tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79202332008-10-07T07:58:24.106-07:00A virtual commonplace book on the seasonal movements, habitat utilization, breeding habits and population ecology of the common <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg">cyborg</a> (<i>rapidus permuto Humanus</i>)Allison Murihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16614615759773902743noreply@blogger.comBlogger307125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7920233.post-63946708542037701292008-10-07T07:57:00.000-07:002008-10-07T07:58:24.121-07:00

AFP: Japan's 'Cyberdyne' robot suit ready for hospital: "A Japanese professor announced Tuesday he was introducing robot suits for paralysed people, helping them to walk again by detecting their next move and lifting their muscles. 'The time has come to introduce this technology to the world,' Yoshiyuki Sankai, a professor at Tsukuba University near Tokyo, announced at a news conference.

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Patrick Millard | Art:Photography Formatting Gaia is a series on how "the cycle between human beings and the natural world has been transformed into a new formation that inspires intricate modes of transmitting and receiving information. ...Human beings, technology, and nature are now all part of a congruous system of existence that is becoming more and more visible in our landscape."

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Too Human 'Heimdall' Screenshots, gameSlave: Heimdall, a 2000-year-old cybernetic human: "Heimdall’s cybernetics allows him to interface with computers and be able to assimilate data beyond human speed and comprehension. Information is quite literally placed in his mind. Heimdall is very close to ODIN, so that when Heimdall speaks, it is often taken as though ODIN as spoken it."

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AlphaGalileo.Org - the Internet-based news centre for European science, engineering and technology. "A multidisciplinary team at the University of Reading has developed a robot which is controlled by a biological brain formed from cultured neurons. This cutting edge research is the first step to examine how memories manifest themselves in the brain, and how a brain stores specific pieces of data

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Videodrone: Lloyd And Lil Wayne Celebrate Cyborg Women, "Paid In Full" This seems to be cyborgs & gender studies week. As a contrast to Hillary Clinton as scary cyborg, here we have the clichéd and impossibly luscious young boobs legs and asses celebrated by cyborg fetishists:

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An article appearing today, after Obama has officially secured his place as Democratic nominee for President of the US, has me thinking about figures of speech and how strongly evocative representations lifted from cyber-literature (fiction, film) can be. NewsBiscuit: ‘Future cyborg Clinton’ warns voters they must still choose her: "The Democrat presidential nomination contest was once again

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Updated! That Crazy TERMINATOR 4? Turns Out It Might Be A Crazy Giant Spoiler... -- Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.: Moriarty from Aint It Cool News has apparently run a huge spoiler for the ending of Terminator 4, supposedly confirmed by Devin Faraci at chud.com, who warns that, "if you read it, will ruin the movie for you. And to the best of my

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Toad research could leapfrog to new muscle model: "Science has long held that muscles behave largely like motors. Northern Arizona University researcher Kiisa Nishikawa suggests that muscle acts more like a spring. 'Existing theories don't explain how muscles shorten rapidly,' Nishikawa said. 'Muscles can only shorten to do work; they can't do work by lengthening.' A spring also can only do

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June 2008 News--The FASEB Journal "Bethesda, MD—A team of London scientists have taken a major step in making the use of artificial veins and arteries in coronary bypass grafts a reality. In a study published in the June 2008 print issue of The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org), researchers describe how they developed this artificial graft tissue by combining man-made materials with human

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ABC News: Can Robot Worms Kill Cancer? "Scientists are creating tiny mechanical 'nanoworms' that could zip through the human body like cruise missiles, finding cancerous tumors that are too small to be seen any other way. That could lead to very early detection before the cancer even begins to spread, and ultimately these tiny vehicles - 3 million times smaller than an earthworm - may be able to

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Your Lightsabers Will Make A Fine Addition To My Collection | Geekdad from Wired.com: Brad Moon at Geekdad from Wired.com posts about Lego's recently released 18" figure of the lightsaber-wielding cyborg from Star Wars, General Grievous : the Ultimate General Grievous model, complete with a split-apart chest-plate that opens to reveal Grievous' organs.

