Never once the relationship between humans and technology is so close but for cyborgs its not close enough they merge their bodies with technology. In my words so ive created a new sense new organ and ive designed my perception of reality i have an implant here and i use my implants on a daily basis. Without it being medically necessary cyborgs inject magnets into their fingers plant ships under their skin they implant technology. Was in the nature of were not simply loonies with crazy i do this with people who are trying to shape the future so we start now we do like a hundred to one maybe even in the sorrow of the exponential growth this is catching on its all good if this is serious there are some hundred thousand users on the way were going to have to run a cave for on a caterer ok two million eight million or sixteen million. Will it be normal in the future to upgrade our bodies or are we already there. If your mobile phone is running out of battery many people say im running out of battery this is a clear sign of using or talking about technology in first person as if you are already Technology Yeah if someone offers me Choo Choo Choo get in your hand instead of this one but just stronger and better and more efficient and more precise. Then i would be absolutely willing to do the. Mentioning it when people say im a cyborg im not implies that i can do things that you cant do its the opposite of removing bandra is creating new boundaries of in this is more stuff. Neil harbison is as he says the worlds first officially recognized cyborg the composer has been color blind since birth he sees the world in shades of gray. So instead color has its own light frequency which corresponds to a sound frequency and so the out that allows with the hear the sound of each car this is a so each color has its own note so when i put colors on a piece of paper to meet like with the music on paper. In two thousand and four Neil Harbison had the antenna implanted by a surgeon who doesnt wish to be identified it contains a sensor that recognizes color frequencies and transmits them to a chip in the back of his head this chip turns them into audio signals. Have. A im just improvising this is a bit like jazz its just the thing the notes. The beginning was overwhelming hearing so many callers i knew sometime of other nation the brain will need to adapt to the new input until it becomes like any other sense or preexisting sense and then when it becomes normal you feel the need to extend it again so that cycle is what happened to me that when i was able to hear all the colors ritual. I felt it was a repetition all the time so thats why in friends and. In this way harbison can also hear strong sunlight motion detectors remote controls and antitheft devices but is that desirable twenty four hours a day. So the antenna is always on theres no. Night when i turn off the lights theres usually no color so theres silence but the internet is on so people can still send callers to my head while im asleep so if this happens. They can color my dreams. Its an unusual way of living which often creates problems. And fight with the british authorities for a long time before he was allowed to include the antenna in his passport. Well the biggest struggle of being as a world is so say of the people are not tolerant till one of the season is hard sometimes its also people that will really think that we are against nature and against. God. But harbison also has allies some of them in germany. And there is a community of people that. Are very. Enthusiastic about cyborg ism maybe not so are things theyd be able to see here in berlin with similar social big. Boards view themselves as for runners of a growing. Movement. Consent belongs to the berlin cyborg society. Side holds need visit instead. Hes a chocolate maker and a member of germanys pirate party and he intends to turn himself into a cyborg. Vacuo guns and lives together with his partner and their children the past few years have been hard he suffers from arthritis he already has two artificial knees and an artificial hip and although hes just managing to walk again itll soon be time for another head. And he wants to upgrade the new one. Before hands and from behind closed doors im all the things you could do with a hit like that of course by a monitoring would be no problem the bladder neural impulses provide a lot of information and then of course the little gimmicks like a mobile wife i rusa or i could have a smart phone in my pocket next to the artificial hip and it would get charged when i move or from the heat of my blood or i just dont have something healthy removed those now of course not nothings as good as the original or you know if its a school would you think it cool if i only had a wife i rode her in his hip. Or wireless router for wife i wherever i happen to be cool. I wouldnt be the rain god youd be the wife i god but you are that already. I dont know nobody would believe me. How do people get such ideas. As i do think when i met there i can for as long as ive known him hes wanted to be connected to the internet through a little device on his neck like in Science Fiction as well as a didnt get done hes had this idea ever since ive known him anything thats possible that would upgrade his body he would do it immediately. But as a thought. When. Received his three Artificial Joints you succeeded the surgeries with pain and feeling old. It would be different if theyd built in a wireless charger for his smartphone he says. But german law does not permit implants with supplementary functions so and has been in direct contact with manufacturers for months. In germany an implant is just an implant you dont play with it the glass the current view thats what we want to change we want to reach the people who make these decisions who can also say wait a minute theres a gap that needs to be filled and you need to get your foot in the door and if manufacturers dont respond those will. He was born without the lower half of his left arm and wears a prosthetic hand probably the best thats currently available. And can sink a basic value the prosthetic hand cant do anything more than my right hand can do that with one exception i can twist the prosthetic three hundred sixty degree continuously but its not very practical i always say its my