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As a doctor who has seen implants, long-standing implants, get infected, let me urge you to never, ever want this.

barrkel 16y ago
"Ever" is too broad. What about a genetically engineered, personally tailored biological implant? It may be in the distant future, but I'll guess it'll one day be possible.
- maeon3 16y ago
  I want a GPS, compass, infrared vision, gyroscopic (rotational sensors), accelerometers, optical zoom, be able to sense the frequency my cellphone is broadcasting on. I want to feel electrical and magnetic fields, be able to distinguish between every smell, have 360 degree radar/lidar, and optional echo location, temperature sensors, I want to be able to think http requests and sense the responses. I want to be able to close my eyes, disconnect all of my 5-10 senses and plug them into a computer generated world where the rules are as I define them. So I could be lying in bed yet genuinely feel that I am running a marathon.
  - AngryParsley 16y ago
    I was with you until the last sentence. I'd use it the other way: Have my body exercise while my mind goes on less painful pursuits. It's all wishful thinking though. There are serious disadvantages to putting hardware in bodies. Upgrading or fixing broken implants would require surgery, which is risky and expensive.
  - bobds 16y ago
    The ability to feel electrical/magnetic fields has been achieved by a couple of people. http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/Magnetic_Implant http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/Magnetic_Implant http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mods/news/2006/06/71087 http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mods/news/2006/06/71087 Of course it didn't go well in the long term, but it's a very interesting experiment. Here is the article about how it went wrong (contains some graphic imagery): http://news.bmezine.com/2006/04/01/another-two-months-of-magnetic-implants-the-publishers-ring/ http://news.bmezine.com/2006/04/01/another-two-months-of-mag...

"Ever" is too broad. What about a genetically engineered, personally tailored biological implant? It may be in the distant future, but I'll guess it'll one day be possible.

maeon3 16y ago
I want a GPS, compass, infrared vision, gyroscopic (rotational sensors), accelerometers, optical zoom, be able to sense the frequency my cellphone is broadcasting on. I want to feel electrical and magnetic fields, be able to distinguish between every smell, have 360 degree radar/lidar, and optional echo location, temperature sensors, I want to be able to think http requests and sense the responses. I want to be able to close my eyes, disconnect all of my 5-10 senses and plug them into a computer generated world where the rules are as I define them. So I could be lying in bed yet genuinely feel that I am running a marathon.
- AngryParsley 16y ago
  I was with you until the last sentence. I'd use it the other way: Have my body exercise while my mind goes on less painful pursuits. It's all wishful thinking though. There are serious disadvantages to putting hardware in bodies. Upgrading or fixing broken implants would require surgery, which is risky and expensive.
- bobds 16y ago
  The ability to feel electrical/magnetic fields has been achieved by a couple of people. http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/Magnetic_Implant http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/Magnetic_Implant http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mods/news/2006/06/71087 http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mods/news/2006/06/71087 Of course it didn't go well in the long term, but it's a very interesting experiment. Here is the article about how it went wrong (contains some graphic imagery): http://news.bmezine.com/2006/04/01/another-two-months-of-magnetic-implants-the-publishers-ring/ http://news.bmezine.com/2006/04/01/another-two-months-of-mag...