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Adam Montandon's blog: I've written previously about Adam Montandon's "eyeborg" project to help a colourblind man who can see only black and white. He's written an article that describes how he has accomplished this by mathematically transposing light waves to an audible wavelength. The software converts an average RGB value for a given sample into Hue, Saturation and Brightness. Each hue (360

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Japan's cyborg research enters the skull ::: Pink Tentacle: "Researchers at Osaka University are stepping up efforts to develop robotic body parts controlled by thought, by placing electrode sheets directly on the surface of the brain. Led by Osaka University Medical School neurosurgery professor Toshiki Yoshimine, the research marks Japan’s first foray into invasive (i.e. requiring open-skull

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Become a Cyborg, Step 1 - the Digital Tattoo Interface | unwir3d: "One of the more notable (and creepy) entries at the Greener Gadgets Design Competition 2008 was the Digital Tattoo Interface. Conceptualized by Jim Mielke, the device is basically an implanted, bio-powered mobile phone. Imagine hearing a ring and rather than reaching for your pocket you roll up your sleeve and press a dot on your

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DISCOVER.com Science, Technology and The Future: "Bad at remembering names? What if all you had to do to remind yourself was center a crosshair on a person’s face and his name-perhaps even his Facebook profile-would pop into your field of view? Engineers at the University of Washington have pushed our technologically primitive world closer to this Terminator-esque dream of augmented reality:

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Double amputee walks again due to Bluetooth - CNN.com: "Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Bleill lost both his legs above the knees when a bomb exploded under his Humvee while on patrol in Iraq on October 15, 2006. He has 32 pins in his hip and a 6-inch screw holding his pelvis together." Now, he's starting to walk again with the help of prosthetic legs outfitted with Bluetooth technology more commonly

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Cyborg Hybrids brings two worlds together - Queen's Journal: Here's a playful look at stereotypes and cyborgs: "Drawing on Donna Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto, in which Harroway describes cyborgs as people living in a technological world free of the limitations of gender and race, Adams uses part of the philosophy to create a modern vision of aboriginal people in Canada, who are part of the future

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Establishment of a fabrication method for a long-term actuated hybrid cell robo..... (DOI: 10.1039/b705367c) A collaboration between scientists at the Nano-Bio Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology in Korea, the School of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University in Korea, The Whitaker Institute for Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland

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scans_daily: Tales of the Sinestro Corps Presents: Cyborg Superman #1 (Possibly NSFW):

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MIT develops brain-to-machine algorithm | Tech news blog - CNET News.com: "Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Wednesday that they've developed an algorithm for a neural prosthetic aid that can link an individual's brain activity to the person's intentions; and then translate that intention into movement. Of course, other scientists have already done that, and built

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GENEART Presents The Industrial Production Of Genes, Gene Libraries and Genomes At The Biotechnica "Regensburg, October 02, 2007 - GENEART AG, as the global leader in the gene synthesis market and specialist in the synthetic biology sector, presents the industrial production of synthetic genes, gene libraries and entire genomes at the Biotechnica in Hannover (Germany). From October 09 to 11,

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I am creating artificial life, declares US gene pioneer | Science | The Guardian: Life is no longer read-only: "Mr Venter said he had carried out an ethical review before completing the experiment. 'We feel that this is good science,' he said. He has further heightened the controversy surrounding his potential breakthrough by applying for a patent for the synthetic bacterium. Pat Mooney,

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Investor's Business Daily: Original Cyborg Warwick Firmly On Cutting Edge: "Warwick has partnered this year with Tipu Aziz, a professor of neurosurgery at the University of Oxford. They're developing a kind of pacemaker device to control the tremors and pain caused by Parkinson's disease. The two already have devised a system to deliver constant electrical pulses to block such pain. Now they want

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Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Research News 10-2007-Topic 3 Artificial corneas will mean we no longer have to wait for donor corneas. “Our artificial corneas are based on a commercially available polymer which absorbs no water and allows no cells to grow on it,” says IAP project manager Dr. Joachim Storsberg. “Once our partner Dr. Schmidt Intraokularlinsen GmbH has suitably shaped the polymers, we

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Wired News - AP News: "HATOYAMA, Japan (AP) -- Forget the clicker: A new technology in Japan could let you control electronic devices without lifting a finger simply by reading brain activity. The 'brain-machine interface' developed by Hitachi Inc. analyzes slight changes in the brain's blood flow and translates brain motion into electric signals. A cap connects by optical fibers to a

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