What new innovations/tech would you like to see?
Hi everyone, I had a question I wanted to pose to the biohacking
community. What kind of technology/devices would you like to see
developed in the near future? A good amount of work has been done with
magnets and LED's, but what is the next step? I am trying to think of
ideas for my PhD thesis in BME and I was wondering what the "demand"
would be in regards to wearables, implants, and augmentation. My focus
is on medical devices and the nervous system, but I am open to hearing
all of your wildest transhumanist fantasies :P
community. What kind of technology/devices would you like to see
developed in the near future? A good amount of work has been done with
magnets and LED's, but what is the next step? I am trying to think of
ideas for my PhD thesis in BME and I was wondering what the "demand"
would be in regards to wearables, implants, and augmentation. My focus
is on medical devices and the nervous system, but I am open to hearing
all of your wildest transhumanist fantasies :P
Comments
I would like to see nanobots in healthy individuals augment abilities, perhaps neuroplasticity speedup, muscle repair and faster healing from injury, enhanced muscle fiber recruitment in a shorter span of time, and modulation of Mood , reactions, & emotions(i.e. Flight or fight only when you need it).
Perhaps you could have nanobots for a specific desired "program", say you want intense focus, you "turn on" nanobots that narrow your focus and turn off the nanobots abilities to augment any other "program" you don't need for focus.
@Dirksavage88- I love the idea oh having an army of small nanobots all over that could act as sensors for when something is abnormal. It could act almost like a second immune system. Having worked in medical research for a bit, it seems like we have a good idea of markers that indicate a whole plethora of diseases, the problem is just being able to detect them in real time at their physiological concentrations (sometimes nano-molar). Current techniques that scan the metabolite profile of even just a drop of blood can take up a whole benchtop unfortunately, so things need to see a major scaling down. I saw an online video a bit ago about a lab that was working on controlling nano-bots in the eye to perform micro-surgery though, so people are starting to think along those lines. I know I would use functional nanobots to get completely ripped and huge, like that one boss in Metal Gear Solid haha
@Meanderpaul you are right that it isn't an actual magnet. The cells in the bird's brain do contain magnetite however which apparently will align with a magnetic field in a way that the bird can sense.
https://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/National-Wildlife/Birds/Archives/1999/Navigating-With-A-Built-In-Compass.aspx
Maybe it would be possible to make a magnetite based sensor to carry out a similar function. Interference from buildings and such would still be an issue though, but it might still be useful in more isolated areas. Maybe the design of the NorthPaw is the simplest way to carry this out after all! It looks like the trend here then is the down sizing of electronics to be easily embedded into the body
@DmLawrence- What kind of data would you want to keep on the drive? My first thought is it would be a great way to store medical records if you could make sure that only you had access. The link @Meanderpaul posted also has a link to an implantable storage device (transdermal). I wonder if they have built any or if they are still working on it.
@TheGreyKnight, what kind of research are you doing? Are you working on developing a brain-machine interface?
@Zerbula, any ideas for what functions the teeth could perform?
Let me know when you get that discussion up @Zwytechhacker, that idea looks really interesting. Would you use it to monitor blood sugar, or are you trying to power it with the sugar?
I have some questions/issues I want to ask.
1)
You say it's not a transdermal cause it stops flush with the skin....does it come through the skin cause if it does then it's transdermal if it's just under then it's subdermal.
2)
"OR should the body power it" please explain how the body would. This is a MAJOR hang up with electronic implants and is what is holding up functional products.
3)
It seems redundant to have either internal batteries or external that would power capacitors. That would essentially make the capacitor a battery internal. Why not just have rechargeable batteries inside with a qi charger?
I only see one real option to power it which still has drawbacks and that's the battery with qi charging.
I feel that it's worth mentioning that I am working on something similar with him, different but like none the less.
What exactly are you working on @JohnDoe?