It’s a whole new world when the Internet of Things is part of you. In the future, everyone will be IoT-enhanced — bodies and minds connected via the internet to other things and people, everyone enhanced beyond normal human abilities.

Join  Andreea and Charles as they go beyond wearables, and discuss a future where “the Internet of Things…is people!”

Topics

* Dumb (passive) prosthetics vs. smart (active) prosthetics

* Hugh Herr, MIT Media Lab

* Powered ankle/foot prosthesis

* How are these smart prosthetics be part of the IoT?

* Benefits of connecting to your central nervous system

* Darpa’s touch-sensitive prosthetic

* Australian study on improving vision in mice

* Argus 2 retinal prosthetic system

* Bionic Vision Australia’s bionic eye

* Type 1 diabetes

* IoT pancreas

* Internet of Nano-Things?

* Sperm-bots

* How do you power something that’s embedded inside your body?

* Security: When hacks can kill

* Intimacy and consequences of prosthetics vs. implants

* Transhumanism and humanity’s conflicted relationship with enhancement

* Sports

* LZR Racer swimsuit broke 168 world records this year

* Banned as performance-enhancing substance in the Vancouver 2010 Olympics

* Military

* What happens when the Internet is in everyone’s brain?

* What happens when we can’t disconnect?

* Life extension

* Upgrades (!)

* Timeframes

* Flexible and temporary form factors

* How the IoT changes drug administration

* More personalized health

* 3D printing and prosthetics