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I never asked for this. If you can perform all these tasks with your smartphone cheaper and without invasive surgery, you can't really call it an augmentation

I never asked for this. If you can perform all these tasks with your smartphone cheaper and without invasive surgery, you can't really call it an augmentation or upgrade. Frankly, if implantable magnets and NFC/RFID chips are the full extent of the contributions of the biohacking community, then the community completely lacks imagination and creativity. We can use radio waves to measure heart rate and breathing and use that data to measure a person's emotional state. It would be interesting to see someone hack together an internal sensor that does this and have it attached to implantable led's, so your body could "glow" particular colors based on your emotional state. Or use electronic ink tattoos to make an animated gif on your body. Just copying the same two uninspired trends isn't what I would call hacking.

kanzure 9y ago
> Frankly, if implantable magnets and NFC/RFID chips are the full extent of the contributions of the biohacking community, then the community completely lacks imagination and creativity. Don't let the grinders get in the way of progress :-) There are many at-home genetic engineering folks that don't proselytize implants every n seconds: https://groups.google.com/group/diybio https://groups.google.com/group/diybio The downside to this other community is that the general public has an overbearing fascination with bioluminescence (sigh): http://www.the-odin.com/gene-engineering-kits/ http://www.the-odin.com/gene-engineering-kits/
- FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
  iGem always produces some fascinating projects, amazing high school kids! : http://igem.org/Main_Page http://igem.org/Main_Page There's also this BioHacker Space in SF that seems to have interesting meetups: http://biocurious.org/projects/ http://biocurious.org/projects/ Although it's not auto-biohacking, some group created yeast that produces thc, allowing for marijuana infused beer
  - kanzure 9y ago
    agreed about igem, i worked on a list of one-sentence summaries of all the previous igem projects: http://diyhpl.us/wiki/dna/projects/#igem-2014 http://diyhpl.us/wiki/dna/projects/#igem-2014
kalleboo 9y ago
An example of what better imagination yields http://neurowear.com/projects_detail/necomimi.html http://neurowear.com/projects_detail/necomimi.html

kanzure 9y ago

> Frankly, if implantable magnets and NFC/RFID chips are the full extent of the contributions of the biohacking community, then the community completely lacks imagination and creativity. Don't let the grinders get in the way of progress :-) There are many at-home genetic engineering folks that don't proselytize implants every n seconds: https://groups.google.com/group/diybio https://groups.google.com/group/diybio The downside to this other community is that the general public has an overbearing fascination with bioluminescence (sigh): http://www.the-odin.com/gene-engineering-kits/ http://www.the-odin.com/gene-engineering-kits/

FullMtlAlcoholc 9y ago
iGem always produces some fascinating projects, amazing high school kids! : http://igem.org/Main_Page http://igem.org/Main_Page There's also this BioHacker Space in SF that seems to have interesting meetups: http://biocurious.org/projects/ http://biocurious.org/projects/ Although it's not auto-biohacking, some group created yeast that produces thc, allowing for marijuana infused beer
- kanzure 9y ago
  agreed about igem, i worked on a list of one-sentence summaries of all the previous igem projects: http://diyhpl.us/wiki/dna/projects/#igem-2014 http://diyhpl.us/wiki/dna/projects/#igem-2014

kalleboo 9y ago

An example of what better imagination yields http://neurowear.com/projects_detail/necomimi.html http://neurowear.com/projects_detail/necomimi.html