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Tumor Warlord – Valley of Sickness/Cyborg Conspiracy (Live in Copenhagen, May 16th, 2014) – Video

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Tumor Warlord perform "Valley of Sickness and "Cyborg Conspiracy" @ Jens Franco #39;s 50th birthday. Recorded live at Dmonens Port in Copenhagen, Denmark on May 16th, 2014.

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The perks of being an 'eyeborg'

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"I am a cyborg so I should be able to figure this out," says filmmaker and self-styled "eyeborg" Rob Spence, fiddling with the projector at the PINC 15 conference in the Netherlands.

There are generally two reactions people have when Spence tells them he has an eye camera, he says. Either they think it's cool, or they think it's creepy. "I think this is because the eyes are supposed to be the window to the soul, not to YouTube."

When you have your eye out, he says, they put in a ball of sea coral in the socket because blood vessels and muscles grow into the sea coral before they insert a peg. "I decided to wear an eyepatch -- mostly because women like it better. Why not be totally different rather than trying to be the same?"

"Unfortunately my eye is in the garage right now," Spence tells the audience. A common misconception is that people think it is in some way connected to his brain he says, whereas it's actually a standalone unit, that can be taken in and about and cleaned "a little bit like earrings".

When Spence lost his eye by holding a shotgun up to a face "like they do in the movies", he was already a filmmaker. At the time he was working on a comedy called Let's All Hate Toronto, but when he got his camera eye, he decided he would use it to go out and film other bionic people. "I know a bunch of cyborgs -- we call each other."

"Unlike you humans, I can upgrade my eye," he quips. "It's a place to play when you have a part of your body missing." He talks about the link between pop culture and his eye -- when he put a module in it that had a 40 cent LED light in it, the press went wild for it, because it made him look like a science fiction cyborg. "If you have a pacemaker are you a cyborg? If you have contact lenses are you a cyborg? Not really. If you have a forty-cent LED light? Yes you're a cyborg."

Spence has also looked at creating a mobile eye transmitter, although while the human body can in some ways be a pretty good antenna, this is not always the case, he says, pointing to an RF transmitter. "If I were to stick this inside a ham, those are the sort of issues I have."

When Spence first got his eye, there was something of a Star Trek element to it, meaning it retained more of a cool factor. But more recently people have increasingly been questioning it and focussing on the creepy factor. "We have Google Glass now so this is more on people's minds these days," he says. He tells the audience that initially the anti-Glass people tried to recruit him to be part of their campaign, but that he felt it would have been a "little hypocritical" of him to join in.

What Spence is interested in now though is the question of whether people are still terrified of Big Brother, as he was when he read George Orwell growing up, or whether they're now more afraid of Little Brother. "Even in police states, are you more afraid of the big camera, or the person with the little camera?"

People are increasingly going to have video and it will eventually become part of our bodies, believes Spence. "It's going to become all video, all the time." As such, for his next project, he's going to take on one man who knows all about the dangers of the small camera -- Mayor of Toronto Rob Ford, who was famously caught in camera smoking crack. Spence plans to stand for mayor himself while reprising his role as Mr Toronto in the film Let's All Hate Toronto 2.

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Rising Waters Are Spawning a New Breed of Cyborg Architecture

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Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House, a masterpiece on the banks of the Fox River, has been hit by three different "100-year-floods" in the last 20 years. Now, preservationists are considering putting the home on permanent hydraulic jacks to lift it above floodwaters. The Farnsworth House would become a cyborg buildingand it's far from the only one.

Writing in the Chicago Tribune, architecture critic Blair Kamin describes how the home's owner, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is considering several ways to save the Farnsworth House. Mies, when he designed the home in the late 1940s, foresaw the flooding issuethat's why he lifted the building up on steel columns that make it seem to "float" over the landscape. But that landscape is changing: The floods are coming more and more often, and the fragile building can't withstand many more.

The simplest option: The building could be moved to higher ground. The problem there? Many historians argue it would defeat the careful siting of the structure around the wooded glen it sits inside. What about building up its foundation so it's a bit higher above the floods? The same issue appliesand it's very expensive, at $2.9 million. The third idea, and by far the most remarkable, would only cost a smidgen more:

The trust is considering a daring plan that would temporarily move the house from its site, build a pit beneath it and insert hydraulic jacks that would lift the house out of harm's way the next time the Fox attacks it. Or so goes the plan, which seems like something out of a science fiction movie.

Whether or not this plan would be carried out is still up in the airthe public will debate the idea at a meeting on May 29. But imagine the scene: As meteorologists crow impending storms, a steward at the home would flip a switch and the home would creak to life, rising slowly but surely above the grassy lawn where it's spent the last 65 years. When the water receded, it would be lowered gently back to earth.

In fact, 800 miles east of Farnsworth, hydraulic jacks are becoming a bonafide trend for homeowners who are also threatened by rising tides; in this case, communities on the Jersey Shore who, rather than rebuilding in less dangerous coastal areas, are jacking up their homes on hydraulics so they meet FEMA's standards for flood-prone areas.

Ram Jack Foundation Solutions, a North Carolina company that specializes in hydraulic house liftsnormally for damaged foundationsis actually inventing a specialized solution for flood-prone homeowners. It's called the Sandy Bracket: A unique bracket that attaches a home's existing wooden foundation piles to a series of helical steel pilings driven deep into the ground. That way, they can lift aging homes up above the coast without damaging the aging structures.

Here's how Helical Pile World describe the lifting of one home:

Ram Jack was able to simultaneously lift the Heinle's house from 7 feet 7 inches above sea level to 12 feet 2 inches above sea level by installing helical piles to an average depth of 20 feet parallel to the 33 existing timber piles. By using the innovative "Sandy Bracket" pile attachment, Ram Jack was able to slowly lift the house by nudging the timber piles upward a few inches at a time.

The Sandy Bracket, it turns out, wasn't just invented after its titular storm. It was invented more six years ago to help Gulf Coast homeowners rebuild after Hurricane Ike.

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Tedwyn Plays Worms Revolution #1 1v1 Me IRL With Noobish Moo and Cyborg Birdie – Video

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Tedwyn Plays Worms Revolution #1 1v1 Me IRL With Noobish Moo and Cyborg Birdie
Today Tedwyn and his compatriots which include the likes of Noobish Moo and Cyborg Birdie battle against each other in Worms Revolution to see who is the greater tactician using weaponised...

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Injustice Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition – Classic Cyborg Superman vs Superman-Prime – Video

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Injustice Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition - Classic Cyborg Superman vs Superman-Prime
Characters are propertly of NetherRealm Studios and Warner Bros!!! Two unofficial DLC #39;s for game Injustice Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition. (Classic Cyborg Superman will be released and...

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