About The Future Is Here: A high-tech journey to acquire superhuman skills (1/6)
Angel Giuffria is a true-to-life cyborg. At four months of age, she became the youngest American to be outfitted with a myoelectric hand. Now, she is visiting groundbreaking engineering labs and facilities across the country to explore the latest biotechnologies that can further enhance the human body. Starting at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Angel tries out new hand capabilities with a modular prosthetic limb and learns that the team is currently working on the physical sensation of touch. She then moves on to Ekso Bionics, a developer and manufacturer of wearable robots, where Angel tests superhuman endurance equipped with an exoskeleton. There, she meets a stroke survivor undergoing rehabilitation with a four-motor exoskeleton. From wearable robots to wearable computers, Angel visits pioneer Thad Starner, who built the augmented memory system that set the path for technologies like Google Glass. But the real pivot involves getting machines inside the body. Angel Giuffria has a chip installed in her hand by a biohacker transhumanist and later travels to Brown University, where neuroscientists research implanting chips that can directly interface with
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- Title
- The Future Is Here: A high-tech journey to acquire superhuman skills (1/6)
- Category
- Travel & Adventure
- Runtime
- 47 minutes
- Language
- English
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