First, I’m thoroughly attached to my various bits and plan to keep all of it. RoboCop is cool, in theory, but I’m keeping my meat, thank you very much.
However, in life, shit happens. People occasionally end up losing parts by accident. I guess my question here is, have any of these unfortunate people embraced the body mod / grinder concept in order to rebuild themselves in a new and cyborgish way?
I’m really thinking about people construction or reconstructing limbs that are not intended to mimic biological form or function.
I realize this could be VERY personal to anyone faced with this choice, and I don’t want to be disrespectful, so obviously just people who have made their hardware choices public.
2nd question. Amal, anybody ever approach you wanting custom work along these lines? Or are there people who specialize in these builds? I figure most people aren’t going to have the tech skills to do their own.
yeah for sure… but usually their expectations are wildly out of scope… like “I had a brain injury, do you have a chip that can improve my memory?” because there was some media article a while back that talked about “everyone will get chips in their brain to learn kung fu like the matrix” … stuff like that. Sorry dudes… I work out of my garage.
Check out Hugh Herr’s work. He’s a bilateral amputee professional rock climber who designs next generation bionic limbs at the MIT Center for Extreme Bionics.
It’s JC Sheitan, a french tattoo artist, who had a custom made tattoo machine instead of an arm. Must be a great feeling to work with that, quite like painting a tattoo with your fingers…
Not strictly speaking a cyborg, but you might want to check out Aimee Mullins’ TED Talk, in which is describes how her prosthetic legs have enhanced her life.
Man would I love to listen to a (civil) debate between these two camps. Alas, the world seems to be running low on civility of late.
Damn, that was exactly what I was talking about, and VERY well done. I was thinking more function over form, while she clearly went on an aesthetics kick that I never considered, but that’s something to really mull over. Thanks.
Yes. The laser is gonna need some real juice.
Or. I’m pretty sure the ruger 10/22 receiver could be adapted in with a much shortened barrel. I sense lawyers circling already.
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