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...Baldwins are proud to display the rampant eclecticism that is widely accepted as the hallmark of talent. They wind between genres with sinuous ease, never entirely shedding the lithe upright bass lines and high-hat/scratch duels that are their signature sound. “The Bionic Jam” verges on techno, with its driving samples and “Better, faster, stronger/ We have the technology” sloganeering. The Baldwins then swerve into the appropriately kitschily titled “Lava lamp,” which playfully flirts with the sound of elevator muzak in its psychedelic...
Prudent or not, implant technology is racing ahead with bionic speed. Kevin Warwick, a professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading in England, is working on the next step. In a few weeks, he will receive an implant that will wirelessly connect the nerves in his arm to a PC. The computer will record the activity of his nervous system and stimulate the nerves to produce small movements and sensations; such an implant could eventually help a person suffering from paralysis to move parts of the body the brain can't reach. If all goes well, Warwick will...
...patients to restore vision, treat brain disorders and help victims of paralysis regain motor function, while engineers are creating hybrid prosthetic body parts such as ankles, legs and knees in which silicon chips are melded with living tissue. Computers are moving off the desktop - and making our bodies bionic...
Another facet of the bionic future is taking shape in a second-floor laboratory at the University of Louvain in Brussels. There Marie, a 63-year-old Belgian woman, is treated to visions of red, blue and yellow dots arranged in neat little rows like the tops of Lego building blocks. Glimpses of Lego bricks are hardly worth getting excited about, but Marie is enthralled - because she's blind...
...James Geary 2002. This is an edited excerpt from Geary's book The Body Electric: An Anatomy of the New Bionic Senses, published in the U.K. by Weidenfeld & Nicolson