party trick. But its also very interesting theoretically because of course it shows that even a first step to claim which in many ways is not as good as the original can be better in other areas in very specific abilities but they. Both as im cutting. Maya is a social psychologist at the Technical University in canada hes been studying this desire some people have for artificial bodyparts even though theyre perfectly healthy. I do find it a bit strange when people say in theory im ready to replace a healthy body part with an artificial one because it would make me somehow better of it. I think well frankly being one hundred percent healthy is a privilege that i dont have. A view leak. On so i think perhaps you should be a bit more aware of what a privilege that is that you enjoy us from cleveland. Humans are weak. And forgetful technology is supposed to liberate them from natures limitations but why take tools in your hands when you can carry them inside yourself. Is this the next logical step to upgrade humans to become stronger faster more perfect. Is this the end of human weakness. Or the beginning of the end of humanity. How many dreams of overcoming the limitations of his body with technology. As a small step in this direction he inserts micro implants in his body. December twenty ten at the Chaos Communication Congress left anonym gave a lecture titled cybernetics for the masses explained how you can perform your own implantations had very little cost. You mentioned magnet implants and r. F. I. D. M. P. When i became very curious about how magnetic and electromagnetic fields would feel. Then i decided to do it. Magnet implants dont have much use at the present time they vibrate in patrick palins hand for instance when he drives under electric power lines but a comment you factor is researching whether drivers could be sent signals via magnetic vibrations for instance in a dangerous situation. Humans react to tactile feelings more quickly than any other sensory data. Lives in here on the german dutch border he now has five magnets and six chips in his body each chip has its own function. Because the advantage is that i can never lose my keys or have them stolen from me i can never locked myself out. Makes life easier for my hands are full i dont have to dig into my trance or pockets to find my keys or look to see which key i need for the door. With another chip powerman can log into his computer. The chips operate with a technology known as r f i d radio frequency identification it allows data to be transmitted over a short distance without a battery. How many has already ordered another chip the manufacturer says it will eventually include more and more apps which will allow it to do things like send encrypted email and make payments. Weve already come up with the idea of making eyeglasses lasering eyes developing hearing implants. Were constantly progressing with the aim of making life easier. I only see advantages. Cyborgs are viewed as eccentrics but the industry believes this will change Neal Harbison is often invited to talk to telecommunications companies. Thanks. I. Know what i like doing is soundboard praise where instead of drawing someones face i get close to someones face and i write down the sound of the eyes the lips the skin in the air the first one i did was of Prince Charles i asked him if i could listen to his face and this was his reaction when i asked him i. Was their friend judi dench has silent hair for example one note lassie has no hair so he has less sounds. Very unsaturated. Neil harbison makes a good living from his lectures his cyborg existence is it just clever self promotion or is he really a social pioneer. Thirty years i think it will be strange. Not to have an implant of some sort in the same way that its very common to see. Fifty years it would be really strange very common to modify our scheme. For cyborgs the implantation process poses a practical problem doctors are not permitted to perform nonmedical surgery thats where he comes in the piercer turns humans into cyborg. Today its lucy a deep turn. She wants to have a magnet implanted in her hand. Still quite annoyed. Partly curiosity but mainly for professional reasons its been im a dressmaker and i dont like pink i should not have to see. Your so a small magnet here on my hand will be very useful to a lot of. Undergoing a procedure like this for such a trifling reason is surprising but he isnt bound by the restrictions that apply to doctors and doesnt ask too many questions. Its a gray area so its ok as long as the patient signs a contract that she bears all the risks. And implanting magnets carries considerable risk. Ive sometimes seen magnets from less reliable firms corrode in the body. Of a rodent right out of their casing or else they triggered allergic reactions that. Theres no way of knowing how the body will react to magnets it can reject them nerves can be damaged. From the keyboard. Its quite uncomfortable. But. The procedure costs roughly one hundred fifty euros and takes about ten minutes. It feels like a polling sensation its pretty strong and. Most people would never dream of implanting magnets or chips in their bodies but believes that will change. There are now chips in the beta phase that have more functionality. And i can see that in two five maybe ten years even more useful implants will be invented. Yeah. Something like this are a device that registers heart rate and other physical data. But in a much smaller format. What. Is big as a smartphone tin can and from the us had it implanted in his arm in twenty thirteen everybody my name is jim cameron i just became the first man. In my body that was for the purpose of an answer myself. Can continuously monitor body temperature and heart rate and transmit the data to a smartphone. The take home and is also interested in this implant. Met him he didnt have the implant any longer but from what i see on the video its quite big. It looks creepy and it was dangerous the batteries could have leaked thats why team canon had it removed after three months but he wanted to show whats possible. Similar in france are available on a smaller scale. I have an implant in my lower arm which measures my body temperature and has a Temperature Sensor inside. And i have an ar i find a device that reads the champ. From