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General Misc => Misc => Topic started by: Admin on May 19, 2010, 10:40:51 PM
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One of the major breakthroughs needed to convert people into cyborgs is a system that converts glucose into energy to power the implanted electronics.
This article shows that this has finally been achieved. The prototype generated an average of ~2uW inside of rats.
You really need more like 10mW inside of humans to be useful - but this prototype works enough that big companies with money will probably start investing in it. I predict 5-10 years before you'll see it commercially used in humans.
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/25341/?ref=rss&a=f (http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/25341/?ref=rss&a=f)
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Now THERES the answer for longer trips between charges for electric cars. Just keep the car stocked with hamburgers.
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Well, at last they've done it... Were screwed.
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I really hate where we are heading...
Ahem, ahem.... Sir I want the new 8core phenom in my head... I have some float pointing math to do....
LOLOLOL!!!!!
Not a chance...
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So, we can hook fat people up to the grid then?
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Well, if you don't get the implants you'd be considered Amish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish).
Picture your cell phone or IM messenger implanted in your head. Telepathy!
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No way man. I'll stay Amish.
I get obsolete fast enough with nimble gray matter. The steamroller is closing in with increasing velocity as it is. I'd hate to trust that destiny to silicon technology.