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Here is a sales video of a fully automated sentry gun – auto-detecting humans, shooting them or accepting surrender. Video, infrared, 5.5 mm. Developed by Samsung, together with the University of South Korea. Why Korea? Because they use them to guard the border. Some more info.

• Cyberpunk Tech 11 – Bodymonitor/Killdisplay
• Cyberpunk Tech 10 – Cybernetic implants
• Cyberpunk Tech 9 – Cyberarm
• Cyberpunk Tech 8 – Exosceleton
• Cyberpunk Tech 7 – Brain-Computer interface
• Cyberpunk Tech 6 – Cyberarm
• Cyberpunk Tech 5 – Autos and motorcycles
• Cyberpunk Tech 4 – Cybereye with telescope
• Cyberpunk Tech 3 – Bionic Arm
• Cyberpunk Tech 2 – artifical hand and muscles
• Cyberpunk Tech 1 – Roboter tastert ohne humane Kontrolle Menschen

A subdermal display, that runs on blood? With a touchscreen? Its here. And yes, it has bluetooth build in allready. Kind of scary how fast reality is catching up with my cyberpunk books. Guys, please start working on muscle & bone lace. That would be the perfect cure for back ache…

• Cyberpunk Tech 10 – Cybernetic implants
• Cyberpunk Tech 9 – Cyberarm
• Cyberpunk Tech 8 – Exosceleton
• Cyberpunk Tech 7 – Brain-Computer interface
• Cyberpunk Tech 6 – Cyberarm
• Cyberpunk Tech 5 – Autos and motorcycles
• Cyberpunk Tech 4 – Cybereye with telescope
• Cyberpunk Tech 3 – Bionic Arm
• Cyberpunk Tech 2 – artifical hand and muscles
• Cyberpunk Tech 1 – Roboter tastert ohne humane Kontrolle Menschen

Technology Review hat einen spannenden Artikel:

Im Mittelpunkt der Forschungsarbeit steht ein Sensor, der sich derzeit in Entwicklung befindet und der kontinuierlich Blut, Schweiß und sogar Tränen des Soldaten nach Biomarkern durchleuchten kann. All diese Körperflüssigkeiten enthalten Glucose, Sauerstoff, Lactase und das Hormon Noradrenalin – und ihre Werte fluktuieren in Abhängigkeit zum Gesundheitszustand und zur aktuellen Aktivität einer Person. Spezifische Veränderungen bei diesen Stoffen können also eine Verletzung anzeigen. Sobald der Sensor diese erfasst hat, könnte er die Informationen dann an einen Prozessor weiterleiten, um sie auszuwerten. Von dort aus wird dann je nach Bedarf über ein Kontrollsystem eine passende Medikation verabreicht.

Der Biomonitor heilt also gleich auch. Cool.

Unter den Hunderten von Sensoren in Wangs Büro gibt es einige, von denen er glaubt, dass sie sich als gute Modelle eignen. Einer, der sich zu einem engen Zylinder zusammenrollen lässt, ist so klein, dass er in einen Tränenkanal passen würde. Ein anderer, größerer besitzt einen kleinen subkutanen Sensor, der unter der Haut sitzt. “Wir wollen etwas, das minimal invasiv ist, am besten etwas non-invasives. Geprüft werden sollen Tränenflüssigkeit, Speichel oder Schweiß”, sagt er.

I stumbled upon this story, which I found esp. interesting. The point of the story is what happens if you mesh cyberware with a social network. Think Facebook: You can see what your friends do, which new friends they have, what they read, what they are fan of, what they think. You learn a lot about them, even stuff they wouldn’t told you if met personally or stimply stuff you would have never dared to ask. Like that the new girlfriend is a better kisser then the old one.

Or photos. Do these people realise that someday they will have to apply for a job? Yes, we like your degree, but don’t employ people so drunk they show their private parts on parties, thank you very much.

Twitter is often worse. But a computer could probably learn more about you by analysing the banalties you twittered then by accessing the NSA databases.

The next step (which Facebook is slow to adapt, but others are allready using) is adding the use of a mobile device. You can twitter from your mobile phone, and Facebook can be accessed with the iphone. So add to your Facebook profile: Location (the new Iphone has GPS), Pictures (every mobile device has a camera) and commenting on the go. The pressure to comment will rise: Imagine a 16 year old from Manhattan. His Facebook tells us he’s in Kansas. No, not even in Kansas City, but is some 2-dog town. How humiliation for our fashionable adolescent. He MUST tell his friends how much he hates being there and that is only because his Grandmas 70th Birthday and stuff.

Next step: Cyberware. Add Emotions (detected by the amount of hormones in the blood and the blood pressure). Effortless commenting. Photos taken with the eye, Status of your friends always available. Feeling connected to them. Tom feels fear? Mary has an orgasm? You’ll know as soon as they do. And all for 400 eb.

Cyberware: Social Network Plugin. HC 0.5 Requires a Basic Neuro Processor. Works well with Cybereye, Cyberear, Headup Display, Phonesplice, portable Ebook and or Cybermodem of most brands.

The fantastic sci-fi blog io9 has a great article on cybernetic implants. I’ll just steal the linked YouTube vids and then point you to their article.

Ah, right, the link.

• Cyberpunk Tech 9 – Cyberarm
• Cyberpunk Tech 8 – Exosceleton
• Cyberpunk Tech 7 – Brain-Computer interface
• Cyberpunk Tech 6 – Cyberarm
• Cyberpunk Tech 5 – Autos and motorcycles
• Cyberpunk Tech 4 – Cybereye with telescope
• Cyberpunk Tech 3 – Bionic Arm
• Cyberpunk Tech 2 – artifical hand and muscles
• Cyberpunk Tech 1 – Roboter tastert ohne humane Kontrolle Menschen