How To Be A Cyborg - EPIC HOW TO

Darth Vader Robocop and the Tin Man what do they all have in common yeah they're all cyborgs half-man half-machine 100% badass yeah especially Tin Man that dude had an axe you guys want to be a cyborg - whoa okay you're in the right place plug in a boot up guys this is epic ow - becomes cyborg hey guys real quick today's episode is brought to you by Squarespace Squarespace is hands-down the easiest way to build a beautiful website if you're into that kind of thing websites look epic wink regardless of whether you've ever made a website before you don't even need a credit card just click this link and save 10% off of your new subscription by using the code AMI say it out loud Oh me yeah Squarespace build it beautiful what the heck is a cyborg well cyborg is being with both organic and mechanical parts the term cyborg was first coined in 1960 by scientists Manfred Clyne's and dr. Nathan s Klein spelled differently besties however the concept of cyborgs dates all the way back to 1843 in a short story called the man that was used up by Edgar Allan Poe as sci-fi as it sounds the technology to create a cyborg is already here and has been since the 1950s you probably know a cyborg and don't even know it how well cochlear implants and artificial pacemakers it's a far cry from Darth Vader but any mechanical part in your body makes you or anyone you know a cyborg in a recent study of 61 countries over 1 million people have an artificial pacemaker inside of them a pacemaker is a device that uses electrical impulses to regulate the beating of the heart first pacemaker was implanted in 1958 in over 200,000 Americans receive implanted pacemakers annual cochlear implants are tiny devices surgically implanted into a patient's ear designed to replace the sense of hearing they work by bypassing damaged portions of the ear and directly stimulate the auditory nerve this sends signals to the brain which then interprets that as sound a 2012 report listed over 320 4,200 people worldwide having cochlear implants holy crap cyborgs everywhere cyborg technology has progressed far beyond simple pacemakers and cochlear implants however one recent development is exoskeletons exoskeletons are wearable suits that can replicate human motor functions these exoskeletons replace functions such as walking or lifting and have a variety of uses from helping a paraplegic walk again to enhancing a soldier strength on the battlefield tighten arm developed by students at the University of Pennsylvania is a wearable exoskeleton that allows people to lift up to 40 pounds more than their strength would normally allow the power riser is an awesome name and is also a kind of jumping still that straps onto your legs and allows users to jump up to six poop in the air and take running strides of up to nine feet and there's also the EXO s2 designed by Raytheon for the US military it allows the wearer to lift up to 17 times their base strength and punch through three inches of wood yeah safe when the trees attack on the medical side the wonder craft developed by the French company of the same name is designed to assist those who can no longer walk the exoskeleton can achieve a walking speed of 2.1 7 miles per hour on its three hour battery life sweet suit what can you do walk beyond exoskeletons scientists have found a way to have our brains directly interface with a computer in 1997 Johnny ray became the first human to use his brain to operate a computer ray a war veteran and stroke victim unable to move practically any of the muscles in his body agreed to receive neural implants after months of practice johnny was able to move a mouse cursor on the screen with just his thoughts alone that's amazing freaky but to completely become cyborgs we need to have fully controllable robotic limbs BrainGate a program developed by scientists at Brown University and the tech company cyber kinetics has been studying and advancing cyborg technology in humans for example 2012 they successfully saw a woman paralyzed from the neck down move her robot arm just by thinking about it now out in this big crazy world there are plenty of people who have embraced their inner machine and gone full-on cyborg in 1997 professor Kevin Warwick implanted a chip into his arm to allow him to open doors and activate other electronic devices within his home since then he's been constantly modifying his body to further cyborg research his wife also modified her arm creating the first-ever electronic communication between the nervous systems of two different humans Warwick hopes that this might lead to the development of a sort of telepathic bond between people back in 2002 jens Naumann a man who had been blind since he was a teenager became the first person in the world have an entirely artificial vision system implanted in his body though he could only see basic lines and shapes cyborg enhancements have restored his vision now meet Neil Harvison he's the first legally recognized cyborg that's right it's on his passport neil was born colorblind only able to see in shades of gray in 2004 he and a computer scientist by the name of Adam Montandon developed the eye board and aunt Anna fused with his skull that translates color into sound waves via a vibration mechanism this system allows him to both hear and feel colors and not just the colors of the rainbow in the visual spectrum Harvison can see infrared and ultraviolet - normally undetectable by the human eye now where does cyborg technology go from here Ray Kurzweil director of engineering at Google thinks we're going to start completely replacing body parts with robotic ones as soon as the year 2100 he's predicting that our new robot bodies and brains will astronomically and plate our abilities increasing our overall intelligence 1 billion fold that's nuts when it comes to warfare Pentagon officials see a future where cyborg soldiers can control drone strikes and fire guns with just their thoughts awesome these super soldiers will have nanobots in their bloodstream to monitor and regulate their vital signs allowing them to fight longer and harder than ever before but don't get too freaked out about the cyborg apocalypse yet other experts remain cautiously optimistic about the potential of cyborgs scientist Gabriel E&M argues that transhumanism is less of a cure-all and more of a tool in the same way that someone with the world's greatest guitar doesn't automatically become an expert musician a cyborg still has to learn in their newfound potential I mean you can give people all the latest running gear in the world but most aren't going to have the discipline to wake up early and go for a run so don't worry too much about cyborgs yet look at that you're stronger you're faster and you're smarter than ever you sir or ma'am are the perfect cyborg machine just make sure you plug in overnight because nothing is worse than running around on 3% battery life you know this has been epic app - 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Length: 7min 12sec (432 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 17 2016