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.  
#cyborg     #transhumanism  
http://techxplore.com/news/2015-06-lifelike-bionic-functions-precision.html

#transhumanism #neuroscience

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Originally shared by Giulio Prisco
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/quest-upload-mind-into-digital-space-180954946/#OL8gv450oRp2a2pr.30

Genetic Doping Is the Next Frontier of Cheating

Genetic Doping Is the Next Frontier of Cheating

The change in muscle performance for an elite athlete could be substantial. The actual effect would depend on a number of factors (including the intensity of training), but in tests, lab rats who were injected and then made to do resistance exercises increased their muscle mass by 15 percent on top of what they would have normally achieved with exercise alone. More important to an athlete, the effects could last for years, if not decades. Researchers tested it on monkeys some 15 years ago and still haven't seen the induced changes drop off.

Dr. Charles Yesalis, a professor emeritus at Penn State who's researched performance-enhancing drugs, says he expects this "cascade" method of doping — in which athletes trick their bodies into releasing more of something that would increase performance — will become increasingly common as new advances are made. And while he says there are different ways athletes could use such a method, "The No. 1 thing that comes to mind is genetic doping."

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http://nym.ag/1C8pfD5

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Originally shared by TechCrunch

Humans: The Next Platform
http://tcrn.ch/1By7ucG

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Originally shared by 33rd Square

Recently on CNN, bionics technology has been featured in the series, The Art of Movement. What will the bionics revolution mean for everyone as the technology continues to advance?
http://www.33rdsquare.com/2013/05/the-bionic-revolution.html