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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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[–] VirusMaster3073@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Speak any Human language

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

A magnum dong to go with my magnum condoms.

[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Volume control for the ears, with equalizer, decibel normalizer, and active noise cancelling.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 2 points 15 hours ago

As someone with misophonia, this is the one augment that will have me standing in line to be among the first to sign up. I would love nothing more than to be able to mute my girlfriend's annoying birds and their stupid repetitive screaming.

All those features you mentioned, plus the ability to focus my ears on specific sounds while eliminating the rest. Sign me the fuck up.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Active noise cancelling for this fucking tinnitus would be a godsend

[–] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Improved eye (singular), a second thumb on right hand, internal physical storage, modular left arm with power tool extensions, a nose and jawline that are very clearly technological but don't do anything else, and a set of integrated wheelies

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I used to think a future with cyborgs would be pretty cool but personally, I'm not so hot on the idea anymore. The problem is that you would be beholden to whichever corporation or government manufactures and pays for parts. And who is to say that the support for whichever product that you've surgically implanted will be for life, and that you won't end up with useless landfill electronics sewed up inside of you.

Personally I think that if AI was ever made with altruistic purposes, that could fill the role of things like complex calculations and extra memory or a log. And good Augmented Reality could fill the role of interacting directly with entertainment and blocking out the outside world. And maybe one day there would be effective ways of interacting directly with computers through electrodes or even wirelessly. Although who knows how our privacy would be invaded then. There could be literal thought police in that case.

The problem is that the tech will always come from someone else. Imagine integrating this kind of tech into your life on such a deep level and then the person in charge of over seeing and maintaining this tech turns out to be an authoritarian nazi.

[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

You mean like our real-life situation with Neuralink and the new Nazi called Elon Musk?

Mechanical β€œeyes” that correct my vision.

Cyborg butthole

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago

A way to monitor and regulate body chemistry or neural action would be nice. Change and directly see my stress and sleepiness levels, regulate pain at will if necessary etc. I think there would be tons of uses for things like that.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wanna see the hype about regular colour. I’ve got red green blue yellow colourblindness. I wanna see how things are meant to be coloured.

[–] Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 15 hours ago

You only see greyscale? O_o

[–] Elaine@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

New skin. It doesn’t need to be fancy, just no more scars and a better fit.

[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Fancy skin wishlist:

  • No drying and flaking
  • No sweaty palms
  • No hangnails
  • Impenetrable by mosquitos
  • Immunity to paper cuts
[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago

A skin that isn't trying to kill itself would be pretty high on my list. Along with parts that are falling apart from old age. But I'm not sure those would be augmentations so much as bug fixes.

[–] HotCoffee@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

A brainchip would be amazing. But realistically no corporation should be in your head.

This would enable real life language translation, internet functions, scanning, a hud of vitals etc.

[–] BackwardsUntoDawn@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

joints that don't wear down over time

[–] menemen@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Cyber eyes. I have thick glasses and a lot of floaters, so many that I cannot even tell if my glasses are clean or not most of the time.

But naturally they'd need to look natural and be with zoom, infrared, night vision, a camera function and a video playing function (no wireless functions though).

I've often wished for a searchable brain. No more not being able to think of that thing or someone's name or what exactly happened when.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bionic ears, mine are shit.

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[–] FiveFingerDisco@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

throws Shadowrun 2 street samurai catalog on table

This.

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

arms. hate my current arms and could greatly benefit from sci fi ones

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I've thought for many years that the first true cybernetics will be artificial eyes. If they can get self contained optic systems that fit into the eyeball space, it should be trivial to allow them to see a much wider spectrum, plus macro and telephoto. That would be cool. A computer interface for them would be awesome, but I'd have trust issues with that as well.

[–] Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

There are already cybernetic implants. I think pacemakers count as them.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Probably so

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[–] TheGuyTM3@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

I would want a body pocket of at least 100 cmΒ³, some volume controler for ears, and (personnal interest) a fully engineerable right eye

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Bionic eyes, mine are shit

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[–] Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have a rare lung condition, so I'd want a full double lung transplant and new heart. Maybe just make my chest entirely clear like a computer case.

And chop off both of my feet and give me something new. Not for any real reason, I just hate feet and would rather have springs or something else.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago

Tank tracks.

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This might sound nuts but, programmable/shifting tattoos.

Like, it could detect elevated levels of cortisol in your blood or increased heart rate and then just gently pulse or warm up to a comforting temperature as a way calm you down or remind you to breathe. Or light up like a custom RGB keyboard, or change colors/holographic effects depending on time of day. Anything really.

[–] werty@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Octopus skin. Neat.

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

I really want a tattoo but hate commitment so I'm holding out for e-ink tats being invented in my lifetime 🀞

[–] lattrommi@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago

A tattoo that works like a sign on the forehead that says "warning: grumpy" that lights up accordingly, would be useful for all of society in my opinion.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

A math coprocessor would be nice. Ability to instantly know the answer to equations I see, and ability to do large calculations in my head.

Also, some sort of interface port where I could upload skills or information, matrix-style. And it would have to be a physical port, no fucking way I'd want that available wirelessly.

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[–] Fourth@mander.xyz 17 points 2 days ago

Bionic back, mine is shit.

[–] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

None cause if I have to blast all the synths out there I don’t wanna lose pieces or, worse yet, die

[–] weremacaque@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

A hearing implant that works by audio mixing rather than just raising volume. I'm not deaf, but I have trouble filtering out background noise.

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[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] dipcart@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Are we talking volume or velocity

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] dipcart@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Is your tolerance upgraded as well or is this a mutually assured destruction situation

[–] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Give me mechanical tentacles like doc ock. I wouldn't want to replace anything.

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[–] SomethingBlack@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (7 children)

A brain/computer interface. But like you say, depending on the state of tech companies maybe only as an input (I can manipulate computers without allowing them to send a signal of any kind to me).

It'd just be for stuff like mentally dictating note taking, being able to "Google" my thoughts (probably best to send the output to my phone rather than directly into my brain)

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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Exoskeletons are almost viable already. Climbing a major hike without breaking a sweat is a real dream for outdoors people

Though number one for me would be personal temperature control. Imagine having the perfect ac everywhere you go. Somehow scifi ignores this idea but that would change everything.

Also cybernetic eyes obviously.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Temp control would be at the top of my list. I don't handle heat well. I think I'm evolutionary primed to chase other mammals across vast frozen tundra. Summers are tough and getting tougher.

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