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.
Resources
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Health Optimisation Summit 2021
28-May-2022 to 29-May-2022
Organized by London Health Optimisation Biohacker Social Circle
Advanced and innovative technologies within the fields of prosthetics, braces, supports and compression therapy
We have always been cyborgs
10-Apr-2021London Futurists webinar about transhumanism with Stefan Lorenz Sorgner (FREE)
BBC Click meets biohackers and companies who believe it will be possible to live on to well beyond 100
Online event about sensory augmentation organized by re:MAKING SENSE with Marianna Obrist, Scott Novich and Liviu Babitz as main speakers. (FREE)
German metahumanist philosopher, a philosopher of music and an authority in the field of ethics of emerging technologies.
H+ Roundtable "Brain Enhancement & Rights"
14-Mar-2021Online event about brain enhancement organized by Humanity+ with Anders Sandberg and Francesca Minerva (FREE)
Augmentation Blog Posts
Impli Implantables Presents at London Futurists
26-Feb-2020 Anna Luisa Schaffgotsch talked about the history and future in implant technology
Nexus Book Review (Ramez Naam)
02-Sep-2019 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.
Action Man bionic eyes coming to an opticians near you soon
26-Feb-2015
Chip sandwich anyone? Human on a chip and chip on a cell
06-Feb-2015
Machine controls human - next step an app to define yourself
27-Jan-2015
Recent News
Exoskeletons may not serve the purpose in protecting workers from injuries
The Ohio State University - 21-Aug-2021
Additional mental strain imposed stress on lower back, negating the benefits of exoskeleton
Read more...Synchron helps paralysed patients control digital devices with thoughts alone
MobiHealthNews - 29-Jul-2021
Implantable brain computer interface received FDA approval for human trials in US
Read more...Translation of brain signals from a paralyzed patient into text by machine learning
Guardian - 15-Jul-2021
Neuroprosthesis provides natural communication for people who cannot talk
Read more...Clinical experience in artificial heart with autoregulation of blood flow
pharmaphorum - 15-Jul-2021
New heart replacement therapy for patients with end-stage biventricular failure
Read more...Tiny carbon fiber electrode records precise neural signals in rats
Medical Xpress - 08-Jul-2021
Novel brain implant that last years without damaging tissues
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