Cyborg America: inside the strange new world of basement body hackers

My sister has a brain tumor. The tumor, near her spinal cord, disrupts her body movements. She would love to have her body act normal again.

I am always looking at medical procedures that help the handicapped. I find it fascinating. I believe that if the technology was available to turn my body into a cyborg, I would do it. Maybe I watched too much Ghost in the Shell.

Im not talking about super human strength or even living longer, but I would like better vision or quicker reflexes.

I remember seeing this on here a couple weeks back. A video about augmented eyesight. http://vimeo.com/46304267

Fantastic article and reporting. I've read about people with "locked-in syndrome" where doctors implant chips in their brains, and the patient can control a mouse on a computer screen with their thoughts. I wouldn't mind having that technology implanted in my brain, although I've heard that China has an electron bomb that fries all electronics within an absurd-mile radius; I would be worried about getting my brain fried.

Smartphones made technology a ubiquitous part of our lives. Google glass will make them part of our body. This is the next step.

So anyone with a magnet in their finger can detect magnet fields. Wonder what that feels like.

piercings and body-mods... incisive piece... slouching towards immortality?