Since the popularity of micro computers (Arduino, Pi…) there were several small applications developed that could be implanted under the skin.
The breakthrough will happen either when power sources will improve in safety, longevity and capacity or the power consumption of devices will drastically decrease. (Solar panel under the skin.)
The other break-through would be credit card companies saying yes to payment chips.
The technology is pretty much in front of them to be approved, and a bunch of Beta testers can’t wait to get implanted.
I wouldn’t describe Cyborg Nest as ‘not the real thing’, despite their business strategies are different. My orientation skills are , I can’t wait the Sentero to arrive! (I’m not advertising, I actually need that stuff!)
Yet, I agree with you that when that comes through we will see a big leap in the numbers within the community.
Also, as already said… Magnets, which are not a new thing at all, but just got a potentially innovative perspective (given that they are meant to not suffer from perceptive decay anymore)
I would also risk and say that there are plenty of wearables out there which are laying the foundations for fields we can jump into… but that’s still pretty much within the “microchiping” aspect of it, which isn’t so new, in essence.
I’d personally say Sentero is still biohacking, in reference to how the wearer adapts to it and uses it in their everyday lives, but definitely not “cyborg technology” like they’re marketing it to be. It’s a wearable. Innovative, maybe, but I agree it’s not exactly big news, and it’s not bringing anything new to the table.
Looks like it’ll be very useful orientation tool - and by opening the public up to the idea of adding new senses through technology, more will become open to the actual integration of that technology into their bodies.
The hasty use of “cyborg” all over the Sentero info page of their website does bug me, because like I said, this is not cyborg tech, at all. It’s a wearable.
The most you’ll get cyborg-wise from Sentero will be the optional xSIID implant you can get with it. Even so, the implant doesn’t seem like it will have much practical use pairing with Sentero anyways. Just another stab at opening up the public to REAL cyborg-ization, albeit a lousy one.
Of course my Sentero hasn’t arrived yet… they’re aiming to have the product shipped out to the first backers in February 2021. So until then I can’t say anything definite on how good of a product Sentero will be.
Perhaps on my YouTube channel I’ll do an extensive review of the product. We’ll see.
The problem with the word “biohacking” is, if anything that enhances or modifies the body is biohacking, then anything goes. Wear specs to biohack your eyes. Drink vodka to biohack your sense of balance (drink enough and you’ll biohack the direction of flow from your mouth to your stomach too). Look at a compass to biohack your sense of direction. Rub Preparation H to biohack your achy ring.
By that token, anything that enhances a naked human being is biohacking. That is, virtually everything since the dawn of time, when a clever homo sapiens noticed that chewing on willow bark relieved headaches. Some marketdroids have latched onto this - strictly speaking correct - idea and created entire lines of patently ridiculous and obvious “biohacking” products, ranging from sleeping masks to chocolate bars, targeted at new-age fools.
There needs to be a line drawn somewhere, and I personally draw the line at any add-on that stays permanently inside your body - be it implants or foreign DNA.
By the way, this idiotic trend isn’t new: the word “hack” itself has been used and abused for years. It used to mean repurposing something (after it stopped meaning only cutting something into pieces of course ) Now the internet is replete with “life hacks” of all kinds. Those used to be called “tips and tricks” and “grandma’s recipes”, and they usually describe things that are as old as dirt and that everybody’s known forever. But hey, it’s a hack, so it must be new!
Biohacking is the most recent craze to emerge from Silicon Valley. It describes those Biology lovers who are driven by a desire to push the boundaries of natural science in new and extreme ways. The growing popularity of Nootropics — pills that claim to improve various brain functions in humans – is the most inventive form of this DIY biology.
3 of your 4 posts are replies to > 1 year old posts
and one is a random comment with no reference or reply to anybody.
All 4 are statements
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Hi, do u have any info on walletmor?
I’m considering buying a chip of them.
Or would u suggest a DIY option.
I’m starting to genuinely consider that tbh.
, I can’t wait the Sentero to arrive! (I’m not advertising, I actually need that stuff!)
) Now the internet is replete with “life hacks” of all kinds. Those used to be called “tips and tricks” and “grandma’s recipes”, and they usually describe things that are as old as dirt and that everybody’s known forever. But hey, it’s a hack, so it must be new!
