To be honest, I expected a lot more from this story than what it turned out to be. They said you’ve got to check out this video of the latest trend, body hacking. When I heard trend I thought well, fine, we are due for a new trend, will this be as big as vampires, as rock and roll, as the hula hoop? When I heard body hacking I got visions of people becoming semi-androids with artificial features, (Oscar Pistorius’ legs are just the beginning), I thought people were going to have telescopic eyes and other superpowers.
I don’t know if that’s an eye or an ear
It turned out to be a bunch of people in silly suits, some guy who’d had an ear inserted into his arm which was pretty trippy but ultimately pointless and kind of gross, and a couple of guys who were doing sort of a high tech jackass routine where they had their faces pulled every which way by electronic twitching.
The name sounds cool, though. Body Hacking. This goes way beyond tattoos and piercing. If you get a pair of artificially designed eyes implanted you could make them so they would see in infrared and ultra-violet, shoot out laser beams and pop out on a spring at random comical moments. That’d impress the ladies.
You could get a pair of ears that would pick up conversations through thick walls, have 17 fingers, two heads, whatever you like. Body hacking.
I’m sure it’s the wave of the future, but I think I’ll just wait until the Google glasses come down in price and maybe try that first.
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