Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Cyberman

After a long period of terrible insomnia. Today I have had a damn good rest all day.

I start writing an article in Thai again about the Cyborg. Indeed, It is such a pain in the ass to do something I haven't done for at least 5 years.

Cybernetic organism is something really interesting. I never know that this technology exists in a matter of 30 years by a pioneer in the field of wearable computer and, of course, cybernetics, Steve Mann, after the term was coined by Manfred E Clynes and Nathan Kline in 1960 in the NASA human space exploration.

Mann start wearing his machine 25 years ago and he live his life with it most of the time. In 2002, he was confiscated by the airport security in Canada and was enforced to remove his cybernetic setup. By which, He was having problem with nausea and many symptoms so he had to board on the wheelchair like a handicap. It is pretty obvious that he has integrated himself to the technology far too intimately and far too long. Therefore he, ultimately, cannot endure separating from it anymore.

Mann's invention is actually really interesting. His eyetap is capable to freeze moving object like wheel of running car or rotating propeller of a plane. Moreover it can record still image of what he is looking at at his whim.Stopping object from moving gives him an opportunity to have better face and detail recognition as well as ability to see something he cannot visualize clearly with his natural eyes. His wearable computer ,in addition, augments his remembrance by giving him extra-memory where he can access it anytime he would want to when it is attached to his body.

Well! Even though some people think he is just another blasphemist who is trying to enhance his ability to against god, he is still continue doing his amazing and extraordinary works and hope that one day it might change the way of our life to the better direction.

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