[Newsbot]

Title: Thousands of Swedes are getting microchip IDs inserted into their hands
Category: Tech
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2018-10-23 11:25:58

[llama66]

Notify me when I can replace body parts with cybernetics.

[DrCaleb]

llama66 llama66:

Notify me when I can replace body parts with cybernetics.

You want to look up a guy named "Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow". Yes, really. (Russ Foxx is the one with the horns)



They are a group of body hackers called 'Grinders'. RFID chips are nothing, these guys will put magnets, bluetooth transmitters, NFC chips etc. in themselves.

Apparently it's possible to sense electric fields in walls, and how much radiation a microwave oven leaks, with some of their hacks.

[llama66]

I'm thinking more along the lines of "Ghost in the Shell", "Deus Ex" or "Cyberpunk". These guys look like tools.(well hornguy does, anyway.)

[DrCaleb]

Hehe, yea. 'Grinders' do the body hacking in their kitchens. They pride themselves on what they can accomplish with little to no support.

Ones that have support, usually University Professors, have done some pretty intense things like implants directly into their nervous system. Those implants can then control robotic arms, or even wheelchairs.

One poor guy I recall had a lot of implants, and when he went through a scanner at a US airport the TSA wanted to forcibly remove them from his body. I can't even find a link, it was so long ago.

[llama66]

Surgery in your kitchen? that sounds sanitary.

[DrCaleb]

llama66 llama66:

Surgery in your kitchen? that sounds sanitary.

No worse than many army field hospitals. Disinfectants are easy to get.

They've even made a few discoveries, like hot melt glue will not be seen as a foreign object by the body and rejected. So you can coat your new augmentation in hot melt glue, and it won't scar over and leave you disfigured.

[llama66]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

llama66 llama66:

Surgery in your kitchen? that sounds sanitary.

No worse than many army field hospitals. Disinfectants are easy to get.

They've even made a few discoveries, like hot melt glue will not be seen as a foreign object by the body and rejected. So you can coat your new augmentation in hot melt glue, and it won't scar over and leave you disfigured.

Witchcraft.

[DrCaleb]

llama66 llama66:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

llama66 llama66:

Surgery in your kitchen? that sounds sanitary.

No worse than many army field hospitals. Disinfectants are easy to get.

They've even made a few discoveries, like hot melt glue will not be seen as a foreign object by the body and rejected. So you can coat your new augmentation in hot melt glue, and it won't scar over and leave you disfigured.

Witchcraft.

You saw the guy earlier, with the devil horns, right?

https://www.businessinsider.com/strange ... ful-2014-8

[newz]

Weak Swedes continue to prove they are weak.

[Winnipegger]

llama66 llama66:

Notify me when I can replace body parts with cybernetics.

Myoelectric prosthetic arms are available now. Tape electrodes to the skin of your stump, electronics pick up electrical activity of the muscle below the electrode. Done properly, when you move a muscle that used to move your wrist, the electronics activate an electric motor that moves the prosthetic wrist. Etc. They even have touch sensors that can be built into finger tips. A feedback mechanism is taped to your stump. The feedback can be vibration, or mild alternating electrical signal. This signal can be variable, proportional to the sensor. So light touch on the finger tip sensor produces light electrical stimulation, firm press on the sensor produces stronger electrical stimulation. Or a temperature sensor in the finger tip can control an electric heating element, or peltier device which produces cold. Even though the effect is on your stump, after a while with that stimulation corresponding to what you see happening to your prosthetic hand, it tricks the brain so it feels like you have feeling in your hand. And doctors can now isolate nerves that used to go to finger tips, reconnect them to a finger tip size patch of skin on the stump. So this really feels like your own hand. Sensation isn't as high-res as your own hand, but you do get a sense of touch in the prosthetic hand.






In addition, doctors have made progress with prosthetic legs. One advance has been tried with dogs, and works, but they've been afraid to try with a human yet. They found a way to make porous metal that mimics the stump of deer antler. Skin grows into the porous metal, creating a water-tight seal. This allows a metal post to extend through your skin while preventing infection. The issue with prosthetic legs has been a firm attachment to your let stump. But this would allow a metal post to be embedded deep within the bone marrow, screwed to the end of the bone. For example, a post jammed deep into the end of a femur if your leg is amputated above the knee. That post would extend out the skin of your stump, with a metal attachment post/clamp that a prosthetic leg could be plugged/snapped onto.

Other research has developed an active ankle, so supple that a double amputee (below knee) can dance.

[stratos]

Cheap Knee replacement please

[Winnipegger]

stratos stratos:

Cheap Knee replacement please

Wellllllllll... I never said any of this was cheap.

Actually, my friend the security guard has an artificial knee cap. When I knew him, he was security guard for a hotel. He had been a soldier in the Canadian military, briefly. Only one term. He was in the airborne regiment. However, when Manitoba introduced VLTs (Video Lottery Terminals) he got addicted. Once he tried to prove to me that he could make money, and dropped his whole paycheque. He moved to Ontario, until they introduced VLTs. Then he got a job as supervisor of security guards at the federal penitentiary in Iqaluit. I haven't seen him in years. But before any of that, he knocked on his knee cap to show it's plastic. He said once in Calgary he got drunk and bragged to the girls that he was a bull rider for the Rodeo. In reality he never rode a bull in his life. But when he went to the rodeo, the girls were there and wanted to see him ride. He was still hung-over. He felt he had to, so signed up and did it. The bull threw him right away, stomped his knee. This is the story he told me. It sounds too stupid to make up. Worked well enough to serve a term in the airborne regiment. He said the doctor tried everything he could to force the knee to pop; only when he couldn't would he let my friend enlist. He said it hurt like hell! When it was time to renew, the doctor wanted to do it again. He wouldn't go through that agony again, so didn't re-enlist.

[llama66]

When we have this, I'll be happy.

[DrCaleb]

I was thinking of JC Denton/Adam Jensen too.