you were there when it happened

[gravitas_shortfall]

Bionic limbs controlled by thought are now officially working without additional disfiguring surgery. So far they can move, and feel strokes and temperature; the next versions will include more precise tactile feedback. For some reason it didn't make the front page news, but I'll be cynical another day.

How fucking amazing is that?

Comments

[ramonaramone.livejournal.com]

Hi! Yes i thought i might like some bionic limbs for those hang-over days. Can you imagine being able to get around by thought power alone? BUT....Can you imagine what might happen if you couldn't control your thoughts??Say if you got angry and felt like hitting someone - would the limbs hit the person before you thought the better of it? What about if you were supposed to be going to work , but you didn't really want to , you wanted to go to somewhere else instead - where would the bionic limbs take you if you had inner conflict????!!!!xx Ramonaramone

[joe-joe-monco.livejournal.com]

The $60,000 Woman had a front page photo in the Telegraph on Friday.
Apparently she has a small patch of skin above her left breast where the surgeons re-routed her nerves,that feels to her like her hand.
"Any sufficently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Arthur C Clarke 1961
As you said,fucking amazing.
PS Still up for Scotland but can't commit as yet.

[acclog.livejournal.com]

I want to control someone *else's* limbs by the power of thought...

[lucylle.livejournal.com]

Read it yesterday and thought: "what about ADDING limbs instead?"
I could really use that extra arm right now....

[the-bearded-one.livejournal.com]

I'm waiting for a prehensile tail...