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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?

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functional ovaries

I don't want a pill. I want a full organ integrated into my body that releases hormones responsive to my body's natural rhythms and diet and environment.

I don't care if it's via cybernetic augmentation or a stem-cell grown uterus combo package.

I too wouldn't actually do it because I don't trust corporations that would make this shit. But I've often dreamed of having a "think to text" option, like speech to text but without having to say it out loud. If this existed I'd have a first draft of a novel from all the plotting and imagining scenes and dialogue when I go on walks. It feels much harder to get the juices flowing when I'm at home with my computer.

[โ€“] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Parallel processing. Sometimes when speaking or thinking, something comes to mind which is related but presents a fork. It would be cool to chase both branches

[โ€“] xep@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago

Wouldn't mind something that would fix my tinnitus.

[โ€“] Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I want an implant that can regulate body functions and even rejuvenate & regenerate me.

What would that mean?

  • Forever young
  • Adonis/Venus body
  • Some sort of self-healing capability
  • Some sort of body-shaping capability
  • Possibly immortal
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[โ€“] Lumidaub@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago

New legs. Not special ones, just new ones that aren't shit. Man that sounds like a downer. I'll take a mechanical hand that doesn't hurt when I forget to take breaks from drawing for 12 hours. And some ocular implant to tell me the name of that person who just waved at me and who clearly knows me.

I can think of other things that sound cool on paper but I've consumed enough media to know that they're VERY bad ideas and not worth it.

[โ€“] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Subdermal armour. Like a flexible, slash-resistant, heatproof mesh under the skin. I work in a kitchen so it'd be nice to be able to ignore those pesky little nicks and burns.

[โ€“] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And you could moonlight as a shadowrunner.

[โ€“] Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 points 1 day ago

That's all I want, chummer!

[โ€“] multifariace@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Something like an eidetic memory chip would be splendid.

Full cyborgisation. Just not one made by any capitalist entity.

[โ€“] SoulWager@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

I also have some trust issues. I'd rather not have spyware built into me.

That said if I could magically wave those problems away, I wouldn't say no to improved senses. Eyes that can see any wavelength from radio to x-rays, with different filters for wavelength and polarization available. Same for ears too.

I have actually considered(but not super seriously) getting a magnet implant so I could detect magnetic fields and current flowing in wires, what do you think the limit of that would be if you took it to an extreme?

Mental augmentations are a bit scarier. For multiple reasons.

[โ€“] Vonrazor@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My wife has Fibromyalgia so I'd love some cybernetic implant to dull her pain. Everything seems to hurt for her and something to block some of that and give some strength back to her hands and muscles would be great

[โ€“] corodius@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

only semi related, but there is some hope for us fibro peeps. There has been a lot of recent discoveries showing the autoimmune pathways of fibro and some of what may cause the issue. and we know for sure it is autoimmune now.

it isnt definitive answers but it IS progress and a heck of a lot more than we have had before!

[โ€“] perishthethought@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

I've always wanted a [prehensile tail] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehensile_tail), cyber or natural.

Vital sign monitoring system

Usb in something like my finger so i can connect to any pc and use it with my brain

Robotic limbs, mainly because its kind of a dream of mine to create affordable, diy-capable working prosthetics for people who cant afford them, especially if theyre for children/teens who seemingly double in size every half year.

[โ€“] HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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

[โ€“] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If we're going full sci-fi, I want to fall asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow, then go STRAIGHT to REM. ...and actually stay asleep long enough for any of that to mean jack.

[โ€“] DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd rather not need sleep at all, with the option to do it sometimes for skipping time

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[โ€“] Arehandoro@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A cortical stack that allows me to upload my brain to a computer, and make back ups or forks of myself.

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I really want some of the existing NFC and LED implants that are available, but I keep putting it off because Iโ€™m a bit squeamish about installing it myself and no professional service is near me.

[โ€“] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Right now my tinnitus is killing me soooo CyberEars โ€ฆ but if they comes with a subscriptions Iโ€™ll support my old one

[โ€“] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[โ€“] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

slow down my brain on demand so boring repetitive tasks feel fast forwarded.

[โ€“] MrSilkworm@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Not in order but I would like to have Bionic sight Bionic hearing Bionic joints Bionic smell Bionic sleep regulator Bionic metabolism regulator and a bionic muscle regulator

[โ€“] lattrommi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

a pair of working wings like a bat, a prehensile tail like a monkey that is strong enough to pick stuff up equally as my arms can, skin like a chameleon that can transition to the color and texture (visually) of my surroundings and regenerative cells like those immortal octopuses.

that's just for regular life, my ultimate fantasy version would have all that but also an improved ass, that sits in an office chair more comfortably so i can write TPS reports more efficiently and with better clarity.

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