China’s brain chips break new ground
Nature - 04-Jul-2025BCIs in China help paralysed users control devices, play games, and speak Mandarin in real time
Augmentation
Staying healthy long enough for radical life extension to become a reality is like to involve body augmentation as drugs and healthy living will only get us so far. So human body interventions are likely to be needed such as replacement organs and body parts, or even external augmentation such as exoskeletons to keep us mobile.
Read more about: Artificial Organs, Biohacking, Brain Interface, Exoskeleton, Nootropics, Prostheses, Vision.
Augmentation News
Paradromics successfully tests brain implant to restore speech in humans
Wired - 02-Jun-2025First human trial of Connexus brain implant shows promise for speech restoration in paralysis
Neuralink raised $600 million, reaching a $9 billion valuation
Longevity Technology - 28-May-2025The company is still in early stages but attracting strong investor interest
Starfish neuroscience unveils plans for tiny, wireless brain chip
The Verge - 24-May-2025Valve CEO’s BCI firm builds battery-free chip to interact with multiple brain regions
Augmentation Resources
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The Headset That Can LITERALLY Read Your Mind: The Story of Neurable
BRAIN Whisperer: How BCIs Are Set to Transform Technology Forever
Ex-Neuralink Founder: AI Enhanced Bodies Are Nearly Here w/ Max Hodak
Max Hodak Announces the Arrival of AI-Enhanced Human Bodies
RAADfest 2025
10-Jul-2025
10th Annual RAAD Festival by Coalition for Radical Life Extension (Las Vegas, NV, USA)
Beyond Limits: The Enhanced Games and the Future of Superhumanity
24-Jan-2025
Event exploring the cutting-edge world of superhuman abilities and the future of human enhancement organised by OSAL (FREE, Oxford UK)
16-Jun-2022
Exhibitor highlights from Health Optimisation Summit 2022
I spoke with providers of supplements, CBD, trackers, drinks, and health apps
09-Jun-2022
Speaker highlights from Health Optimisation Summit 2022
Talks covered genetics, stem cells, photobiomodulation, psychedelics and the circadian rhythm
26-Feb-2020
Impli Implantables Presents at London Futurists
Anna Luisa Schaffgotsch talked about the history and future in implant technology
02-Sep-2019
Nexus Book Review (Ramez Naam)
A thought-provoking book with the same thorough detail given to the near future as Iain M. Banks does to the far future culture universe.
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