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Cyborg Seeks Community

May 1999

Meet one of the creators of wearable computing and join him in his search for like-minded folks to live in an augmented reality.

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Seeing Is Believing
There’s a ways to go yet, but the artificial retina is poised to move out of academic labs and into corporate R&D.
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CPR for the Artificial Heart
Reviled in the ’80s and forgotten in the ’90s, the artificial heart is back and beating. TR readers get a rare glimpse inside the company that’s developing it.
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Dances with Machines
Artist David Rokeby builds machines that watch us, make music with us, speak to us and free-associate on our behalf.
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Japan’s Friendly Robots
In Japan, a cartoon inspired a generation of engineers to make machines that look-and act-human.
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Titans Talk Tech
Michael Dertouzos and Bill Gates ponder open-source software and the future of the computing industry.
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Fountain of Ideas
A reservoir for computing innovation, LCS has provided a haven for startups-and a place for researcher/entrepreneurs to regroup and begin again.

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