Giving new meaning to the term 'finger drive'

[ksmith]

A Finnish computer programmer who lost one of his fingers in a motorcycle accident has made himself a prosthetic replacement with a USB drive attached.

Mr Jalava says he is already thinking about upgrading the finger to include more storage and wireless technology.

"I'm planning to use another prosthetic as a shell for the next version, which will have removable fingertip and RFID tag," he wrote on his blog, ProtoBlogr.net.

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[e-moon60.livejournal.com]

Cochlear implants are already here and have been for years. There's a fascinating book (that I can't find today, of course!) by a man who had one and thought seriously about how the human/machine interface changed things. Cochlear implants aren't just implanted hearing aids--they're a direct connection that involves teaching both brain and implant to work together. Weird indeed.