[QUOTE=carcarcargo;29895608]You're going to knock everyone's iphones and shit out as well, that's not good :saddowns:[/QUOTE]
Androids wouldn't dream of using iOS
[QUOTE=Zeke129;29895622]Androids wouldn't dream of using iOS[/QUOTE]
Touché
[QUOTE=Zeke129;29895622]Androids wouldn't dream of using iOS[/QUOTE]
:golfclap:[QUOTE=carcarcargo;29895577]Well I doubt robot arms would be all that light (at least if you want them to be useful) so you'd probably need the work done on your back any way[/QUOTE]
Wouldn't be that heavy if it made mostly of plastics and cables, current motorised prosthetics don't need much in the way of supporting either.
[QUOTE=Nerts;29895686]:golfclap:
Wouldn't be that heavy if it made mostly of plastics and cables, current motorised prosthetics don't need much in the way of supporting either.[/QUOTE]
Well if I'm going to augment myself I might as well improve the rest of my body while I'm at it. Were's the fun in having a mechanical arm if you can't lift shit with it
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;29895715]Well if I'm going to augment myself I might as well improve the rest of my body while I'm at it. Were's the fun in having a mechanical arm if you can't lift shit with it[/QUOTE]
Strength doesn't mean much out side of moving stuff and showing off, knowledge however, my good man, is power.
Bioaugmentation for nonmedical reasons always struck me as horridly unethical. Something seems wrong about it, besides the fact that it'll inevitably lead to mass eugenics conflicts.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;29816017]If governments pour money into this kind of shit we can get this even faster.
Hence a very powerful centralised technocracy is very much required if we are to do this quickly.[/QUOTE]
But the politicians of today are afraid of these things, that is why we don't have full access to stem cell research and such.
[QUOTE=Nerts;29895753]Strength doesn't mean much out side of moving stuff and showing off, knowledge however, my good man, is power.[/QUOTE]
Then get brain augmentations.
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;29896348]Then get brain augmentations.[/QUOTE]
Would love to, but minor limb alterations are all I'm going to be able to get for a fair few years.
If I'm going to get augmentations I want them to be useful, I'm not replacing limbs with mechanical ones that are less efficient.
If I could get hold of some simple surgical tools or whatever it is vets use to do it to dogs, I probably [i]would[/i] have put a RFID chip in me somewhere and got a interrogator for it by now. :v:
I would be happy with getting replacement eyes, I fucking hate glasses and contacts.
Well that depends on what artificial eyes are used for.
The thing is that if there is a cheaper technology that works just as well, we'll go for that. It's more than likely that biological stuff to repair the eye rather than replace it will become the more common one as it is cheaper and easier than rigging up all the nerves to the new eye. For civilian stuff where you just need 20-20 vision, that's likely to be the only thing covered by your health care.
For people like soldiers or pilots of sports umpires where they need especially good vision, they'll be covered a bit better and it would look good on a resume to say you have artificially heightened sight. Hard to see them doing it for every soldier or pilot if it's too costly but they would certainly subsidise it if you wanted to use your own cash.
This is in the more recent future though, things could change and artificial eyes become the easiest solution, then they'd probably get better. Long time until that occurs though.
Quick, what would I need to cram in to where right now to make myself a compass?
4 or more little nodes implanted preferably in your leg. Mini compasses are pretty simple, would be easier to use a microcontroller instead of an IC, maybe a PLC to control it, something to generate a current, a small battery and a solenoid so you can create a magnetic field to charge the battery. Should detect north and give a current or little tingling feeling in that direction. Might need to be charged with a magnetic leg band occasionally.
I'd love to have a small LED(sorry if that's stupid, it's the smallest light producing thing I know of) in my wrist, and when pressure is applied near it (to a small sensor) it would blink a number of times to show hours (4 blinks, 4 o'clock). Great part is, where I live, we don't use daylight savings time.
I'd also love another small motor somewhere connected to another sensor that would vibrate(when turned on) at different levels, until I got really close to my wallet.
The LED might be a pain to get through your skin, I'm not sure how transparent it is. The pressure sensor might be difficult to calibrate and I can't think of a small pressure sensor off hand, probably one exists. Other than that, a small microcontroller would be easiest to have a clock and you would want the standard battery and inductor so you can recharge it with an electromagnetic magnetic band.
I dunno how you would turn it on, maybe RFID tags if you can get readers small enough. Would be better if instead of a motor it was an electric current that pulsed depending on the distance to the target. I doubt you could get a good sized transmitter to detect it so it would need to receive and the thing you are detecting would need to have a battery and transmitter that it could pick up and pulse depending on it's signal strength.
