Bionic hands are improving fast.

Originally shared by Aung Thiha

Bionic hands are improving fast.  We now have prosthetic technology with tactile feedback for natural sensing,  neural signal control for lifelike manipulation of prosthesis. Now this hand is strong enough to handle 45kg—the weight of around 25 bricks.  
Soon enough, people will want to upgrade their parts with robotic counterparts, moving from assistive technology to life improving technologies. That would be one of our ways to immortality.  
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http://techxplore.com/news/2015-06-lifelike-bionic-functions-precision.html

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Originally shared by Sakis Koukouvis

Cyborg makes art using seventh sense
 
Neil Harbisson can only see shades of grey. So his prosthetic eyepiece, which he calls an “eyeborg”, interprets the colours for him and translates them into sound. Harbisson’s art sounds like a kind of inverse synaesthesia. But where synaesthetes experience numbers or letters as colours or even “taste” words, for example, Harbisson’s art is down to a precise transposition of colour into sound frequencies. As a result, he is able to create facial portraits purely out of sound, and he can tell you that the colour of Mozart’s music is mostly yellow. Liz Else caught up with him at the TEDGlobal conference.
http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news/p/2092178655/cyborg-makes-art-using-seventh-sense