Neurotronics.org

A neural engineer from Case Western Reserve University is reviving paralyzed limbs with an electricity hack. It’s a brilliant workaround for spinal cord injuries, and it may someday let paraplegics activate their legs just by pushing a button.

http://gizmodo.com/5508116/hacking-nerves-to-revive-paralyzed-limbs

“…this latest from researchers at the Brain Science Institute (BSI) — Toyta Collaboration Center have what they claim is a system that’ll control the ride using brain waves analyzed every 125 milliseconds, which it boasts bests the competition by several seconds. Testers using the wheels and EEG cap system have achieved accuracy up to 95 percent…”

A camera is built into a pair of glasses that sends signals to a tiny chip implanted in the back of the retina and stimulates nerves that lead to the vision center of the brain, helping seeing impaired people see again.

http://www.livescience.com/common/media/video/player.php?videoRef=LS_090526_Artificial-Retina

Second Sight ® Medical Products, Inc., located in Sylmar, California, was founded in 1998 to create a retinal prosthesis to provide sight to patients blinded from outer retinal degenerations, such as Retinitis Pigmentosa. Through dedication and innovation, Second Sight’s mission is to develop, manufacture and market implantable visual prosthetics to enable blind individuals to achieve greater independence.

http://www.2-sight.com/

Wolverine has some fun tricks up his sleeve — and under his flesh, actually. He heals quick, his bones are made of virtually indestructible adamantium, and everybody’s envious of his retractable claws.

So how about the rest of us mere mortals? Well, if you weren’t born a mutant, there’s still hope in the wild world of implants. Want a robotic arm like Bishop’s? They exist. Want to sling metal like Magneto? You can do that, too.

http://dvice.com/archives/2009/05/8-body-implants.php

Opening a car trunk or controlling a home air conditioner could become just a wish away with Honda’s new technology that connects thoughts inside a brain with robotics.

http://ow.ly/2eTV

The second trailer for Sleep Dealer courtesy of IGN. Set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology.

Updates:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/sleepdealer/
http://www.sleepdealer.com/Landing.html

Having lost his eye in a childhood accident and suffered a lot of pain, Rob Spense, a 36-year-old filmmaker, has decided to do something that’ll put filming and seeing into just one eye, quite literally.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10190801-1.html