#10 • Bionics, Prosthetics & Human Enhancement

It’s a whole new world when the Internet of Things is part of you. In the future, everyone will be IoT-enhanced — bodies and minds connected via the internet to other things and people, everyone enhanced beyond normal human abilities.
Join  Andreea and Charles as they go beyond wearables, and discuss a future where “the Internet of Things…is people!”
Topics

* Dumb (passive) prosthetics vs. smart (active) prosthetics
* Hugh Herr, MIT Media Lab

* Powered ankle/foot prosthesis


* How are these smart prosthetics be part of the IoT?
* Benefits of connecting to your central nervous system
* Darpa’s touch-sensitive prosthetic
* Australian study on improving vision in mice
* Argus 2 retinal prosthetic system
* Bionic Vision Australia’s bionic eye
* Type 1 diabetes

* IoT pancreas


* Internet of Nano-Things?
* Sperm-bots
* How do you power something that’s embedded inside your body?
* Security: When hacks can kill
* Intimacy and consequences of prosthetics vs. implants
* Transhumanism and humanity’s conflicted relationship with enhancement
* Sports

* LZR Racer swimsuit broke 168 world records this year

* Banned as performance-enhancing substance in the Vancouver 2010 Olympics




* Military
* What happens when the Internet is in everyone’s brain?

* What happens when we can’t disconnect?


* Life extension
* Upgrades (!)
* Timeframes
* Flexible and temporary form factors
* How the IoT changes drug administration
* More personalized health
* 3D printing and prosthetics