Chapter 12 – BioHacking – An Example

References for Biohacking

List of references

Wikipedia’s strength and weakness is that it is open source.   It can be a useful route to finding original sources of information but you need to treat with great caution.  The instructor for this course, and many others, will not accept Wikipedia as the original source for any research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg

1. The Cyborg Foundation

https://www.cyborgfoundation.com/

” The Cyborg Foundation is an online platform for the research, development and promotion of project RELATED TO THE CREATION OF NEW SENSES AND PERCEPTIONS BY APPLYING TECHNOLOGY TO THE HUMAN BODY.  OUR MISSION IS TO HELP PEOPLE BECOME CYBORGS, PROMOTE CYBORG ART AND DEFEND CYBORG RIGHTS”

2. New York Times article on “A Do-it-yourself revolution in Diabetes Care”Retrieved June 12 2019.   https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/health/a-do-it-yourself-revolution-in-diabetes-care.html

 

3. Retrieved June 12 2019 https://hackernoon.com/biohack-your-intelligence-now-or-become-obsolete-97cdd15e395f

4. https://hackernoon.com/im-32-and-spent-200k-on-biohacking-became-calmer-thinner-extroverted-healthier-happier-2a2e846ae113

5. Retrieved June 12 2019 June 5 2018  by Faye Flam “it is not illegal to experiment on yourself FDA”

6. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-06-05/biohackers-experimenting-on-themselves-new-drugs-old-technique

Early this year, a 28-year-old self-described biohacker named Aaron Traywick injected himself with an alleged herpes vaccine prepared by fellow amateur medical researchers. The injection, which was broadcast on Facebook Live, brought on a volley of criticism and ethical concerns. Only a few months earlier, a colleague at the company Traywick founded, Ascendance Biomedical, injected himself with an alleged gene therapy for HIV. It’s unlikely either of these treatments worked, but they succeeded in proving how easy it’s become for amateurs to experiment with infectious agents and other biological materials that were once restricted to trained professionals. While it’s illegal to sell biohacked therapies or vaccines, or to test them on human subjects, so far at least, the FDA does not explicitly forbid experimenting on yourself.
7. Brain interfaces for paralyzed patients since 2006
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/13/science/13brain.html
8. New England Journal of Medicine  

Fully Implanted Brain–Computer Interface in a Locked-In Patient with ALS

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1608085 July 7 2013   Retrieved on June 14 2019

 

9. https://io9.gizmodo.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-getting-magnetic-finger-imp-813537993

 

10. Hacklab Toronto   Retrieved June 13 2019 https://hacklab.to/

11. Eric Boyd  Cyborg – Canadian  https://ca.linkedin.com/in/eric-boyd-2b5ab83

12. http://makerfestival.ca/team/eric-boyd/

Eric Boyd is the founder of Sensebridge, an electronic jewelry company. Born and raised in Ontario Canada, on a small chicken farm, Eric went to Queens University for engineering, graduating in 2003, but not before co-founding StumbleUpon.com. After graduating, he lived and worked in Silicon Valley at a high tech startup, designing and installing industrial sensors. Eric is currently based in Toronto Canada, where he is President of Hacklab.to, a technology community space and a trustee of the Awesome Foundation. At Sensebridge, Eric works on a variety of devices which are intended to augment the user, turning them into a cyborg. These devices include North Paw, a compass anklet that gives users a sense of direction, and Heart Spark, a heart-beat flashing pendant which broadcasts the wearers emotions. A man of diverse interests, his other hobbies include Quantified Self, DIYbio and Guerrilla Gardening.

13. Neil Harbisson had an antenna implanted into his skull so he could see colours.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/tech/2014/09/02/spc-make-create-innovate-neil-harbisson-cyborg.cnn

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