his missing lower legs. His amazing Cheetah...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 10:22am
Houseplants not your thing? You still might want to take a look at the work of Ryan Wolfe, which merges technology and plants in ways that are both thought-provoking and… well, pretty cool-looking. One project, called "Study for Lit...
