Author: BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY – The Living Body
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Réflexion autour du corps hybride _ Oscar Pistorius
OSCAR PISTORIUS, PARADIGME DU CORPS HYBRIDE L’homme réparé peut-il être égal au corps de l’homme normal ? Cette interrogation médico-éthique n’est pas sans rappeler les controverses des jeux Olympiques autour de l’athlète paralympique Oscar Pistorius _ coureur double amputé des jambes courant sur des prothèses en carbone surnommé « Blade runner » ou « l’homme…
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Cybersex
CYBERSEX We find here concerns with how to make love in 2050 (see the French magazine Usbek & Rica, “Faire l’amour en 2050″, n°5: p.16-33). This is a page regarding the Brain-Machine interfaces, and more precisely haptic technology _ that is a tactile feedback technology which takes advantage of the sense of touch by applying…
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Human Brain Project
THE BRAIN The Human Brain Project (HBP) is a research project which aims to simulate the human brain with supercomputers to better understand how it functions. The end hopes of the HBP include being able to mimic the human brain using computers and being able to better diagnose different brain problems, as well as to…
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Bionic man (London Museum, 01/2013)
BIONIC MAN @ LONDON SCIENCE MUSEUM. Created for a Channel 4 documentary (01/2013) to prove just how closely technology can emulate the human body, Rex – short for “robotic exoskeleton” – has been put together by the Shadow robotics company using artificial limbs and organs borrowed from the laboratories of leading scientists from as far…
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