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- ArchetypeRyan, on 11/13/2009, -0/+7Too bad half of this list is robots / androids, not cyrborgs. Cyborgs are supposed to be people with mechanical enhancements, not robots made to look like people. Including terminators and the androids from Blade Runner is really stretching.
Still, an interesting article. - RealmDown, on 11/13/2009, -0/+4Steve Austin.
And who hasn't thought of what Jamie Summers could do with that bionic hand ? ;-) - sillyelf74, on 11/13/2009, -0/+3Apparently cyborgs were pretty lame up until the 80's and 90's
- keloyd, on 11/13/2009, -0/+2Their first set of photos is labeled "1960's and before" and the article's title says "through the ages" which includes 1927. It includes Metallo from 1959, Superman villain with a Kryptonite-powered heart and a metal body as well as a reference to the Tin Man from Wizard of Oz, a book even older than Metropolis. You need to stop blogging and go watch Metropolis, NOW! People who drove Model T's to see this in theaters - and likely smoked as much weed as we do today - would have their minds blown.
- keloyd, on 11/13/2009, -0/+2These people are Philistines!
No anthology on cyborgs, and by that I mean dangerous female temptress cyborgs, is complete without a mention of Metropolis. This 1927 movie was groundbreaking and not a little trippy. It was restored about 5 years ago, which was an act of love and very clever data mining in itself. It is difficult to imagine that Ford Model T's were being made while this movie was in theaters. It is more modern and abstract than you can imagine. Those of you who complain that movies are all the same, that Hollywood makes about 5 movies over and over, watch this. It is unlike anything you have ever conceived.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_%28film%29 - inactive, on 11/13/2009, -0/+2Ed-209 still scares the taint off of me.
- stk198323, on 11/13/2009, -0/+2@keloyd
My bad, didn't read the '' and before'' sorry for my comment! - fquednau, on 11/13/2009, -0/+2haha, never, but now that you mention it :D
- Mujokan, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1Yes, as the article mentions it's short for "cybernetic organism". Cybernetics comes from the 1940s and it's supposed to refer to control systems -- the word comes from the Greek for "helmsman". I didn't go through the list exhaustively, but I think most of these have some organic component.
- SirLowKey, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1Dugg for Lobot, Tetsuo and Kryten,
but Galaxina would also have been nice...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080771/ - shumphrey, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1What!? No Beetleborgs? Though I guess they aren't really cyborgs.
- benroy, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1Until now I never realized that Inspector Gadget was a cyborg.
- stk198323, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1Yes yes cause 1927 is part of the 60's!
- forgeflow, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1Technically, Astro Boy is a robot. None of him is biological.
- forgeflow, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1uh, so the only Terminator picture is from a comic book cover, but several shots of the Borg from "First Contact". WTF.
- shibagarden, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1Yeah, Inspector Gadget really raised the bar of cyborg coolness.
- gerryk, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1You have 5 seconds to comply...
- imants, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1An where, pray tell, is Doc Terror of Centurions fame on this list?
http://images.google.com/images?q=doc+terror - l1tay2, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1uhhh okay...the post 2000 era cyborgs are just way more kick ass...
- Brooks007, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1Some of the images are of androids but most of them are cyborgs. A cyborg is a synthesis of organic and synthetic parts. They dont have to start out as human to be a cyborg.You could have a cyborg dog for example but androids must look human by definition.
- gerryk, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1So the helicopter was just a fancy hairstyle?
- Manguskahn, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1Same for Megaman. All robot. And Pinocchio is more like a golem than a robot.
- InsaneCyborg, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1Dugg for cyborg-cat
- keloyd, on 11/13/2009, -0/+1What kind of room full of scientist nerds would make a cyborg out of a dude? If you have the technology and have been freed of any ethical constraints, why is it not all killer temptress female sex orgy robot women - a legion of cheerleaders, a killer death squad of Lucy Liu's, another team of Jessica Alba's who specialize in killing very happy men in their sleep choking them to death with their thighs, and some Japanese schoolgirl robot girls because let's face it, these will be made in Japan.
- Manguskahn, on 11/13/2009, -1/+1A simple way to tell the difference between cyborgs and androids:
Cyborgs: Robot on the outside, organic on the inside
ex: RoboCop, Makoto Kusanagi, The Borg
Androids: Organic/Humanoid on the outside, robot on the inside
ex: T-800, Data, Tima - Spacejack, on 11/13/2009, -0/+0Hurt you very badly with it? Even just by letting her mind wander for a minute?
- Spacejack, on 11/13/2009, -0/+0Lame? Colonel Steve Austin could walk into your house and you'd never even know. Try doing that with some kluged-out piece of gunmetal that thunks when it walks. Sure it looks more spectacular when it blows up on camera, but what's the better man/machine blend?
Props to article for choosing the Vallejo cover to the Caidin book, but lame to choose that Christmas record for the TV $6m image. Not trying to spin it ridiculous with THAT or anything. I mean it was a cheesy old series and everything but there's no need to show it taking a crap. - Spacejack, on 11/13/2009, -0/+0The Terminator is described specifically as a cyborg in the movie, even if it might be stretching a bit. It does challenge the conventional idea that the human brain must be "driving" the cyborg, but there's no hard and fast rule about that in the word as regards SF. (Making hard rules like that about science fiction usually makes you look like an ass pretty quick, since it's a genre about presenting challenging new ideas.) I suppose the word "cybernetic" might imply a one-way connection if you took it from its strict origins, but that's not exactly the way people do it either.
What about Doctor Octopus? Cyborg? - hakkola, on 11/13/2009, -1/+1Darth Vader first appeared in the 70's.
- cdnbmatt, on 11/13/2009, -2/+1WTF OMG LOL GTG!!!
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Digg submissions have gone way downhill. :)
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