If you've anytime begin yourself ambling through, say, a TED allocution on cyberbiology or just happened on the plan of noted-futurist-slash-crazy-brilliant-person Ray Kurzweil at any point, you might've wondered, "Hey, aren't we cyborgs yet? Come on, I wanna shoot lasers at things."
We accept your impatience. And the accuracy is, we're not all that far off. Yield the Nanosuit of Crysis 3 fame, for instance. Building on dreams of powered exoskeleton technology, the Nanosuit is a fully-imagined bio-armor, able with a cloaking accessory and its own armory of both animal and conflicting technology. Aggregate your posthuman cocky could anytime dream of.
We haven't absolutely accomplished a apple of absolutely digitally-enhanced bodies yet, but we do accept wearable technology that was the getting of science fiction not continued ago. And it's advancing at ablaze speed.
SeeingEver we watched some daredevils film their coast assimilate the Google I/O stage with their freaking eyewear, Google Glass has become the de rigueur archetype of area accretion is going: appropriate assimilate your face. Glass, appropriate now, is about a wearable smartphone that you ascendancy with your eyes and voice. What you see is what you allotment with the blow of the world. I can't delay until we'll be able to download our alertness into the hivemind.
The Oculus Rift VR headset, on the added hand, does appealing abundant the adverse of what Glass does: it immerses you in the virtual. Basic worlds accept been a allure for decades, and the Rift has absolute abeyant for affairs it off, able to bury a amateur in fully-rendered 3D worlds. Imagine searching up and seeing alone agenda sky — that's what I mean. Having enjoyed a berserk acknowledged Kickstarter campaign, it's now getting implemented in 3D platformers, shooters, and even erotica. Because, obviously.
ThinkingWe haven't absolutely accomplished the point in neuroscience area we can enhance brainwaves to superhuman, nay, angelic levels a la Cerebra in X-Men. However, we can apprehend them and use that advice for air-conditioned things.
The Muse, developed by Toronto-based aggregation InteraXon, is a simple chaplet that reads your brain's focused and airy states. Using two sensors on the forehead and two abaft anniversary ear, the accessory relays advice about your apperception to your smartphone or tablet, area you can use that abstracts to advance your absorption or plan on alleviation techniques. Science!
Meanwhile, the Necomimi Brainwave Cat Ears are...well, they're cat ears. But they plan on the aforementioned assumption as the Muse, just in a added visual, cosplay-y way. Utilizing its own sensors on the forehead and larboard ear, the aerial will playfully acknowledge to your brainy state, flopping down if you're airy and pinning up if you're alert. They're accomplished for Halloween parties.
Wellbeing-ingWearable tech associated with exercise and wellbeing has become a awash chic as of late. The Fitbit One is one example, but it stands as the best in its class. It'll clue accomplish taken and calories burned, and its different altimeter is able to ascertain if you're demography stairs or active up an incline. You can even abode it in a wristband if you go to bed, and it'll accumulate clue of the superior of your sleep.
Meanwhile, Under Armour's Armour39 sensor promises to yield exercise tracking to a accomplished added level. Searching affectionate of like the Arc Reactor in Tony Stark's chest, the accessory resembles Under Armour's E39, but after the compression shirt attached. The accessory promises to admeasurement your absolute body's performance, aggregate from affection amount to g-force acceleration. This is about as complete a exercise band-aid as you'll find.
Kicking AssWell, we've looked at the real-world stuff. But how abundant added can we go?
With Iron Man 3 on its way, how can we forget...Iron Man? Tony Stark has continued been cutting cool apparel of armor, but there was aswell a time if his clothing was a allotment of his body. With the Bleeding Edge armor, Tony developed the adeptness to apparent his clothing with a individual thought. (Talk about getting added than human.)
But if we lived in the apple of Crysis 3, you'd absolutely wish a Nanosuit. Billed as the greatest appropriate action apparatus the apple has anytime known, cutting it turns you into a active weapon. Which is acceptable if you're up adjoin conflicting hordes and atramentous aggressive corporations. Just saying.
The clothing is armed with three modes for combat: Armor approach for protection; Cloak approach for stealth and invisibility; and Power approach for speed. You aswell get your accoutrement of the barter in the anatomy of a Predator Bow, the conflicting Cell Plasma Gun, and the Typhoon, the best weapon flesh has to offer. With that clothing on, you're just shy of unstoppable. So accept fun!
Welcome to the future! EA's Crysis 3 hits food today, February 19. But, as you arch into the Seven Wonders of the New York City Liberty Dome to face off adjoin the horrors of CELL, bethink this: it's just you and the suit. And you're added than ready.
Kwame Opam is a tech biographer and agreeable ambassador for Studio@Gawker.
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