Bionic body bits - what would you choose?

In My Humble Opinion
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If you could have any gadget added onto your body, what would it be? I think I’d have a slot for a CD down my right hand side. The controls would probably be telepathic and the sound would go straight into my brain, so I could listen to CDs at work.

Another telepathic gadget that would be handy would be some sort of micro chip that communicates with a corresponding chip in the brains of hairdressers, allowing them to know exactly what you want done with your hair without you having to explain it (I can never describe what I want done with my hair so I always end up looking like a monkey).

What bionic body bits would you get?

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Well, first I think I’d have to choose some mediatronic tattoos - small embedded LEDs that allow you to change the image at will. Next I think I’d like to have some sort of implant in my brain that would allow me to project a perfect replica of any image in my mind. That way instead of trying to describe something to someone I could just project a hologram, or a drawing onto a surface of exactly what I’m picturing in my head.

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Brain.

It’d have memory files of all kinds of useful information, and contol of my motor skills (“Whoa - I know Kung Fu!”).

I’d want it to also program my personality, with banks of useful reactions to all possible situations, including the ever-popular “Fock off, Ah-sole,” from Terminator1.

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I’d like a bionic digestive system, so I could eat anything and as much as I want, without worrying about gaining weight or getting the shits.

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Super-voyeuristic-bionic-X-Ray-eyes, for umm… birdwatching.

And maybe some super-ears so I can listen to anyone talking about me behind my back. :wink:

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I think i’d have to go one step further and go for nano-tats. A swarm of nano-bots would be implanted into the epidermis, and would coalesce into any shape, colour or configuration I desired. I could have a heart one my bicep one moment, then a phoenix across my chest the next. Heck, I could even have them move like a video, so if I wanted I could have the phoenix flap its wings or have a serpent coil its way up my arm…

I guess I’d also go for a wolverine-style adamantium skeleton and razor-sharp claws. Then we’ll see about that promotion at work!

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WOW. Good topic! Then again, I’m a hardcore gamer… I’ve been asking this question for years. q;}

If it had to be just ONE item, I’d go for Jetgirl’s hologram projector. Whatever I thought up, I could project as an image, exactly how it looked in my head. This would be infinitely useful, both in mysticalsuperheroland and the real world. Being attacked by brain-eating zombie alien robots? Project the image of brain clouds, and scare them away! Or show the projected earnings forcast graph for next quarter, during the stockholders meeting. Either way is good.

If it had to be just one TYPE of item… Nanobots. DEFINITELY nanobots. Just one at first but he’ll make more. And I gotta be able to talk to 'em telepathically or whatever… let 'em know what I want 'em to do. Then they run around in my body healing any damage, improving everything, heck, build me a set of wings and the muscles to use them, if I want. They’re NANOBOTS, and nanobots RULE. Until I try to use the microwave, and end up covering the planet in grey ooze. Er… hmm. Maybe not nanobots…

DNI jack. Direct Neural Interface. YEAH baby! Screw typing, screw fiddling with miceballs or trackballs or whatever the hell else is out there… plug that sucker DIRECTLY INTO MY BRAIN! I’m going into cyberspace for real! Weeeeeeeeeeeee!!! Of course, I’d spend most of my time right here at the SDMB, pumping it directly into my brain. That can’t be good. q:/

And of course I’d need data storage. Several hundred gig of hard drive space, so I can store music and hologram files and websites and such. Right there in the good ol’ noggin.

Or just a little selector knob, for the songs already stuck in my head? Hey, yeah, that would be cool. Ya know, all those songs ya can’t get rid of, that plague you? Instead of simply shutting it off, a wonderful ability in the first place, have a dial you scan thru until you find the terribly annoying song you can’t get out of your head, that you actually WANT to listen to! Yeah!

What’s that? I still got Newyen to spend? Hmm… ok, sign me up for the full Bionic Man package. Super strong robot skeleton, incredible strength and reflexes and sight and hearing and and and… be sure not to skimp on the Hydraulic Jackhammer package. Yes, that’s right, you know the one. Ladies, my number is…

Ooh, look, here’s the new catalog! “Experimental and Dangerous” eh? Well, that’s ok, I like adventure…

The Mr. Fusion Stomach, so I don’t need to watch my diet anymore, or bother plugging in at night.
Laser Deathray Eyes. Yeah baby, yeah!
TransformerMatic? That sounds cool… I wanna turn into a jeep! Painful, you say? Hmm… but I could be a JEEP! Or a JET PLANE! Yeah… make me transform into a jet plane! Weeee!

Ok, I’m officially out of ideas. q;} Good thread!

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Genetically Engineered Symbiote Micro-Organisms!

Heals injuries super-fast, arrests the aging process.

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I would like my left arm ambutated and replaced with a multi-tasking, brassy, steam-punk looking gadget arm with visible gears, tubes, pistons, and parts. It should have very good strength (not superhuman, but unusually strong), and perhaps allow my actual hand to remain intact so I could still type and play musical instruments, etc. It should also have some sort of small embedded computer hidden under a panel, for memory, downloading things, etc.

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I will become the Amazing Pe-nor!

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Well, I’d go with the nanobots idea…repair your body, resist disease.

Maybe some bionic eyes also. See in the dark, etc etc.

And oh…4 words:

GO GO GADGET PENIS!!!

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If you go with the nanobots you may as well have your whole body be composed of them.

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Wow, Phnord Prephect, you’ve cleary given this a lot of thought… maybe too much thought :wink:

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Just remember–what you choose you also lose.

Amputations ain’t fun.

That’s why I went for bioware/symbiotes.
PS–check out my sig.

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Can I vote for the wireless T3 internet hookup skull implant?