General

• Cyberpunk Project a file repository
• Hack Canada library of relevant links
• Interactive Brainwave Visual Analyzer unusual site with single channel EEG like device
• Brain Intro a great overview of the brain equipment
• Erowid where people treat psychoactives with respect and awareness
• Mind Machine from Magic Jim that does not work
• American Society of Cybernetics
• Samaritan Project
• DS console Titles including Brain Age, Big Brain Academy, and Ultimate Brain Games
• Here is a list of DOD programs too many to discuss in their entirety, but a few titles do jump out. Bio-Magnetic Interfacing Concepts, Human-Assisted Neural Devices, Neovision.
• Phillip Torrone, the creator of makezine, has built his own version of a wearable computer
• This might be a bit much for some of you. A Dr Stuart Meloy of North Carolina has invented an orgasm spinal implant for women. Supposedly it is being developed by Medtronic, but I can’t verify that for sure.
• Zarlink Semiconductor introduced a transceiver chip last year that is designed to facilitate wireless medical implants.

Control Supplementation

• Neural Systems Group a research project on BCI
• BioControl Systems mobile physiological monitoring and biosignal processing
• Biomechatronics at MIT
• Animazoo “as a midi controller, drum pad, midi keyboard, midi mixer, for sound, visuals and lights.”
• Cyberkinetics, Inc. BCI company
• Neurosky A semiconductor company that is developing a “non-invasive neural sensor and signal processing technology”

Perception Augmentation

Neurofeedback

Fourms

• BwGen brainwave generator forum
• Cyberpunks.org not much traffic but some great links
• BioPsy covering mind/body sciences, biofeedback, and much more

Acadamia

• Georgia Tech's Experimental Game Lab exploring the limits of perception
• Centre for Music Technology at the University of Glasgow, are trying to turn brainwaves into music
• Pain management program at the UW.
• At the Robotics Institute, a CMU associate research lab, the persuit of the integration of biology and technology continues at full speed. Everything from the Neurobotics lab where they “use robotics to enhance human sensory and neurological systems”, to complete brain-machine interfaces.
• Bill Newsome of Stanford University, implants an electrode into his own skull, to further research into the slippery concept of consciousness.
• I found this great link off Slashdot of network system perception augmentation. A research group at Sheridan College in Ontario, Canada has been working on a program that translates computer network activity into music.
• A great study from Rice University, published last year. Using TMS to temporarily shut down the visual cortex

Books

• Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age 2002 by Chris Grey it discusses everything from participatory evolution to cyborg babies. He makes the argument that in some ways the cyborgization of humanity has already affected everyone of us.
• Natural-Born Cyborgs : Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence 2003 by Andy Clark it makes the argument that with ubiquitous computing and transparent ambient technology we are living a cyborg existence.
• Cyberseduction: Reality in the Age of Psychotechnology 1999 by Dr. Jeri Fink, although it does not address the question on point, it discusses the psychology and even philosophy behind humanities attraction to this invasive technology.
• The Singularity Is Near : When Humans Transcend Biology 2005 by Ray Kurzweil it is the quintessential book to further the discussion, even if he has a fascination with enhancements via drugs that I do not share.
• Everything Bad Is Good for You, an interesting book attempting to show that modern culture of video games is actually making us smarter.
• Mind Wide Open in which Steven Johnson, subjected himself to variety of brain scan technology
• John Horgan, a well respected writer formally with Scientific American. His current book is Rational Mysticism. Cyborg books Mr. Horgan references: Digital People, Citizen Cyborg, I Cyborg, and Flesh and Machines, The Age of Spiritual Machines.
• If you are looking for several good books on a variety of unusual electronic experiments for beginners you should certainly check out the works of Newton C. Braga. Bionics and Mechatronics, both for the evil genius, are entertaining in their creativity if nothing else.
• If you are looking for a bit more serious science project, I have been reading a couple of books by Jan Axelson. Specifically the USB one, and soon the Embedded Systems compendium. I hope to get a chance to implement them into my next homebrew project.
• I come across a great book from Baroness Susan Greenfield Tomorrow’s People: How 21st-Century Technology Is Changing the Way We Think and Feel.
• The first, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, is a book by Dr. Oliver Sacks that describes clinical tales of rare psychological disorders, many of which you would claim we fictional if not carefully documented.
• The second, The Holographic Universe, is by Machael Talbot and less scientifically accepted, but filled with intriguing theories of the Brain and Body.

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