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

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…

Video: Glucose-sensing lens

This Alphabet (formerly Google) designed  contact lens prototype  looks like any other contact lens on the market, except tiny antennae run rings around the outside of the lens. They are connected to a tiny sensor that can measure glucose levels found in the wearer’s tears once every second. That information can then be…

Video: The Archimedes Screw

From Chapter 4 of the book Super You – p.131 In the 1980s, physician inventor Rich Wampler visited Egypt and witnessed local workers using a hand-turned Archimedes screw to pump water up a river bank for irrigation. He realized that if a screw could move water against gravity, perhaps it could move blood against pressure.