Word up cutting-edge body-mod enthusiasts! Or should I say bleeding-edge? Either/or. For the long wait for implantable, “electronic tattoos” is nearly over.

Via PhysOrg:

Researchers in the…

Implantable, “e-tattoos” are almost here

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From Open The Future:

On Thursday, October 21, CBC TV will show Surviving the Future, an hour-long documentary on both the major challenges facing us over the next half-century and the…

Jamais Cascio on ‘Surviving the Future’

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Betabrand is proud to offer you the opportunity to own a piece of DARPA-class technology in hoodie form. For those unfamiliar with DARPA, it stands for Defense Advanced Research…

The DARPA Jacket

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Thanks to Bruce Sterling’s twitterfeed we now a have a word for those things we see around us on a daily basis, but couldn’t concisely describe.

Thomasons: Stairs leading to nowhere….

Thomasons – the scars left on buildings by progress

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The London Futures project is a series of postcards from the future, an attempt to visualize the affects of climate change.

The Camel Guards Parade is just one of “14 arresting images..on…

Images from London’s Future

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Taking the technology they created and licensed to Lockheed Martin to create the HULC, Berkeley Bionics have now developed a new product that lets paraplegics walk again.

WIRED tells us…

eLEGS from Berkeley Bionics

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From New Scientist:

Dutch research organisation IMEC, based in Eindhoven, this week demonstrated a new type of wireless body area network (BAN). Dubbed the Human++ BAN platform, the system…

Dutch researchers create new Body Area Network (BAN) for telehealth monitoring

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This and many more amazing photos via n0t.nu who explains:

Dutch photographer Martin Roemers spent ten years compiling an incredible collection of images that expose the clandestine…

Martin Roemers’ “Relics of the Cold War”

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As was mentioned in our interview with Amber Case, it’s Cyborg Month. Tim Maly has created the 50Cyborgs project; 50 posts about Cyborgs to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the coining…

The 50Cyborgs Project

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Last weekend I attended WorldCon, here in Melbourne. Five days running amok in the mindcandy store; sitting at the foot of the Elders and drinking in their knowledge. (Also, why I’ve been quiet on…

Stross on living amongst the Future Shocked

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