[LionRoar]

I am not put off by the DIY surgery or the size of the computer. But I was astonished by this line: 'the chip can record Cannon's body temperature and transfer it in real time via Bluetooth.' If I would attempt such a thing like this I would make sure it could do a lot more!

Direct link to the article: http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-diy-cyborg

Spoiler: there are no pictures of the biohack surgery

[larrybolt]

I certainly agree with that, it seems the only two functions of the implant are measuring the temperature and making light up his arm a little bit.

I am however curious to see how this project will advance, will he be able to use his arm like he did before, won't it affect his health in any way... how about heath generated by the device itself...

But being honest about it, this is cool! I always imagined with the current technologies (think google glass, thalmic's myo, current smartphones) we will come very soon to a time where wearable computers will make our live much easier, the only bottleneck seems to be we haven't got batteries that could last longer than a day and power such a device.

[thenerdfiles]

Yeah, and upgrades... I'm quite sure an intuitive requirement of cyborgitzation involves the capacity to "expand" or viably upgrade added Enhancements. This looks like a grueling effort for a Terminal Enhancement.

Does it really even need to be under the skin to accomplish its feature-set? I mean, if the margin of error is increased only slightly, stay above. The cost of going under the skin just does not seem worth it.

This seems like a romantic thrust toward "looking" cyborg, regardless of the actual scope of the feature-set.