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World’s first bionic fingers targeted at partial-hand amputees

Bharat — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:08:10 +0000

The bionic i-Limb hand has been a revelation amid the amputees, so sensing the need to do more for the ones with missing digits, Touch Bionics— the inventors of the i-Limb — have developed the motor-powered ProDigits, the world’s first set...

Modular Robot that reassembles when kicked like a ragdoll

Gaurav Sood — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:36:54 +0000

You might have seen Sci-Fi fantasies or Big Buck movies where mean Cyborg gets back after being completely destroyed; reassembling itself when everyone thinks the robot is gone for good. Mark Yim, a professor of mechanical engineering Robotics...

Cyborg Robotic Gaming Keyboard

Anita Techviva — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:00:09 +0000

What another gaming keyboard? Well, no two people are alike and either are gamers. This Cyborg Robotic Gaming Keyboard has features such as High-end, adjustable, gaming keyboard with customizable backlighting, programmable functions, and media...

Artificial legs carry on the journey after real legs stop

Bharat — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:55:08 +0000

Welcome to the breathtaking world of realism where truth isn’t real to the eyes. Eyes… yeah! They show us the way and the legs lead us through. Prosthetics and bionics have given ample reasons for legs to follow what eyes see. From complexities...

Eyeborg project to put eye-socket camera into filmmaker’s eye

Bharat — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:48:25 +0000

Cyborgs have been an unbounded craze with most of us here. No matter how guys around the world have played with the expression – be it building cyborg insects and animals or replacing and fitting cameras and other mechanical devices into the...

From cyborg insects to cyborg chickens in Japan

Bharat — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:41:35 +0000

The word “cyborg” no more exists in imagination and fantasy, it has gone beyond and has reached the tenterhooks of realism. DARPA has its own cyborg animals being created and there are chaps at Sega in Japan who’ve developed cyborg...

Cyborg insects geared for a bio-inspired invasion

Bharat — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:00:45 +0000

While we still wait for someone to toss up cyborg men who’ll force their way over the extraterrestrial natives, scientists have managed to give us revived thoughts, stuffing insects with electronics. We’ve seen DARPA-backed R/C cyborg...

Flying mouse, a dragonfly makeover for the input device

Bharat — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:56:48 +0000

Being a mandatory accessory for computing, the mouse has greatly evolved over the years, since it was invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1967. From the regular mouse, to optical and then touchscreen, we have seen and used them all. With cyborg...

Of enhanced swimming, the PISCES project and science fiction 'comes alive'

Daniel Chakraborty — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:27:43 +0000

The “Performance Improving Self Contained Exoskeleton for Swimming” (PISCES) project is a bionic adaptation crafted to replicate the swimming techniques as observed in animals such as penguins, sea-turtles and dolphins. If military...

10 tech innovations to make you nearly invincible

Sameer Kumar — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:59:19 +0000

Welcome to a magnificent and breathtaking world of the future brought to the present with the amazing ingenuity of modern science which has blurred out the fine line between reality and fantasy, between fact and fiction and between the possible...