Were getting closer to a human/cyborg every day. We will probably have one by the end of the decade: http://site.daftgadgets.com/blog1/cyborg-creating-a-modern-day-human-robot/
Bionic lungs and bladders were the first step. Later this year, an unnamed Italian man will be getting a robotic, thought-controlled hand that can actually feel:
Dr Micera said that the hand will be attached directly to the patient's nervous system via electrodes clipped onto two of the arm's main nerves, the median and the ulnar nerves.This should allow the man to control the hand by his thoughts, as well as receiving sensory signals to his brain from the hand's sensors. It will effectively provide a fast, bidirectional flow of information between the man's nervous system and the prosthetic hand...
The plan is for the patient to wear the bionic hand for a month to see how he adapts to the artificial limb. If all goes well, a full working model will be ready for testing within two years, Dr Micera said.
Earlier versions of the hand had only two sensors, while this version has them in the fingertips, palm and wrist. If he needs to wield a lightsaber again, the man may well be able to do it Skywalker style.
But what if he's less Luke Skywalker in his interests, and more...uh-huh-huh...Beavis? Because Beavis likes to touch things. You'd want to be careful about an error in the grip circuits, though.
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"Luke Skywalker's Bionic Hand is Closer Than You Think"... is this a contest? Is it Things Mark Hamill has said in bed?
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Gross part of Luke's replacement hand get glossed over. He lost his hand, right, but look at that image...they had to gut his forearm and insert mechanical junk. 2-1B probably took more of Luke's flesh than Vader did.
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I give it less than a year before Japan has a version that keeps the sensors but replaces the hand with an Ona-hole shaped like a minature little girl.
By the end of the year Japan will have a version that keeps the sensors but replaces the hand with an Onahole modeled like a little doll.
By the end of the next year Japan will be fighting an epidemic of "cosmetic" right hand amputations.
Wtf, I wrote this hours ago but wasn't logged in and it got lost ... came back to correctly post a rewrite and now this shows up.
Who plays soccer with pick-ups? You'd need a big field and what about the ball? Is it regular sized or bigger?
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I read the headline and immediately thought Luke was hiding behind a dark corner about to grab me.
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I hope that the feeling sensors are easy to cutoff. I'd be more worried that the signal going to my nerves would feedback and a constant pain to the hand I don't have.
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I want a bionic penis. They can make it bigger, stronger, faster...well, maybe not faster, but definitely bigger and stronger!
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@TheWalkingDon I always found the description for the Mr Stud implant amusing, "...all night every night and she'll never know..."
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I fear the day once the machines revolt, this hand (and its dexterity) will become sentient and be responsible for untold carnage.
The blood is on your (bionic) hands, Dr. Mircera! The blood is on your hands!
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@TheConjurerOfCheapTricks Maybe this is the hand that was predicted in T2? Now to storm the Italian office of Cyberdyne Systems.
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30 years of Cyberpunk and te first reference you can think of is Luke's cyber hand? srsly?
@LYT @netdragon693 I do realize, but post-humanism is only a theme since cyberpunk, in SW is treated as taint from the dark side, 2 different things RLY
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@LYT @netdragon693 if we accept that fact then it's a lot harder to be in denial about the prequels
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getting closer to my full cyborg conversion all the time - if only I can live long enough
