When does someone become a cyborg?

[Linus Hyper]

And what exactly defines the term?
I, for example, have a hearing aid. Does that make me a cyborg?
Or people with pace makers, hip replacements etc etc

[Xero_Daxter]

I would love Machanical Limbs. When I punch someone it will be like you've been hit by a truck.

[Linus Hyper]

Originally posted by Xero_Daxter:

I would love Machanical Limbs. When I punch someone it will be like you've been hit by a truck.

Look how it made Adam Jensen. Turned into an emoborg.

[Volfogg]

Originally posted by Phobos⛧Anomaly:

Originally posted by Xero_Daxter:

I would love Machanical Limbs. When I punch someone it will be like you've been hit by a truck.

Look how it made Adam Jensen. Turned into an emoborg.

Shiba Hiroshi and Guy Shishioh on the other hand...

[Aznees]

Originally posted by Toast:

Originally posted by I have the Gay Again:

If you use some machinery to enhance your body then you're a cyborg, no exceptions.

I wear a wrist watch, therefore I am a cyborg. I can instantly know the time by looking at my arm.

Yes you are, now you're part of the Kool Kidz Klub™

[Linus Hyper]

Of the 80's and early 90's
I swear, every kid on the block had one of those plastic, black watches with a tiny screen and lots of buttons next to it.

[Linus Hyper]

Originally posted by Toast:

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

Yup, that's the one.

[Rio]

When your 50% machine, including parts of the brain

[Linus Hyper]

So then what is Robocob?

[Linus Hyper]

Halt, or there will be calculations.

[The Director]

Originally posted by Phobos⛧Anomaly:

And what exactly defines the term?
I, for example, have a hearing aid. Does that make me a cyborg?
Or people with pace makers, hip replacements etc etc

Let's look at the Dictionary's definition first. "a person whose physiological functioning is aided by or dependent upon a mechanical or electronic device.

" Physiological = "consistent with the normal functioning of an organism"

So, given this definition, anyone with a hearing-aid, Artificial cardiac pacemaker, insulin pump, artificial limb, is technically a Cyborg.

[Linus Hyper]

So a hearing aid makes me semi-cyborg because I really don't need to hear in order to live?

[The Director]

Originally posted by Phobos⛧Anomaly:

So a hearing aid makes me semi-cyborg because I really don't need to hear in order to live?

If it's aiding your Physioligy YES.

[Crystal Sharrd]

So, in real life, would x-ray vision let you see somebody in their underwear or naked, or would it just show their bones? I'm leaning toward the latter.

[The Director]

Originally posted by sonic65101:

So, in real life, would x-ray vision let you see somebody in their underwear or naked, or would it just show their bones? I'm leaning toward the latter.

If it was X-ray Vision based on an electromagnetic wave of high energy and very short wavelength, which is able to pass through many materials opaque to light, than NO. You would only see BONE as X-rays can't pass through bone, which is why you see them on X-rays.

However, you could get a video camera with Nighvision and then impliment a special IR Filter lens filter which you could then see underwear through clothes.

[Linus Hyper]

X-ray would only allow you to see the bones. However, if you had thermal vision, you would see through clothing and fabrics. But the bodies would be a solid silhouette of orange.