10 Human Functions We've Already Handed Over To The Machines [Tgif]
One idea behind a "cyborg life" is that we look to machines to take on critical, physical roles. These 10 machines illustrate how we have already begun passing the torch on tasks we are getting to lazy to do ourselves. Remember handwriting? We have all...

Meat Band-Aids and Mass Production of Living Tissue [This Cyborg Life]
I'm touching a wet slab of protein, what feels like a paper-thin slice of bologna. It's supple, slimy, but unlike meat, if you were to slice it down the center today, tomorrow the wound would heal. It's factory-grown living tissue. The company behind...

The Enhanced Human, SkyMall Style [Gadgets]
I am ashamed of two things. 1) That in our quest for the cyborg life, we were beaten to the punch by SkyMall, and 2) that none of the following products are fake. Let's just get this first one out of the way: Not only does the Head Spa Massager look...

Racing on Carbon Fiber Legs: How Abled Should We Be? [Aimee Mullins]
One Olympic swimmer has a D-cup breast size. From a physiological standpoint, she's at a disadvantage to a swimmer who's an A-cup. If she amputated her breasts to become more streamlined, would we consider her crazy, or worse, a cheater? The Amazons,...

Normal Was Never Cool: Inception of Perception [Aimee Mullins]
Last year I met a beautiful five-year-old child, who had been born with neurofibramatosis (NF), causing her left leg to have extremely brittle bones. For nearly the first year of her life, her parents and doctors were unaware of the NF, and the...

10 iPhone Apps To Augment Your Sad Reality [IPhone Apps]
Augmented reality. It's definitely a buzz phrase, but what is it, exactly? How do you experience it? Is there an app for it? Oh, most definitely. Here are 10. True to their title, augmented reality apps add something to what you see, using a combination...

Digital Tattoo Interface Turns Your Skin Into A Display [This Cyborg Life]
There are implants which are purely aesthetic, and then there's the Digital Tattoo Interface concept. It's a blood-powered electronic interface which is embedded under skin to mimic a tattoo, display videos, or act as a phone or computer. As great as...

Digital Tattoo Interface Turns Your Skin Into A Display [This Cyborg Life]
There are implants which are purely aesthetic, and then there's the Digital Tattoo Interface concept. It's a blood-powered electronic interface which is embedded under skin to mimic a tattoo, display videos, or act as a phone or computer. As great as...

Digital Tattoo Interface Turns Your Skin Into A Display [This Cyborg Life]
There are implants which are purely aesthetic, and then there's the Digital Tattoo Interface concept. It's a blood-powered electronic interface which is embedded under skin to mimic a tattoo, display videos, or act as a phone or computer. As great as...

Digital Tattoo Interface Turns Your Skin Into A Display [This Cyborg Life]
There are implants which are purely aesthetic, and then there's the Digital Tattoo Interface concept. It's a blood-powered electronic interface which is embedded under skin to mimic a tattoo, display videos, or act as a phone or computer. As great as...

Gadget Singularity: Let's Ditch Our Buttons and Screens Forever [User Interface]
The past decade's march towards better gadgets shows a trend line pointing towards ultra powerful gadgets with UIs so seamless, they make Macs look like a punchcard computers. But if you think about it, we—not hardware—are the limitation. Besides...