Seen that? – Psymbiote – a Cyborg overview
Psymbiote – a Cyborg overview The Techwear Weblog
A pretty interesting lecture and demo on creative cybernetic research and a "short" overview of CyBorgs in science, media and todays reality. "The Psymbiote: Hybrid Apparatus For Social Interface is an ongoing interdisciplinary collaboration focusing on the merger of technology with the human body. … Ultimately we seek to fully transform a human body into a new and unexpected hybrid organism with fully integrated control systems." Talking about wearable computing and [...] Read More
Carnival The Techwear Weblog
Want to know what's going on in the blogosphere? Go to a carneval! Today I found two interesting topics people joined blogs about. First is fashion, second mobile life. Just go and check for yourself and you will see that nothings more current when it comes to trends than the weblogs. And nothings more fun 
Looks like I'm a topic-collector these days… [...] Read More
Wearables in 2005 The Techwear Weblog
Bradley Rhodes and Kenji Mase bring to us an overview about wearables in 2005. Read about RFID for context awareness (beside is the iGlove who uses RFID to track objects touched), interface evaluations, clothing design and recording events (and filtering tons of daily data). From "Clothing design": "The project's goal was entirely aesthetic: one dress's hemline rises and lowers as if betraying or thwarting the wearer's secret desires, and brooch flowers [...] Read More
being cyborg TJ’s Weblog
Kevin Warwick is well published visionary who takes his own vision of being cyborg so serious that he has undertaken several surgeries to transform himself into one. A while ago I linked to this article. His story displayed on his homepage is intriguing: "On the 14th of March 2002 a one hundred electrode array was surgically implanted into the median nerve fibres of the left arm of Professor Kevin Warwick. The [...] Read More
Looking too far ahead? Nanotechbuzz
James Hughes at Cyborg Democracy speculates: Perhaps our descendents will use nanotechnology to turn whole planets into intelligent, living stuff, each atom a processor in a planet-sized mind, conscious of the fall of every sparrow and capable of preserving the memories of every life. In such a world our personal identities could continue for billions of years. Just as our Paleolithic ancestors could not have anticipated our great cities, our arts [...] Read More