Probably a strange and stray thought, but a cyborg body might work better with a holographic head instead of a physical one, assuming it's not going to be 100% humanoid to start with ( Read more... )

If you were a child of the 80s, or even the 70s, you grew up with pop culture which featured cyborgs. From Darth Vader to Steve Austin, Robocop to Cybermen to Inspector Gadget and Doctor Octopus, we were deluged with characters who were at least updates of Lewis Carroll's Tin Man. Everyone thought we'd see a future where people got bits of ( Read more... )

The Shadow Hand makes the current state of the art in prosthetics look like a pirate hook.

Now they just need to shrink the muscle mechanisms down a tad...

I've always had a fascination with artificial hands, going back beyond The Empire Strikes Back and probably to The Six Million Dollar Man. The closest thing to useful on the market today is probably the i-LIMB, which is fully articulated and can apparently grasp and lift around twenty kilos ( Read more... )