MAKE Volume 29: DIY Superhuman

We have the technology (to quote The Six Million Dollar Man), but commercial tools for exploring, assisting, and augmenting our bodies really can approach a price tag of $6 million. Medical and assistive tech manufacturers must pay not just for R&D, but for expensive clinical trials, regulatory compliance, and liability -- and doesn't help with low pricing that these devices are typically paid for through insurance, rather than purchased directly. But many gadgets that restore people's abilities or enable new "superpowers" are surprisingly easy to make, and for tiny fractions of the costs of off-the-shelf equivalents. MAKE 29, the "DIY Superhuman" issue, explains how.

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[WakeUpWolfgang]

When will we get ours in the mail?

[makemagazine]

@WakeUpWolfgang Shipping starts now, so in the next few weeks depending where you live!

[CampKohler]

OMG! Her headband has stopped! Quick, someone get me a new 9 volt battery. Oh, no... it's been too long. She's gone.

[al7zzin2012]

when kipkay will come back !!??

[WaheedJason]

@al7zzin2012 yup im just playing with your mind

[al7zzin2012]

@WaheedJason r u joking man ???

[WaheedJason]

@al7zzin2012 he is dead

[Mitzrael19]

Carol in the cover? i'm sold, give me 20 <3

[anakinluke100]

Guys you can buy make magazine at barnes and noble

[anakinluke100]

Irishuser2k11 check kipkays newest video it's called brisk saber and real life light saber

[anakinluke100]

ISTAND

[anakinluke100]

Stupid autocorrect Istanbul

[anakinluke100]

I built the island

[irishuser2k11]

i was thinking for a project.you could make a real life lightsaber!!!you could have a very powerful laser in the handle,this laser shines upwards towards a mirror held at the length you want by a small wire attached to the handle thats outside of the beam,then you could have a mirror on the top of the handle with a small hole in it for the laser beam to project outwards!!!!!!