What, if any, cybernetic augmentation would you want for regular life?

[Guest]

I don't have a problem with cybernetic augmentation, I mostly would have a problem with the state of technology companies. I likely wouldn't choose to get any because I would not be able to trust them. However, if I could get any sorta (relatively) basic augmentation, it would be built in headphones. Like to just be able to "hear" music and podcasts and audiobooks. My focus wouldn't even be upgraded hearing or anything.

So do y'all have any similar quality of life augmentations you would want?

[ittihadche@lemmy.ml]

Give me mechanical tentacles like doc ock. I wouldn't want to replace anything.

[brkdncr@lemmy.world]

slow down my brain on demand so boring repetitive tasks feel fast forwarded.

[Guest]

A brain/computer interface. But like you say, depending on the state of tech companies maybe only as an input (I can manipulate computers without allowing them to send a signal of any kind to me).

It'd just be for stuff like mentally dictating note taking, being able to "Google" my thoughts (probably best to send the output to my phone rather than directly into my brain)

[nemo@slrpnk.net]

Bionic ears, mine are shit.

[afkbrbchocolate@lemmy.world]

I've thought for many years that the first true cybernetics will be artificial eyes. If they can get self contained optic systems that fit into the eyeball space, it should be trivial to allow them to see a much wider spectrum, plus macro and telephoto. That would be cool. A computer interface for them would be awesome, but I'd have trust issues with that as well.

[Guest]

A hearing implant that works by audio mixing rather than just raising volume. I'm not deaf, but I have trouble filtering out background noise.

[tribblesbestfriend@startrek.website]

Right now my tinnitus is killing me soooo CyberEars … but if they comes with a subscriptions I’ll support them

[multifariace@lemmy.world]

Something like an eidetic memory chip would be splendid.

[tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Bionic eyes, mine are shit

[anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works]

functional ovaries

I don't want a pill. I want a full organ integrated into my body that releases hormones responsive to my body's natural rhythms and diet and environment.

I don't care if it's via cybernetic augmentation or a stem-cell grown uterus combo package.

[promitheas@programming.dev]

Vital sign monitoring system

Usb in something like my finger so i can connect to any pc and use it with my brain

Robotic limbs, mainly because its kind of a dream of mine to create affordable, diy-capable working prosthetics for people who cant afford them, especially if theyre for children/teens who seemingly double in size every half year.

[nokturne213@sopuli.xyz]

Same even if they only give me 20/20 vision

[strayce@lemmy.sdf.org]

Dermal plating. Like a flexible, slash-resistant, heatproof mesh under the skin. I work in a kitchen so it'd be nice to be able to ignore those pesky little nicks and burns.

[lumidaub@feddit.org]

New legs. Not special ones, just new ones that aren't shit. Man that sounds like a downer. I'll take a mechanical hand that doesn't hurt when I forget to take breaks from drawing for 12 hours. And some ocular implant to tell me the name of that person who just waved at me and who clearly knows me.

I can think of other things that sound cool on paper but I've consumed enough media to know that they're VERY bad ideas and not worth it.

[perishthethought@lemm.ee]

I've always wanted a [prehensile tail] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehensile_tail), cyber or natural.

[arehandoro@lemmy.ml]

A cortical stack that allows me to upload my brain to a computer, and make back ups or forks of myself.

[pleasestopasking@reddthat.com]

I too wouldn't actually do it because I don't trust corporations that would make this shit. But I've often dreamed of having a "think to text" option, like speech to text but without having to say it out loud. If this existed I'd have a first draft of a novel from all the plotting and imagining scenes and dialogue when I go on walks. It feels much harder to get the juices flowing when I'm at home with my computer.

[tkohldesac@lemmy.world]

Hell yes. Decades of tinnitus gone? Sign me up.

[brundlefly2077@sh.itjust.works]

Immediately came here to say TAKE MY EYES! My nose can’t take much more of this spectacles bullshit.