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Video: Artificial sight is possible for the blind: Soon it will be augmented sight for you

Video: Artificial sight is possible for the blind: Soon it will be augmented sight for you

Published by Andy Walker on July 19, 2016

How long before we bypass our mobile screen and pipe augmented reality directly into the retina or human brain so we can see it without a smartphone? The following is a blurb from Chapter 6 Franken-You: A Better Life Through Cyborg Technology of the book Super You on page 282. This more »

Franken-fish: Scientists bio-print an artificial stingray from rat heart cells

Franken-fish: Scientists bio-print an artificial stingray from rat heart cells

Published by Andy Walker on July 13, 2016

Can you create life on a printer? You can now. Scientists have created hybrid-life by engineering rat heart cells on a gold skeleton to create a beast that swims like a stingray. You could call it a “raybot”. This half animal, half machine can be guided through an obstacle course with more »