How about bionic ear appendages to combat hearing loss?
Evolution: 🖕
Submitted 2 months ago by Uri@infosec.pub to science_memes@mander.xyz
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Kevlar21@piefed.social 2 months ago
Hearing aids?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
No, cat ears.
apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Is that like a sexually transmitted ear infection?
perishthethought@piefed.social 2 months ago
KeenFlame@feddit.nu 2 months ago
I have good news and bad news
perishthethought@piefed.social 2 months ago
Ok. I just want the good news.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
Both sysadmins and hentai enthusiasts rejoice!
Bread@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Did you really need to specify the same thing twice?
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
Lol, actually, I was even thinking of specifically additionally naming elderly sysadmins and elderly hentai enthusiasts …
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Imagine working in a retirement home and one day one if the residents tells yoz “I am taking part in this clinical trial” only to come back as Doctor fucking Octopus.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Fuck. Yes. Id make so many comments about killing spider man.
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I just want a third arm, is that too much to ask? Imagine how many tasks would be easier with that.
vic_rattlehead@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Say a prayer to the Four-Armed Emperor.
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Now if it can stab people and drain them of their bioenergy, I can reach my final form!
kieron115@startrek.website 2 months ago
I’m supposed to be cleaning but now I’m laughing too hard imagining some “saturday morning cartoon” tokusatsu show about a squad of mecha-grandmas.
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Tonight on Lifetime-Japan, Speed Walkers - A motley crew of septuagenarians must defeat the evil doer, osteoarthritis man, else they will be forced to deal with painful joints! Can these grizzled grandmas come out victorious? Tune in to find out!
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
tokusatsu
What does this word mean?
Hupf@feddit.org 2 months ago
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Furry costumes just got more lifelike.
cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Is that photo AI? All the videos of the real prototype look substantially different.
Sergio@lemmy.world 2 months ago
At best it’s concept art, tho that thin strap probably wouldn’t serve the purpose they’re looking for. At worst it’s generated by clickbait article writers.
How could they pass up an “electrified facehugger penis sheath” image like this?
www.cnn.com/style/article/…/index.html
fr tho it’s pretty cool research
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m just imagining the scene in a sci fi comedy.
“I thought you said we were getting mechanical tails? Why the Hell is this attached to my front?”
“Experiments determined that this was actually the more effective and cheaper option. Don’t worry, a front tail works just fine for balance!”
socsa@piefed.social 2 months ago
That one looks attached at the front ...
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
You’re right, it seems. That video is old (6 years), but I couldn’t find any photos or videos that look substantially different from it.
“Arque tail” is the keywords to search for, if anyone wants to do their own research.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Do people just use “AI” now instead of “Photoshopped”
cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have a feeling a completely different audience has a definite interest. They would just cover it in the same fur as the rest of their costume.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I was hoping for research into genetically adding one to a human, but I’ll.take this.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You already have the nerves there, and it’s quite trivial to connect them to a neurotransmitter, especially since the patent expired.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 months ago
The next thing I need is an articulated mouth and the ability to spit fire. And spikes on my back!
For balance as well, obviously.
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, that’ll help elderly people with mobility issues — hucking another 5 kg of metal, motors and batteries around.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
The way it’s depicted, the weight will be felt around the center point of the body. That’s where it exerts the least force. Also I contest the notion that a difference of 5kg is that significant, even in elderly people.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
One of the typical bits of advice for elderly folks walking around is a five pound limit on carried items, so five kilos is probably going to affect things more. Poor mobility is a downward line though, not a sudden switch that is flipped, so there is a range of walking difficulties and I’m sure some of that range will be helped by a device like this.
icelimit@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Where the weight acts is significant imo, and the hips near the spine is probably most stable.
Zyratoxx@fedia.io 2 months ago
Can I... uhhm... get one too? Maybe a little more fluffy? Ohh, and it would be nice if it could wag too... U know... Just for... uhhm... balancing purposes...
(‘~‘; )
👉👈
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Theres a few companies that make moving tails (and wings) for a few hundred USD, but they tend to be waitless rather than designed for balancing
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yup. That’s the most cost-effctive solution to the elderly falling problem. Trust me there is no other reason we are doing this.
kofe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My dreams of kick boxing like a kangaroo may finally come truee
MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Money for elderly that can prevent them from needing very expensive nursing home care is a huge market with no limit if the product works well. Especially for Japan but really everywhere will have increasingly large cohorts of their elderly people with not enough young people to care for them.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In all seriousness, human elderlies are actually evolutionary anomaly, because if Darwinian tenet of “survival of the fittest” applies 100% of the time, they would not be the norm. But the fact that old people are prevalent in human society is the proof that we are compassionate and loving creatures that transcend cold evolutionary programming. We care for others and the vulnerable.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Almost all of it comes down to how long it takes to raise children. It takes a lot more people and effort and time to raise humans vs any other species, and its made us unique in that we have essentially support roles. Elderly people, people who can’t or dont want to have kids of their own, even older children, all have a role to play in making sure we make it to adulthood and continue the species.
