#bodyhackers

[bestofbaptista]

new still of alba baptista as stephanie in “bodyhackers”

[archivealbaptista]

ALBA BAPTISTA in new promotional still as Stephanie in ‘Bodyhackers’

[fernand0]

Bodyhackers are all around you, they’re called women | Fusion

[ndjworldnews-blog-blog]

Biohackers Are Becoming The New Humanoid

LOS ANGELES – They call themselves ‘biohackers’ or ‘bodyhackers’; a specific group of individuals who strive to improve and extend the limitations of the human body by implanting electronic or digital components, giving them additional capabilities. Magnetic...

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[sabrelabs]

Wicked Witch of the Wetware: Crystal Balling 2020 Biohacks

Today I had the opportunity to attend a mini-conference our Sabre Holdings CTO hosts each year called “Black Dogs” where 40 people from across the company from every flavor of business unit, team, & skill set come together for two days to challenge our thinking and push each other to shift once again into cleaning out the trend cobwebs, and replacing them with the next round of cutting edge opportunities just around the corner.

We spend time studying the next wave of cutting edge technologies that should become our top-of-mind focus as others fade into old news status… before we do this refresh all over once again just a quarter or two later. And again. And again.

Just as it absolutely should be.

Our first day consisted of a large handful of internal & external speakers in addition to everyone in attendance giving a 60 second pitch on what they think is the most fascinating technology coming in the next 2-5 years that could change how now only we experience travel, but also live in general as humans.

My topic was one Mark McSpadden - head of technology for Sabre Labs - introduced to me a couple of years ago and that we continue to “geek out” on as a topic within our team fairly often.

Biohacking. Combining science + biology to upgrade or enhance your body’s capabilities or “features” if you will.

I think that same night I first started to learn about this crazy-cool underground movement, I was up until 4am reading everything I could get my hands on covering that topic.

This wasn’t just the same old squishy bracelet-based “wearable devices” schpiel or quantified self movement mobile app top ten list, although those are related and very important.

I’m instead talking legit, hardcore, work-out-of-a-shady-madscientist-basement, DNA, scalpel-toting biohackers.

They have pushed our ability to consider this question most aggressively in the last few years:

“What if you could ‘feel’ data? What would that experience entail?

Even beyond that and especially applicable to travel… what if you could touch what others can’t, or see what they don’t know exists?

Biohacker beginners kits usually start with a basic magnetic implant into your index finger, that today already can enable a significantly enhanced travel experience for those exploring this field.

So, in a very short 60 seconds, I tried fruitlessly to cover 4 use cases that this technology could enable for travelers in the next decade.

How could biohacking apply to travel?

1) What if instead of having to pull yourself out of the beauty of your surroundings or take your eyes off the road while driving to a meeting, you instead had index finger magnetic implants and felt a slight electro-wave pulse on your right or left finger telling you which direction you should be turning or heading in next, just like turn-by-turn navigation enables today. Taking GPS navigation off of a clumsy device and embedding it into our natural experiences as a human is the most logical evolution.

2) Or how about the business traveler desperately in need of a wifi connection… instead of wasting precious time going in to a coffee shop to check if they have a good wifi signal, what if your index finger can ‘feel’ the data to know this cafe has a strong available wifi connection & is worth your time to enter?

3) And even logging into your favorite travel apps or websites can be simpler - instead of maintaining 100 different usernames & passwords, what if you could login or authenticate that “you are you” simply through your thoughts?

4) Travelers would have unparalleled experiences by exposing this sixth sense while they traverse the world, exposing hidden data to them that is transmitted in ways that naturally flow in & out of their conscious without interrupting their experiences. And for the visually or hearing impaired, it can turn a travel experience into something they’ve never before had the chance to enjoy… for example, what if vivid colors in a sunset could be communicated instead through sound, or vice versa?

The possibilities really are endless. At the end of the day…

Biohacking will enable us to respond intuitively to data encountered for the first time such as new smells or sounds… it not only adds a sixth sense of sorts, but does so by enhancing all of your other senses and enables humans to truly “listen” and “act” intuitively in context at any given time, while finally no longer having our life interrupted by these cumbersome, clunky devices such as smartphones or what Google Glasses will become.

By 2020, I suggested it would be highly likely that technology companies, even industry-specific companies such as those in travel, would be coming to the realization that hiring biohackers, or wetware developers, as a new area of focus within core technology teams would become critical to that company’s long-term ability to stay relevant.

And for Sabre, it’s exciting to imagine what all could be possible in terms of biohacking a person’s ability to have a travel experience that ventures drastically beyond the norm of even their most cherished personal travel memory in history.

While 2020 may sound quite soon, the underground movement of hackers pushing this concept forward seem as though they will continue to go cyborg-balls-to-the-biometric-wall as much as possible before any government intervention or regulation becomes apparent.

I think I can safely speak for my comrades in Labs to say we can’t wait for this technology to truly start take off, because no doubt we’ll find a way to do some related experimentation… but mainly and of course more importantly because it would give me a chance to don the coolest/geekiest halloween costume ever next year as the Wicked Witch of the Wetware West.

Now, where’s my bio-broom. This witch’s Pei-Wei take-out order awaits.

-SKE

[viperslang]

[viperslang]

Cannon got his own neodymium magnetic implant a year before Sarver. Putting these rare earth metals into the body was pioneered by artists on the bleeding edge of piercing culture and transhumanists interested in experimenting with a sixth sense.Steve Haworth, who specializes in the bleeding edge of body modification and considers himself a "human evolution artist," is considered one of the originators, and helped to teach a generation of practitioners how to perform magnetic implants, including the owner of Hot Rod Piercing in Pittsburgh. (Using surgical tools like a scalpel is a grey area for piercers. Operating with these instruments, or any kind of anesthesia, could be classified as practicing medicine. Without a medical license, a piercer who does this is technically committing assault on the person getting the implant.) On its own, the implant allows a person to feel electromagnetic fields: a microwave oven in their kitchen, a subway passing beneath the ground, or high-tension power lines overhead.