Aren't they thinking of using fiberoptics for this kind of stuff. Although to be honest if they do manage I'm going to wait until they can use a more reliable method.
[QUOTE=Thunderbolt;29890629]Even though I'm all for augmentation, there's always the problem of malfunctioning hardware
I'll let this nawlz strip explain it all:
[img_thumb]http://i.solidfiles.net/a99a.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]
Oh man! Nawlz is fuggin awesome!
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;29924265]Aren't they thinking of using fiberoptics for this kind of stuff. Although to be honest if they do manage I'm going to wait until they can use a more reliable method.[/QUOTE]
Fiberoptics for what, the LED or the communication?
Really though, you would wait for a more reliable method for all of this. This is high experimentation with the current technology because no-one has developed for it before. Everything comes on a PCB which you can't exactly place subcutaneously. Good chance as it gets more advanced, stuff like decent, rechargeable power supplies, microcontrollers which don't have all the fluff current ones do and other kits will be available.
Think of this like the primitive computers, absurdly oversized and difficult compared to modern tech, those kind of developments should come to this field.
[QUOTE=catbarf;29799995]Meh. I think people are too excited by the novelty of having their gear with them all the time. Currently you can carry around a pair of earbuds, and when they break, you can replace them for a couple bucks. What do you do when the surgically implanted version starts rusting or failing? We're talking major invasive brain surgery with significant risk of infection or other damage (not to mention a HUGE bill), for a minimal increase in convenience.[/QUOTE]
I am pretty sure they don't use rusting metal, even today's standards, my mother for example, has a meal plate in her shoulder, is that cybernetics? No, but my point is that she has a metal part in her body, it has not become rusty in I think, the 10-20 years she has had it. Obviously the technology for this kind of stuff would be so advanced that it wouldn't rust to begin with.
[QUOTE=Devodiere;29924315]Fiberoptics for what, the LED or the communication?
Really though, you would wait for a more reliable method for all of this. This is high experimentation with the current technology because no-one has developed for it before. Everything comes on a PCB which you can't exactly place subcutaneously. Good chance as it gets more advanced, stuff like decent, rechargeable power supplies, microcontrollers which don't have all the fluff current ones do and other kits will be available.
Think of this like the primitive computers, absurdly oversized and difficult compared to modern tech, those kind of developments should come to this field.[/QUOTE]
I really don't want to buy an augmentation only to find theres a massively improved one a few years down the line.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;29805949]This kind of shit is going to create an even bigger rift between the rich and poor and basically destroy human society so I'm p. glad I'll be dead before it hits the mainstream[/QUOTE]
I got money so it's okay.
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;29924378]I really don't want to buy an augmentation only to find theres a massively improved one a few years down the line.[/QUOTE]
I meant more of a comparison between old technology purifying rather than the march towards the singularity. Don't worry, unless you buy Apple cybernetics. For things that provide a service like headphones, direction, additional sense inputs, they don't seem likely to go outdated any more than external headphones.
What are the possibilities that when human augmentation comes through, they will install tracking devices in the augmentation?
If you want a tracking device then you could get one. Some countries might legislate you need one, others like most western ones are too rebellious and it wouldn't pass at all.
Of course you could also have ID tags instead of a license, credit card and all those other things. Would work like it but only if you checked in at certain places. Too small of signal to track you everywhere so it's only when you are within a certain area or pass through a gate or use a bit of tech with ID tag reading.
Just a development of the information age, we have discussions like this over tracking devices in iPhones nowadays.
[QUOTE=Devodiere;29924476]If you want a tracking device then you could get one. Some countries might legislate you need one, others like most western ones are too rebellious and it wouldn't pass at all.
Of course you could also have ID tags instead of a license, credit card and all those other things. Would work like it but only if you checked in at certain places. Too small of signal to track you everywhere so it's only when you are within a certain area or pass through a gate or use a bit of tech with ID tag reading.
Just a development of the information age, we have discussions like this over tracking devices in iPhones nowadays.[/QUOTE]
I hope that there will be hackers who will find ways to disable such installations.
No doubt but they would be normal things like people in a public office, entering a venue, paying for things, basic stuff that you can use your ID for. I doubt the cops care where you are at all times, it gives you an alibi for where you were at any time, and most of all the cops would require the same legal warrant to get the information from private holders. It's not that bad.
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;29924378]I really don't want to buy an augmentation only to find theres a massively improved one a few years down the line.[/QUOTE]
Then you're going to have to not buy one at all :v:
[QUOTE=Nerts;29926077]Then you're going to have to not buy one at all :v:[/QUOTE]
Well at least until they can make it possible for continuous upgrade any way.
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