“Calgary researchers have created a microchip that “communicates” with brain cells” An important step in the technology required for a fully functional biomonitor. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2010/08/10/calgary-neurochip-brain-cells-syed-alzheimers-parkinsons.html
One step closer to becoming a reality. The article has some good discussion about potential methods of powering them as well as other practical applications like functioning as a simple biomonitor. http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/augmented-reality-in-a-contact-lens/0
Eclipse Phase isn’t technically Shadowrun, but it’s produced by Posthuman Studios, which is headed up by long time Shadowrun Developer Rob Boyle and Shadowrun writer Brian Cross. It’s a fantastic game, and I strongly urge you all to check it out! – Bull The Eclipse Phase core book PDF is now available! You may also [...]
Thought your subvocal mic was keeping your communications private? Think again…. Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK are developing a computerized lip-reading system, which they say may be used to fight crime. Link to The Future of Things
Prototypes that will eventually lead to contact lenses with image link and vision enhancement upgrades are in the lab today. Another step towards augmented reality? You decide…. Engineers at the UW have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit [...]
Dumpshocker User McUser (we’re sure it’s his real name, it’s a Shadowrun board *grin*) let us in on this story coming out of the Allied German States. Thanks, omae. German scientists have found a way of transforming body heat into electricity using circuitry. The discovery means that we may be able to operate our mobile [...]
Okay, so my little title might be a bit of a stretch (*grin*), but this article does give us the rundown on some fascinating advances in synthetic muscle tissue, and it’s it looks like some of the first applications of this R&D will be things that our shared game world has had since day one. [...]
Researchers are looking at new ways to use old ideas by creating a nano-scale mechanical microchip. The military is already looking for potential applications of the tech. The article mentions the ability to survive in environments and situations, such as EMP, that would wreck traditional chips. Tell me these didn’t make their way into cyberware. [...]
Data storage and device capacities have always been somewhat nebulous in the Shadowrun rules. Sure, we had the “one minute of video takes up a megapulse” rule in SR3, but that has never stopped the debates over the exact “real life” size of the megapulse; how much text, how many pictures, and so on. Now, [...]
Think that gun you had whipped up that’s made of ceramic and plastic is going to get you through the front doors at SeaTac? Your GM probably has other things in mind. Like a chemsniffer cranked up to the point that it detects the perfume of that joytoy from last night that you thought you [...]