the displays the serial number on the temperature in my lower. Unlike the monitors or activity trackers these chips gather the data continuously without you having to think about them. One day robots could circulate in our bloodstream and analyze everything whats good for us when. Stressed we could continuously monitor our health and in tech diseases even before they become apparent. But do we want that the total surveillance of our bodies. As we comment is still waiting for the new chip he ordered the one that will allow him to encrypt data in the meantime he wants to tweak the chips he already has for that hes going to hack space a Meeting Point for technology freaks inherent power and founded it himself. At the drinks machine he only has to scan his chip and it transmits his data. How many of his friends want to get more and more out of each device. I want to lock and unlock my car without using a cane if you accidently feed current into this white wire you break the device but this could go wrong because conditions can. Palin has to hack the switch of his central lock system so it can read his chip which he tinkers with the device for five hours. Eventually he succeeds. The central locking system can now read his chip. Now it has to be installed in the car. Is locked. Great now i can throw away the case for. Once again powerman has made his life a little easier now he just has to wait for the chippy orders from the last. Leg is fighting for his cyborg hip so for the implant manufacturers have given him the Cold Shoulder hes decided to seek the support of his orthopedist coolish peter hunter. With the doctor agreed to implant an artificial hip equipped with a motion activated device to charge a mobile phone or one containing a mobile wife i router. As a very dark was ok so in the sockets of the here there would be space for a little gimmick. Certainly it could easily be built into an artificial joint you just have to watch out for the radiation exposure of course thats an ethical issue right. Is that an ethics play a role but were not just playing around if somebody is going to have an operation like this they can think about whether it could be upgraded a bit but they are of course. The radiation exposure could become a problem because the radiation would have to pass through all layers of the skin the implications of that havent been studied yet but the doctor believes in the future of these implants. He turns it off im very open to ideas like this that i dont want to be in favor certainly from the medical point of view methods and there should also when its really useful to the person not solve it in seven but if your mother. Is most physicians are very skeptical of the idea of cyborgs its the first time and has received support from a doctor but where does the compulsion come from to do such a radical thing. And i mean come on that statement so far as in effect gripping your body with technology is a way of making it more efficient and appearing more efficient and perhaps of increasing your own value a bit mine. Is all that in my own disability has certainly had an impact on my own selfesteem guarantees and i know the feeling that a bit of complicated technology can increase your sense of selfworth and still say its to be had for lying. In this future humans will be able to redesign their own bodies what will it be like when we all know everything about each other immediately when tiny robots inside us monitor our blood and when the distinction between online and offline has blurred. A brave new world. Will it be like when humans first invented tools and life became easier or will it become a competition for the best. And what about people who refuse such implants will this produce another divide like the one between rich and poor privileged and the disadvantaged. In sweden the idea of cyborg is more common place. A stock a media enterprise is holding an implantation party. The guest list includes many from stockholms creative scene. They can upgrade their bodies at the party or live with blood the founder of a bio hacker group came up with the idea. Bio hackers refuse to accept biology and the limitations of nature. They want to upgrade their bodies with technology. Today so your blood is promoting r f i d chips the same chipset patrick paghman carries in his body. I mean it works like this we knew most we are skeptical about things we dont really understand right but if you explain how it works what are the good things what about things what are the dangers when then most people are simply comfortable with it so this is what i tried to do im not in the business of selling implants i just like to share the insights i have. Getting a chip implanted in sweden costs about the same as in germany around one hundred twenty euros. The chips are made of bio glass so that the body doesnt reject them and theyre the size of a grain of rice helen a young village is one of the first who wants to give them a try. Very much nervous that im washing. Its not worth being given birth so im thinking my thought im trying everything once you only live once the every time i think out tomorrow to feel the love of this was hit with it five seconds later hello to you until it is chipped to hopefully i can open my door with that i have to call the Insurance Company and theyre the people delivering the door and see if i can open that with. A large number of people who get chips implanted dont know exactly what to do with them a Company Representative explains how they can save passwords for their business cards on the chips and transmit them to a smart phone with a way that the hand in theory the data could easily get into the wrong hands still many believe that a good chunk of the population will soon have implants its over so within five years. With. Early adopter if theyre truly out of bhardwaj technology and it may be upcoming generation its all theyre all born with an i pad and i fall under the stairs and the i mean my son is six years old. Is due in june or programming and as i go kindergarten so. Stockholms Public Transport Company is even considering letting passengers pay for their tickets with implanted chips. Helena young adult who just received her first ship thinks thats a great idea. I lose my things all the time i lose my passport i lose my bus card my bu