DIY Cyborg | Wetwork
A new story pops up everyday about biohacking. Here’s the latest. Biohacker Tim Cannon had a computer chip implanted in his arm. Read this article over at VICE.
Growing a Nose on Your Forehead
Tissue growth is all the rage these days. Here’s the forehead method.
A man from China’s Fujian province has had a new nose grown on his forehead following a traffic accident last year.
via BBC news
photo: REUTERS/Stringer]
Arkansas Makes Body Modification Illegal
The Senate is laying the foundation for making Wetwork Illegal.
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Senate Passes Bill to Ban Certain Tattoos, Body Piercings
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that would ban non-traditional body art and skin implants.
The bill’s sponsor, Senator Missy Irvin of Mountain View, wants to limit body art procedures, particularly scarification and dermal implants.
By a 26-4 vote, the Senate moved to outlaw scarification, a procedure involving the scarring of the skin using heat to form a tattoo without ink, and implants that place ornaments under the skin.
The bill now goes to the House.
Glossary – Bioskiving
Bioskiving: Collagen, the most abundant protein in the body, is widely used to build scaffolds for tissue engineering because it is biocompatible and biodegradable. Collagen is, however, hard to work with in its natural form because it is largely insoluble in water, and common processing techniques reduce its strength and disrupt its fibrous structure.
The Tufts engineers’ new technique, called bioskiving, creates collagen structures from thin sheets of decellularized tendon stacked with alternating fiber directions that maintain much of collagen’s natural strength.
Read the full article here: tufts.edu
Injectable Oxygen Particles
Scientists Invent Oxygen Particle That If Injected, Allows You To Live Without Breathing
via TechWench
A team of scientists at the Boston Children’s Hospital have invented what is being considered one the greatest medical breakthroughs in recent years. They have designed a microparticle that can be injected into a person’s bloodstream that can quickly oxygenate their blood. This will even work if the ability to breathe has been restricted, or even cut off entirely. The person can ‘breathe’ for up to 20 minutes.
Not sure where this lives in The Gatecrashers, but that is some awesome tech. Sounds like it would be a bit more comfortable than the liquid oxygen popularized in The Abyss.
Wireless bio-absorbable circuits
Article from BBC
So imagine if little electric heaters could be implanted into wounds and powered wirelessly to fry bacteria during healing before dissolving harmlessly into body fluids once their job is done.
Explore Wetwork in the Gatecrashers universe.
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Smart Guns
There are a number of competing technologies being tested for smart guns, ie. only the gun owner can pull the trigger (think James Bond’s newest Walther PPK in Skyfall).
Here’s a story over at NPR.
“It’s about the size of a grain of rice,” McNamara says of the tag. “It’s that small, and they just inject it under the skin.”
photo credit: New Jersey Institute of Technology/AP
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