Man Chooses to Swap Disabled Hand for Bionic Replacement

[Jandau]

And a few years later we're living in the world from Ghost in the Shell...

 

[Scott Guthrie]

make sure to practice on a sausage so you don't rip your dick off :L

 

[T-Bone24]

I'm assuming that he won't have any feeling in the badass bionic hand? Please tell me they are giving him gadgets.

Also, super-strength? Get to work, science.

 

[mdkcde]

In the future, gamers will no longer fear that amputation will forbid them to play videogames.

I can certainly see Pro's willingly cutthing their hands off, once these devices are more capable than your Mark I hands.

 

[Kopikatsu]

In the future, gamers will no longer fear that amputation will forbid them to play videogames.

I can certainly see Pro's willingly cutthing their hands off, once these devices are more capable than your Mark I hands.

It's probably really pathetic, but I've always been terrified of having something happen to my hands/arms for this very reason.

But my legs? Eh, you can have those.

 

[kayisking]

In the future, gamers will no longer fear that amputation will forbid them to play videogames.

I can certainly see Pro's willingly cutthing their hands off, once these devices are more capable than your Mark I hands.

It's probably really pathetic, but I've always been terrified of having something happen to my hands/arms for this very reason.

But my legs? Eh, you can have those.

I'm with you right there, since I also play piano. I would probably off myself if I lost my hands.

 

[iniudan]

This is so cool, and not just a guy regaining use of his hand! I'd totally get one of those, but I have full use of my hands. Seriously, how is bionic augmentation not the most awesome thing we could do with our bodies? Somebody please invent bionic eyes...I'm kinda sick of having to wear glasses and only being able to see between ~450-750nm.

That's what laser eye surgery is for.

About $3000 per eye, and it won't do anything about that limited range. I want to see in the IR-UV range, damnit!

Damn that expensive where you live, here in Canada the maximum it can cost is 3500$ for the two eye (that the one for those with slim cornea or eye irregularity who cannot get the normal laser surgery).

 

[Kaytastrophe]

And so it begins.


I think it will be about 2015 or 2020 before we see full-on replaced limbs with prosthetic ones that have the same or better range of movement than that of our natural appendages.


Might be not until 2040 though when we can finally get a full body replacement though, but baby steps before running a marathon.

And in 2022 it will actually be entertaining to watch the paralympics! Yeah, I went there.

 

[thethingthatlurks]

This is so cool, and not just a guy regaining use of his hand! I'd totally get one of those, but I have full use of my hands. Seriously, how is bionic augmentation not the most awesome thing we could do with our bodies? Somebody please invent bionic eyes...I'm kinda sick of having to wear glasses and only being able to see between ~450-750nm.

That's what laser eye surgery is for.

About $3000 per eye, and it won't do anything about that limited range. I want to see in the IR-UV range, damnit!

Damn that expensive where you live, here in Canada the maximum it can cost is 3500$ for the two eye (that the one for those with slim cornea or eye irregularity who cannot get the normal laser surgery).

I know there's a range of prices depending on the exact type of operation, but I've never seen anything for less than $2000 per eye. You guys have it good up there, with your evil socialist/communist health care system

 

[Tharwen]

It's gonna be the future soon,
and I won't always be this way
When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away,
it's gonna be the future soon
I've never seen it quite so clear,
and when my heart is breaking I just close my eyes
and it's already here...

 

[Logic 0]

So were one step closer to having luke skywalker's bionic hand becoming a reality.

 

[ReiverCorrupter]

One more reminder that we are living in the future.

Onwards to transhumanism!

Amen, brother! Onward to the Singularity, onwards to eternity! May we one day look back on moments like this with the same pride patriots look back at the events leading to the founding of their country with.

The singularity is nonsense. Hardware keeps improving but we still have to write software code line by line. We might eventually have parallel processing networks but programming them will be incredibly difficult and we won't really know what they'll do. We're still going to have to work for our technological advancements. Also, bottom up nanotech is largely nonsense. To perform complex actions machines will have to be the sizes of cells. We already have cells. I see most things going the way of biological engineering.

Oh, and that part about biology being incapable of helping him is absolute nonsense. If he has nerve damage it can be fixed by stem cells. You know, if we didn't ban research on it.

 

[ReiverCorrupter]

I wouldn't be surprised if the American military is already conducting experiments for these sythetic limbs and how to combine them with weapons for future combat efficiency.

DARPA is way ahead of you. The military is always two or three generations ahead. If a civilian has it, it's old news.

 

[Reaper195]

That is quite wicked.



I also spent a few minutes browsing YouTub for that scene in IT Crowd where Douglas is breaking things with his bionic hand. Loved that episode.

 

[Cowabungaa]

That thing looks like a Deus Ex mechanical augmentation.

This excites me and scares me greatly.

Knowing that the Sarif Industries testimonials trailer could become real very soon in one way or another is indeed...daunting. But really awesoem at the same time.

Does it come in skin color?

Skin colour? Screw that. Gleaming chrome is where it's at.

 

[Woodsey]

When they get the wrist blades, I'm fucking there.

 

[ReiverCorrupter]

I'm pretty sure you'd die in that attack, along with everybody else in the blast radius who happens to be exposed to the atmosphere. Sooo...let's assume we both live. I get to have my awesome vision, and you...get to be food? idk, what would you inferior unaugmented humans do in the post-apocalyptic world? Aside from, you know, being hunted for sport...

And therein lies the problem with augmentation, whether mechanical or genetic. It gives you an incorrect feeling of superiority.

Whatever you say, Leon Kass. If someone has superior vision, then how is thinking that they superior vision delusional? It's an advantage. If you're talking about moral superiority... who cares? Rights aren't some metaphysical substance that pervades the universe and prevents people from doing things. They're just something we psychotic primates have made up in order for our societies to function more efficiently. I guess if you want to feel morally superior while you're being crushed that's your prerogative. I'd rather do the crushing personally.