Volume control for the ears, with equalizer, decibel normalizer, and active noise cancelling.
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Active noise cancelling for this fucking tinnitus would be a godsend
I used to think a future with cyborgs would be pretty cool but personally, I'm not so hot on the idea anymore. The problem is that you would be beholden to whichever corporation or government manufactures and pays for parts. And who is to say that the support for whichever product that you've surgically implanted will be for life, and that you won't end up with useless landfill electronics sewed up inside of you.
Personally I think that if AI was ever made with altruistic purposes, that could fill the role of things like complex calculations and extra memory or a log. And good Augmented Reality could fill the role of interacting directly with entertainment and blocking out the outside world. And maybe one day there would be effective ways of interacting directly with computers through electrodes or even wirelessly. Although who knows how our privacy would be invaded then. There could be literal thought police in that case.
The problem is that the tech will always come from someone else. Imagine integrating this kind of tech into your life on such a deep level and then the person in charge of over seeing and maintaining this tech turns out to be an authoritarian nazi.
You mean like our real-life situation with Neuralink and the new Nazi called Elon Musk?
Cyborg butthole
Improved eye (singular), a second thumb on right hand, internal physical storage, modular left arm with power tool extensions, a nose and jawline that are very clearly technological but don't do anything else, and a set of integrated wheelies
A brainchip would be amazing. But realistically no corporation should be in your head.
This would enable real life language translation, internet functions, scanning, a hud of vitals etc.
throws Shadowrun 2 street samurai catalog on table
This.
arms. hate my current arms and could greatly benefit from sci fi ones
Mechanical βeyesβ that correct my vision.
I would want a body pocket of at least 100 cmΒ³, some volume controler for ears, and (personnal interest) a fully engineerable right eye
joints that don't wear down over time
A way to monitor and regulate body chemistry or neural action would be nice. Change and directly see my stress and sleepiness levels, regulate pain at will if necessary etc. I think there would be tons of uses for things like that.
I wanna see the hype about regular colour. Iβve got red green blue yellow colourblindness. I wanna see how things are meant to be coloured.
New skin. It doesnβt need to be fancy, just no more scars and a better fit.
Fancy skin wishlist:
- No drying and flaking
- No sweaty palms
- No hangnails
- Impenetrable by mosquitos
- Immunity to paper cuts
A skin that isn't trying to kill itself would be pretty high on my list. Along with parts that are falling apart from old age. But I'm not sure those would be augmentations so much as bug fixes.
None cause if I have to blast all the synths out there I donβt wanna lose pieces or, worse yet, die
I've often wished for a searchable brain. No more not being able to think of that thing or someone's name or what exactly happened when.
Cyber eyes. I have thick glasses and a lot of floaters, so many that I cannot even tell if my glasses are clean or not most of the time.
But naturally they'd need to look natural and be with zoom, infrared, night vision, a camera function and a video playing function (no wireless functions though).
I want to give birth to our techno overlord's robot babies.
I have a rare lung condition, so I'd want a full double lung transplant and new heart. Maybe just make my chest entirely clear like a computer case.
And chop off both of my feet and give me something new. Not for any real reason, I just hate feet and would rather have springs or something else.
Tank tracks.
Bionic ears, mine are shit.
Hell yes. Decades of tinnitus gone? Sign me up.
A math coprocessor would be nice. Ability to instantly know the answer to equations I see, and ability to do large calculations in my head.
Also, some sort of interface port where I could upload skills or information, matrix-style. And it would have to be a physical port, no fucking way I'd want that available wirelessly.
Where would that be a significant upgrade over entering the numbers on a calculator?
No time-delay for inputting the numbers, ability to process any calculation (which calculators can't), and no need to carry an actual calculator around.
Typing in integrals gets old rather quickly
Ability to any calculations in my head at all would be nice, now that I think about it.
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.
extreme cum
Are we talking volume or velocity
Ghost pepper flavor
Is your tolerance upgraded as well or is this a mutually assured destruction situation
yea
This might sound nuts but, programmable/shifting tattoos.
Like, it could detect elevated levels of cortisol in your blood or increased heart rate and then just gently pulse or warm up to a comforting temperature as a way calm you down or remind you to breathe. Or light up like a custom RGB keyboard, or change colors/holographic effects depending on time of day. Anything really.
Octopus skin. Neat.
I really want a tattoo but hate commitment so I'm holding out for e-ink tats being invented in my lifetime π€
A tattoo that works like a sign on the forehead that says "warning: grumpy" that lights up accordingly, would be useful for all of society in my opinion.
Bionic back, mine is shit.
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.
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)
Give me mechanical tentacles like doc ock. I wouldn't want to replace anything.
Exoskeletons are almost viable already. Climbing a major hike without breaking a sweat is a real dream for outdoors people
Though number one for me would be personal temperature control. Imagine having the perfect ac everywhere you go. Somehow scifi ignores this idea but that would change everything.
Also cybernetic eyes obviously.
Temp control would be at the top of my list. I don't handle heat well. I think I'm evolutionary primed to chase other mammals across vast frozen tundra. Summers are tough and getting tougher.