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6 Strange Body Hacks That Are Actually Useful
The human body has the potential for amazing feats, but it also has built-in limitations — we can't hear certain tones, we see a limited range of colors, and we can't feel magnetic and electrical...
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It's Time To Embrace Our Inevitable Future As Cyborgs
In 1929, prosthetics were still rudimentary devices, the idea that brainwaves could be recorded was met with ridicule, and what we would come to think of as "bionics" were many decades away.But John...
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This Scientist Is Creating The Perfect Pancreas To Treat His Son’s Diabetes
David Damiano would have died before his first birthday if it weren't for modern medicine.David received a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes at 11 months old. His pancreas stopped producing insulin, the...
View ArticleThis real-life cyborg has an antenna implanted into his skull
Subscribe to BI: Tech on YouTubeArtist Neil Harbisson was born completely color blind and sees the world in grayscale. But even though Neil can't see color doesn't mean he can't sense it. That's...
View ArticleThese bionic suits are changing the lives of people who never thought they'd...
Retired Army sergeant Theresa Hannigan lost the use of her legs as a result of her time in the service. More than seven years ago, Matthew Tilford suffered a spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed...
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A quadriplegic woman flew an F-35 simulator with her mind
Jan Scheuermann, a quadriplegic and pioneering patient for an experimental Pentagon robotics program, continues to break ground in freeing the mind from the body.The 55-year-old mother of two in 2012...
View ArticleWatch this paralyzed woman pick up a cup with her mind
Worldwide, 6 million people suffer from paralysis, which robs them of their ability to move and sometimes to speak.But what if people who are paralyzed could control prosthetic limbs just by thinking?...
View ArticleThis real-life cyborg can hear color
Artist Neil Harbisson was born completely color blind and sees the world in grayscale. But even though Neil can't see color doesn't mean he can't sense it. That's because Neil Harbisson is a cyborg who...
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Here's what happened when scientists gave blind people a 'bionic eye'
For people with the incurable genetic eye disorder retinitis pigmentosa, the world can be a dark place. Genetic mutations cause their photoreceptors, the cells in the retina at the back of the eye that...
View ArticleThese scientists have engineered a new, lightweight bionic hand
Engineers at Saarland University have designed a bionic hand that could pave the way to prosthetic limbs that feel and function much more like natural ones. The design uses thin strands of...
View ArticleThis real-life cyborg has an antenna implanted into his skull
Artist Neil Harbisson was born completely color blind and sees the world in grayscale. But even though Neil can't see color doesn't mean he can't sense it. That's because Neil Harbisson is a cyborg who...
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This startup wants to 'resurrect' dead people by turning their personalities...
You know you're talking with a futurist when death isn't described as an inconvenient fact of life, but a problem to be solved. Josh Bocanegra, the 25-year-old cofounder of Humai Technology, is one...
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A 25-year-old scientist has an incredible bionic arm that can charge a phone...
James Young, a 25-year-old biological scientist in London, may just have the coolest bionic arm out there.Young lost his arm and leg when he fell under a train in a freak accident in 2012, which left...
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A researcher developed bionic skin that can give robots a sense of touch
Takao Someya, an electrical engineering professor at the University of Tokyo, has been developing bionic skin since 2003.Dubbed one of the "Best Inventions of 2005" by Time Magazine, the e-skin at the...
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Harvard scientists created a 'bionic leaf' that's better at converting the...
Researchers at Harvard University have created a system that allows them to store the energy of the sun, converting solar energy into chemical energy using a hybrid mechanism of inorganic chemistry and...
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The 'bionic Olympics' offers a glimpse of our enhanced future
Not many athletes compete in mind-controlled computer games. Next month, however, more than fifty teams from around the world will meet near Zurich, Switzerland, to demonstrate their skills in...
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Behold the 6 events at the world's first 'bionic Olympics'
On Saturday October 8, more than 70 competitors from 25 countries will assemble in Zurich, Switzerland to compete in the world's first bionic Olympics — a gauntlet of grueling events collectively known...
View ArticleA cat that lost his back legs can now walk again after vets fitted him with...
A cat which lost both its legs in a car accident has now been able to walk again, thanks to some groundbreaking surgery by vets in Bulgaria.The cat, named Pooh, has been fitted with two bionic feet.The...
View Article7 amazing technologies we'll see by 2030
Hollywood's depictions of the future are usually pretty far-fetched — like the flying cars of "Blade Runner" and the hoverboards in "Back to the Future II." The World Economic forum surveyed over 800...
View ArticleThese bionic arms make kids feel like superheroes
This company is changing the way we see prostheses. Open Bionics is a UK-based start-up tech company. Its mission is to create affordable 3D printed prostheses. They are about 30 times cheaper than...
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