here's how you can become a real cyborg right now step one have a buddy made of Flesh and Blood step two put the budy through terrible accident wait wait wait step three get smart Engineers to experiment on you for research purposes but you're still stuck on step two right now so how about we take a look at some real life examples of cybernetic upgrades you can get great we've got sense augmentation telepathic communication and finally bionic limb ification let's start at the top bionic eyes hostile detected in 1978 engineer William dbel tried to create artificial Vision he found that when you electrically stimulate the visual cortex a splotch of light called a phosphine is perceived he then stabbed a bunch of little electrodes in and mapped video camera footage to them creating a dot matrix of phosphine so now someone wearing the device could see the outline of shapes one of his blind patients even regained enough Vision to drive a car I can finally see now his work was showing signs of truly helping people and then he died and everyone realized that he barely documented anything all that research straight down the toilet but since then there have been many advances in bionic eye technology devices like the August 2 now allow you to read large text SC oh imagine if you could record and replay memories or you could even stream other people's camera feeds and relive them for yourself maybe you could even zoom in and enhance one day I could even hack into your eyes and play doggo videos directly into your brain well anyways congratulations on your new bionic eyes but did you know people nowadays are experimenting with non-human senses as well magnetic sense this one's a weird modification but you you need all the help you can get my friend so you get a professional to cut your finger open and stick a itty bitty magnet inside now it Wiggles whenever you're near a magnetic field seems a bit gimmicky but it could be useful for an electrician you could sense the shape and intensity of magnetic fields and even distinguish between AC and DC voltages but there would be so many advantages like how would you get an MRI done have you seen how strong their magnets are um so we need to uh scan you for cancer um sir or even worse it just rips out of your skin you couldn't get past airport security either but at least you can pick up paper clips with your finger but your implant would demagnetize over time So eventually you're just left with the piece of trash and a demagnetized magnet looks good on you though just don't get too close to that machine color sense Neil Hobson was born with a rare form of complete color blindness and at the age of 22 he turned into the world's first Pikman he has a cyborg antenna implanted into his skull with a camera on one end and a sound vibration implant on the other now he can hear colors through audible vibrations based on what the camera is seeing the cool part is that he can see infrared and ultraviolet light too ah today's a sunscreen kind of day but turns out having your brain constantly vibrating isn't Fun make stop please but the human brain is plastic not literally made of plastic but able to adapt and learn so even though there was this new sense forcing its way in Neil's brain eventually accepted it just like how our brains aren't overwhelmed by our eyes constantly seeing and our ears constantly hearing I'll give you this antenna doesn't really do anything but it's cute cybul sense speed round North sense is a little chest implant that Jiggles every time you face North Cento is a proximity sensor that Jiggles when you're next to another Cento user seismic sense is an implant that Jiggles when the earth Jiggles these cyborgs sure do a lot of jiggling don't they I I guess we should sort that out now huh telepathic communication humans communicate like this but imagine if you could talk like this instead well to do this you'd need to read information from one brain and write it to other brains or computers neuralink is already working on this with their brain computer implant and they've recently completed their first human trial the patient was paralyzed from the shoulders down after an accident and now he can use his mind to play RuneScape the chip has a bunch of electrode threads which can read different signals from your brain there software then Maps these signals to cursor movements on a screen and you could use this technology to map a brain to any computer interface like a Jager with this implant you can now control this Roomba here you go buddy right now brain-to-brain communication is pretty difficult because seizures but a simpler option would be to read a message from one brain and use a computer to transmit it to an ear imprint you could basically have your own private radio channels in your head reading information from brains could be a bit scary though I don't want people to know my intrusive thoughts Neil the Pikmin and his jiggly cyborg buddy achieved a different form of cybor communication with Bluetooth and I mean a literal Bluetooth when they were in close range they could communicate in Mor code by tapping their teeth what happens when they're eating though how could you say that anyways that's communication sorted wait where'd you go I I guess it's time to get you some real legs now bionic limbs at the age of 17 rock climber huur had both his legs amputated due to frostbite doctors told him he would never climb again but instead of giving up he turned his clunky prosthetic legs into ones that could outperform real human limbs spiked feet for climbing vertical ice walls extending legs for reaching far footholds and narrow tipped feet that could slip into cracks Way Too Thin for regular feet his legs also didn't get tired while climbing anymore because he he didn't have any now he finds himself as the Director of biomechatronics at MIT where he designed special brain controlled bionic legs microprocessors constantly adjust the stiffness of his joints to mimic how humans naturally walk like look at how smoothly he moves he hopes to end his ability in humans one day but there's a few major problems to solve first one is that it's really hard to interface with human skin it's hairy oily sweaty and it chafes and cuts easily you can't just duct tape a prosthetic on and call it a day Hugh's research is developing synthetic skin to tackle this problem it can change its shape and stiffness under electrostatic forces kind of like how the glider Cape from The Dark Knight turns from floppy to stiff when you run a current through it so the synthetic skin is soft and stretchy on your squishy parts and stiffer where there solid bone surface underneath it's pretty comfy but a gross problem that's often overlooked is sweat since Prosthetics basically surround amputated limbs like a shoe sweat doesn't evaporate so some sports Prosthetics include drain holes another interfacing option is oio integration which involves implanting titanium directly into the bone and then you can swap out whatever attachment you want but the biggest problem is that bionic limbs don't really feel like they're a part of you humans have a sense called proprioception which is basically your body's spatial awareness for example if you close your eyes you're still able to touch the tip of your nose with your finger the same can't be said for bionic limbs just yet but research is currently being done to solve this and soon you could pick any bionic limb you want and it would feel like a part of you bionic limb speedr Jason Bonds is a drummer with a bionic arm attachment with two drumsticks allowing him to play rhythms no other human can play Jesse Sullivan is one of the world's first cyborgs who had a bionic arm that could be controlled through nerve GRS in his chest this dude stuck a USB in his finger and there's a company called psionic that makes prosthetic arms that can punch through things and now with a few little adjustments all finished you look great ah you're welcome [Music] [Applause] see you next time