Business of Life

The Upgradable You

Redefining what it is to be be human, Popular Mechanics looks at The Upgradable You.

How about nanobots powered by glucose to clean your arteries for decades?
Or living islet cells inside microscopic chips releasing just the right amount of insulin at the right time?
Or superbones that merge with your real bones?

This is way beyond Cyborgs. It's Homo Technicus.