Eventually this kind of screen-on-the-eye technology could displace the smartphone as as the dominant way people access the Internet and connect to each other.
Category: Medical Research
Thought provoking.
The rock musician, actor and performance artist Mat Fraser looks at how prosthetics have been used to improve, adapt and augment human performance.
The recent Paralympics highlighted how they can give some people near superhuman powers. But can they be considered art?
The jellyfish with the heart of a rat | Science | guardian.co.uk.
Scientist have created an artificial jellyfish that uses heart cells from a rat to propel itself though the water.
No bigger than a 1p coin, the bioengineered machine mimics the swimming style of a baby jellyfish by contracting its synthetic body into a bell shape to generate forward thrust
The fact that this is a ‘bio-engineered machine’ makes me wonder if we have moved one step closer to the reality of ‘replicants’ as presented in the SciFi of ‘Bladerunner’ (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep)?
The Cyberneticist 