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posted by janrinok on Thursday November 17 2016, @08:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the wired-for-health dept.

A man with metal horns protruding from his forehead and a split tongue poking out between his teeth advanced toward me with a scalpel. "I've never done this before," he joked, inching closer.

A full-sleeve tattoo snaked out from beneath his black T-shirt, extending from a demon on his bicep to a skull on his fist. My eyes darted between skull and scalpel, then instinctively shut as I cringed, bracing for contact. Zack Watson, the inked-up body modification artist I'd hired — and drove seven hours from New York City to see — was about to sew a magnet under my skin.
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Biohacking enthusiasts have tinkered with electronic tattoos and subdermal — underneath-the-skin — implants for two decades, sharing their efforts in videos on YouTube and internet forums to spread and encourage innovation. Proponents believe smart implants represent the future of wearable technology, potentially making humans healthier and more efficient while providing new opportunity to consumer-technology companies such as Apple Inc. AAPL, -0.34% and Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, -0.71% GOOG, -0.57% that are investing heavily in technology that could revolutionize health care.

All of these predictions [quoted in the article] come as global adoption of wearables is forecast to boom. Juniper Research, which tracks consumer technology trends, expects world-wide wearable shipments to reach 420 million by 2020, more than four times the 80 million shipped in 2015. A similar surge is predicted for medical devices, with shipments projected to triple to 70 million over the next four years.

Trans-humanism has been around for a while, but the article focuses on the investment capital that is now flowing into the area.


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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17 2016, @02:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17 2016, @02:42PM (#428115)

    I wear spectacles. I'm a cyborg. Well I'm as much of a cyborg as someone with a dumb magnet stuck in them.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17 2016, @04:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17 2016, @04:04PM (#428164)

    I'm waaaay more cyborged than that: Spectacles, watch (dumbwatch, tells time only), ring and two pieces of hi-tech mesh holding my guts in place.