Hi-Tech Body Implants and the Biohacker Movement (hackaday.com)

szczys writes: Body modification has been growing in popularity. It's pretty common to see people with multiple piercings or stretched earlobes (called gauging). With this wider acceptance has risen a specific subset of Biohacking that seeks to add technology to your body through implants and other augmentation. The commonly available tech right now includes the addition of a magnet in your fingertip, or an RFID chip in your hand to unlock doors and start your car. Cameron Coward looked into this movement — called Grinding — to ask what it's like to live with tech implants, and where the future will take us.

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Not so high tech

[ColdWetDog]

TFA goes on about putting magnets and RFID tags inside people as the state of the art. I'm sorry, something we do to our pets doesn't really get a 'hacking' imprimatur, much less 'high tech'.

Wake me up when somebody open sources the way to access human memory with a digital chip ('Microsofts in William Gibson's parlance'). Or making some drug or device that actually enhances the human condition. And no, splitting a tongue in half so you can move both muscles at the same time is not an 'enhancement'.

Re:Not so high tech

[ShanghaiBill]

Or making some drug or device that actually enhances the human condition.

My father-in-law has an implant that improves his hearing. My wife has a eye lens enhancer that greatly improves her vision. I also had a vision enhancement device, but then I had LASIK, so I no longer need it.