The Future Is Here: Cyborgs Walk Among Us | InnovationNewsDaily

When one-eyed filmmaker Robert Spence wanted to sell a documentary film idea of becoming an "EyeBorg," he installed a cheap LED light in his prosthetic eye. The simple addition instantly made his cyborg concept recognizable to potential business partners as he closed in on a possible deal for his documentary.

Bionic beings who are part-human, part-machine may sound like a concept that still belongs in science fiction stories. But experts say that cyborgs are already walking among us, and have been around for quite some time.

"Cyborg is your grandma with a hearing aid, her replacement hip, and anyone who runs around with one of those Bluetooth in-ear headsets," said Kosta Grammatis, an engineer who also worked with Spence on the EyeBorg project.

That illustrates the gulf between what experts and ordinary people think of when they imagine a cyborg. Many experts see a modern world filled with cyborgs, whether they wear exoskeleton robot suits and prosthetic limbs or pacemakers and eyeglasses. Yet the public still prefers the fictional Robocop and Terminator – science fiction concepts that have not yet become fully realized in the real world. [5 Reasons to Fear Robots]

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"[Kevin Warwick, a professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading in England] ...  even experimented with a form of electronic telepathy with his wife (who also had an implanted chip)."

 

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