agreed…
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that depends on the transferred power…
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perhaps it was cercadia 1.0?
Obviously the battery had not failed… but was about to… with drastic consequences if it had while still inside the body.
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That’s absolutely brutal to look at. Thanks for sharing, I hadn’t heard about that implant or the “incident”. That’s such a huge battery too (relatively speaking), so much energy. Even if it hadn’t started venting, a bad short would have been horrific to imagine.
It was exactly that! Thanks!
That second picture is the exact reason why I don’t have a Northstar v2 in my chest 
I think the “Pegleg” or other such things are just ridiculous. Those guys going out, buying some boards and converting them into implants, it’s almost like a bad movie.
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It’s reckless and daring, and I would neither do it to myself nor recommend doing that to anyone - but it’s crazy folks like these who keep mankind moving
I mean, lots of the stuff we do here would seem pretty ridiculous to most other people as well 
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This
I fail to see what’s actually ridiculous about the peg leg?
It’s effing huge sure, but it’s still encapsulated in a bio goop, is there some other risk factor I’m missing?
If memory serves the v1 only failed because it got smashed in a taxi door or something
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Correct, although in general it’s size doesn’t help (sharp ish corners / relatively thick). I believe that there are people who have had a pegleg V2 installed for well over a year now.
agree with both.
Actually, if it wasn’t for people doing crazy stuff in the past, we wouldn’t even be here right now…
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We should definitely respect the pioneering work of previous biohackers, but we also have to recognize their failings so we can learn from them and move forward.
I think what Intector means is that it was a total hack job using off the shelf parts that are not suited for implantation. There was a bunch of superflous junk that the pegleg didn’t even need to function that made the whole implant unnecessarily big. It should have been a custom board. We can do better.
Agree with you there.
Yet “the “Pegleg” or other such things are just ridiculous” is a statement that goes quite on the opposite direction from that.
Humans barely ever learn anything from what they treat as inferior.
It’s a similar principle to why most older people are unable to recognise a young person as able to teach them: because when we judge something as “bellow us” or “just ridiculous”, we are pushing it into a realm where no learning comes from.
One thing is to respectfully recognise failures and shortcomings, a very different thing is to depreciate them.
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