Showing posts with label Implants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Implants. Show all posts

Thursday, October 31, 2013

When Two Cyborgs Met

Neil Harbisson, and pioneer of implants, Professor Kevin Warwick met at the 2045: A Futurist's Symposium in the UK in October 2013:

Neil Harbisson and Kevin Warwick*



Hear Neil's TED Talk I listen to colour: 
http://www.ted.com/talks/neil_harbisson_i_listen_to_color.html




Read about Professor Warwick at the 2009 World Science Festival: on 'Battlestar Galactica: Cyborgs on the Horizon':

"....the story of how he became the “World’s First Cyborg” yet left a deep impression. (A microchip embedded in a nerve in his wrist transmitted perceptible pulses to directly to his brain, based on signals sent via the Internet across the Atlantic ocean.)"

More here:

http://blog.ted.com/2009/06/15/world_science_f_1/


*Photo courtesy of Mariana Viada / Cyborg Foundation