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The craziest part about all this is that, as he explains in an interview with Motherboard, no certified doctor could ever perform the operation required to get the chip inside his arm. Because it's nuts. So he instead had to get help from "body modification enthusiasts", the type of people who put stuff like horns under their foreheads

Interesting, but yuck. Did I say yuck? How does this guy not get an infection?

 

[skybald]

Gross

 

[Borgnine]

How does this guy not get an infection?

AVG

 

[Zuhzuhzombie!!]

6 weeks from now:

"Man who put computer in arm dies of sepsis".

 

[Valtýr]

It's already out of date.

 

[Dennis]

What anti-virus is he using?

 

[ElectricBlue187]

I get the coolness of body modification but this is just gross.

 

[TheContact]

looks like he shoved a hard drive in there, that thing is huge

 

[collige]

The idea isn't THAT awful, but I can't imagine why anyone would want something that huge implanted under their skin. At least wait a few years until the size drops down.

 

[Kwixotik]

Leave him alone, he's just expressing himself.

Spoiler

lol what an idiot

 

[CrunchyFrog]

AVG

Masterful.

Sepsis? Maybe. Metal poisoning is more likely, though.

 

[LulaBrasi]

Those stitches look as bad as the ones on the Note 3

 

[kazebyaka]

 

[Kaladin]

The idea isn't THAT awful, but I can't imagine why anyone would want something that huge implanted under their skin. At least wait a few years until the size drops down.

Next year's model will be .5 mm thinner, and then two years after that they'll have Arm PC Mini which decreases the foot print in your arm to barely a bump.

Then they'll introduce the Arm PC Mini 2 which upgrades the processing power by 3 times of the original Arm PC Mini.

 

[Beardz]

AVG

Sheeeeeiiiit!

 

[chickdigger802]

you forgot to quote the reason.

German Tim Cannon is a "biohacker". That unsightly bulge on his arm there is where he stuck a giant computer chip beneath his skin, which transmits his biometric data to Android devices.

nothing wrong with having that data, but i can see the device being that massive leading to complications.

 

[studyguy]

All that to transmit biometric data?

If you're going that far, put a transmitter on a bracelet or something less invasive and risky.

 

[twobear]

Stands to reason that he uses Android.

 

[kris.]

Future recipient of a Darwin Award.

What an idiot.

 

[djplaeskool]

AVG

10/10

 

[Friggz]

AVG

*slow clap*

 

[Dragoon En Regalia]

Neat idea, poor execution, 6.6/10.

Really, I don't see how this won't be outmoded anytime soon.

 

[Alcotholic]

Uhhh........ Why?

...transmits his biometric data to Android devices.

Uhhh........ Why?

 

[Mesoian]

AVG

#Dead

Uhhh........ Why?



Uhhh........ Why?

The comedy of it is that there are devices about the size of your thumbnail taht you can wear as an earring that do the same thing.

This guy is going to lose his arm.

 

[ZedIndyLil]

Ugh, need a warning in the thread title...My goodness.

 

[Divvy]

Confused by why all of that had to be under his skin. Couldn't have just stuck the probes there and left the rest of it outside?

 

[slit]

OP did you mean "hulking" computer? I don't see anything in the article about the machine honking.

 

[WorldStar]

 

[GulAtiCa]

The way it looks, seems like it's about to break through the skin. Esp around the dges. Really does not look comfortable.

 

[-COOLIO-]

he did this record body temp stuff but i feel like you can get that externally fairly easily.

 

[MilesWebber]

AVG

A master class in posting here, folks.

 

[Nibel]

"I asked for this"

 

[JDSN]

Pretty sure there are external portable ways to register your body fluctuations.

 

[Stet]

That looks like an Android phone. There was seriously no way to make it smaller?

 

[Technosteve]

What biometric information do you get for an entire device to be inside your body?

 

[Kaladin]

That looks like an Android phone. There was seriously no way to make it smaller?

First gen tech bra, gotta start out big and sell the size decreases in future upgrades.

 

[Valhelm]

Is there any way to use that device, or is it the same as just shoving a deck of playing cards under your arm?

 

[Dynedom]

AVG

*dead*

 

[collige]

Next year's model will be .5 mm thinner, and then two years after that they'll have Arm PC Mini which decreases the foot print in your arm to barely a bump.

Then they'll introduce the Arm PC Mini 2 which upgrades the processing power by 3 times of the original Arm PC Mini.

I think it's actually a fairly real concern. At some point in the future (hopefully in our lifetime), these sort of cybernetic upgrades will become a real thing and keeping your body from being obsolete will probably be a lot more difficult than replacing your iPhone.

 

[MilesWebber]

Also, Should have waited for those curved displays coming next month!

 

[slit]

Anyway, he's going to be sorry when his body starts rejecting it or an infection breaks out.

 

[LabouredSubterfuge]

Based on the thread title I was really hoping that the computer's sole function was to make honking sounds.

 

[chickdigger802]

I think it's actually a fairly real concern. At some point in the future (hopefully in our lifetime), these sort of cybernetic upgrades will become a real thing and keeping your body from being obsolete will probably be a lot more difficult than replacing your iPhone.

only for the first time. standards will be developed and you can just screw on the hot new arm without an issue.

 

[Stet]

only for the first time. standards will be developed and you can just screw on the hot new arm without an issue.

Until the standards are made obsolete and you have to buy a PCI-card to connect your new USB 5.0 arm.

 

[Newline]

AVG

Ohhhh lawddd.

 

[TheMan]

pretty unsightly and probably dangerous at this point, but I think that technology like this will be commonplace in the future. he's taking one for the team (in an unsafe way)

 

[Kaladin]

Until the standards are made obsolete and you have to buy a PCI-card to connect your new USB 5.0 arm.

And then years later you'll find out that the arm is becoming obsolete and people are going limbless.