I don’t have a problem with cybernetic augmentation, I mostly would have a problem with the state of technology companies. I likely wouldn’t choose to get any because I would not be able to trust them. However, if I could get any sorta (relatively) basic augmentation, it would be built in headphones. Like to just be able to “hear” music and podcasts and audiobooks. My focus wouldn’t even be upgraded hearing or anything.

So do y’all have any similar quality of life augmentations you would want?

  • HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone
    9·
    1 day ago

    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

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee
    5·
    2 days ago

    If it were guaranteed safe, I would get a regulator installed to control level of sleep. Something that could send you to sleep quickly and send a wakeup impulse at a designated time. Sleep quality would be a game changer

  • latenightnoir@lemmy.world
    53·
    2 days ago

    Honestly, I’d go the full cyborg route, like in Ghost in the Shell. This would be my first step toward adjusting my consciousness to existing within and controlling an artificial environment, ultimately aiming for fully uploaded consciousness. I’d want to exist as a cyborg for a couple of decades, then I want to be uploaded into an autonomous space probe with as many sensor types as possible and left to explore the Universe (+/- relativistic speeds, I don’t really care). BUT I’d also want the possibility to erase myself, because I most certainly wouldn’t want to live forever. At least, not as I see it now. This is the purely sci-fi version.

    In the realistic version, a cybernetic eye and a logic co-processor to increase my background process bandwidth. Sure, a brain-computer interface would also be nice, but I somehow suspect I’d get nostalgic for the clackety-clacks and would most likely revert to analog interfacing after a point (for which I’d like that “fingers within fingers” prosthetic from GitS).

    Unless, of course, Musk (or any other such) will be handling said cybermods, in which case none, thanks. I’d rather just decay and die as a basic human being than have such people tinker with my bits.

  • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • lattrommi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      91·
      2 days ago

      a HUD would be cool with a bionic eyes I think, so i could ‘see’ a list of stats. temperature, barometric pressure, direction of sound origin, my to do list, personal vitals like BP and heart rate, I could go on.

      that would unfortunately have the same inherent trust issues as any company that made them would surely try to phone home with that data and probably try to insert ads and shit too.

  • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • lattrommi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      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.

    • spicy pancake@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      I really want a tattoo but hate commitment so I’m holding out for e-ink tats being invented in my lifetime 🤞

  • The Menemen@lemmy.ml
    21·
    2 days ago

    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).

  • weremacaque@lemmy.world
    19·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world
    17·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • SomethingBlack@lemmy.world
    15·
    3 days ago

    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)