Patches@ttrpg.network 2 months ago
Does anyone currently have any elders taking care of their kids? Or having done so?
The current generation of Elders living today aren’t doing shit for support.
I would argue given how much voting power they have - they are actively making it worse for parents.
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
The “grandmother theory” is supporting this idea.
The idea is that past a certain age there is an evolutionary benefit to not be able to have kids anymore. Past a certain age, to pass our genes it’s more beneficial to be able to help descendants with their kids rather than having kids on our own.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Sure, in the context of physical abilities.
However, i think bands of hominids who care for each other have a survival advantage. I guess thats who we’ve evolved to be social creatures.
Also, nanna might not be able to hunt mammoths anymore, but she knows what to do in years when the mammoth dont come.
ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
darwinian selection has nothing to do with aging. that’s religious right / 1920s robber baron bullshit.
nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Actually having elders in human societies is shown to positively correlate with better outcomes for the youth in that society. Grandmothers in particular have a measurable benefit.
kieron115@startrek.website 2 months ago
Except that it isn’t a religious thing. Human’s are something of an evolutionary anomaly in the sense that the only other animals on earth who go through menopause are a few species of whales. There’s a whole evolutionary theory tied to it called [the grandmother hypothesis] (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_hypothesis). Or you can watch this PBS video about it if you don’t feel like reading. It’s pretty interesting really.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There are other species which have elderly members, namely whales and elephants.
It’s postulated that having grandmothers helps in a species where young take a long time to mature.
kieron115@startrek.website 2 months ago
The thing is, for it to be an evolutionary advantage it can’t be common. That’s one theory behind why grandmas aren’t more common in species.
kieron115@startrek.website 2 months ago
I posted this further down but you would enjoy it if you haven’t seen it already. The end of the video supports your statement. Why Your Grandmother Is an Evolutionary Mystery
KeenFlame@feddit.nu 2 months ago
And how many successful actually productive and generous persons alive wore glasses? Yep, you entered another mind trap.
sunbytes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Will it stop my girlfriend from poking at my butthole when I’m above her on the stairs?
axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
Cat girls or helping the elderly walk steadily?
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 months ago
I can think of another demographic that would like this…
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Finally something to balance the enormous mass I have in front.
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Looking at other papers from the same lab and this is the silliest paper I’ve ever seen, they’re evaluating the effect of shining rgb lights at glass noodles on the eating experience
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is just the first step towards making Dr Octopuss a reality. AND WE DON’T HAVE SPIDERMAN TO SAVE US!!!
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
honestly the best posture advice I have ever gotten is to sit like I have a tail (you would have to tilt your hips forward and stick your butt out behind you to put the tail up behind you rather than curling your tailbone under such that you’d be sitting on the tail).
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
YES
apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Make it fluffy and I’m in
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
OwO
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I would put it on the front
ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just what the japanes elderly need, a heavy battery powered contraption strapped to their waist to be more stable. I’ve also heard in Tokyo that everyone is always 5ft apart from one another, plenty of room to be whipping a pseudo tail around.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Darako@lemmy.world 2 months ago
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I’d get 5 so I can work without hands.
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Can we wear these if we don’t have balance issues? Asking for a friend.
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Don’t hide it Japan, you’re just doing this to make cat girls
lowleveldata@programming.dev 2 months ago
Why stop there? I want my dog and fox and wolf girls too
muhyb@programming.dev 2 months ago
How about horse girls?
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Won’t someone think of the poor working class furries? A fur suit can already cost 10 or 20 grand. Now they’re going to have to add cyborg body parts to the mix as well? Talk about gentrification!
Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Also these ears will help to uh, absorb the echoes and extra noise of the world around you. Yeah.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Wait, I … could make human-cat hears that actually have microphones in them and that turn towards the gaze and they could actually ear out of them if they’re wearing linked earphones … could even do some psychoacoustic filtering to give some kind of “superearing” ability … Then some cunt like Elon is going to just steal my idea… meh. … eff it
Sergio@piefed.social 2 months ago
Looks more like Mecha-Godzilla, tho.
naught101@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So, uh, you reckon you could fit eight of those on one person?
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I think we can do just four
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 2 months ago
They need to increase their birthrate somehow.
serenissi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
contrary to popular beliefs real cat girls do exist in Japan. there is more information on the internet redlib.orangenet.cc/r/realscatgirls . unfortunately it’s on reddit not on lemmy (yet).
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
hehe fuck you
serenissi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
who tf upvoted this
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Good shit
green_copper@kbin.earth 2 months ago
taps fingers together rhythmically
Good, gooood. It's all coming together.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
catgirl mecha, if we’re being precise.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Is it prehensile? This could lead to octopus-like abilities if you added more than one.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
This feels more like monkey nannas. An entirely more niche kink.