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Help me flesh out some ideas. The idea of human augmentation has always been fun to me, but I want to have it be somewhat realistic. I don’t usually write sci fi but I have an idea for a story that’s kinda blade runner, cyberpunk, and berserk mixed together
Brain: you can get a chip planted that lets you download information. Movies, thousands of books, all of Wikipedia as well as tools like a scientific calculator etc
Limbs: healthy people have limbs removed to be replaced with prosthetics. Some people get an arm that’s incredibly strong, legs that are incredibly fast or jump higher. Some people just straight up get a shotgun attached to their arm
Eyes: can have one replaced with a camera that pops in and out that records or detects things it’s programmed to (maybe a face for a detective) and beeps
Rest of the body: biological immortality has more or less been achieved. Any organ can be replaced with enough money, but anyone can be destroyed
Also porn and drugs are absolutely crazy lol. A lot of people are hedonistic zombies
Focus Enhancement Implant colloquially known as brain pacer or Lockout. It does something simple but incredibly vital: It makes you incapable of becoming bored. Monotonous crunch session? Lockout makes it as interesting as your favorite game. Need to vigilantly check hundreds of vehicles a day? The pacer makes you feel motivated regardless of how many times you've done the exact same song and dance. Gathering information in the slums? Guess what, when you Lockout your ability to get frustrated with a fruitless search you'll simply continue with zero loss of enthusiasm.
Nutriostat. This is not so much a single implant as a series of them. At its most basic it coordinates with your overall lifestyle and organ data and up/down regulates hunger, energy usage and nutrient absorption in order within a set nutrient parameter range. It's like a nutritionist built into your body. You won't want to eat the wrong stuff and if you do it won't absorb.
Oxitreen. This is a combination of slow release hormonal signalling and bone implants. It boosts the amount of oxygen you can absorb and use at any given time. Marathon runners at times train in high elevations because it gives them a boost to red blood cell count which enhances performance. This is an artificial version of that.
Navex. This is an epigenetic switch neural implant. It enhances/restores the ability to pick up smells and guestimates whether a given smell (such as industrial exhaust, BO or flatulence) might not be interesting enough to send to the brain.
Folistim. Your skin is a canvas. Your hair is the paint. A cream bearing an engineered retrovirus gets applied to the whole body. Then each pore gets mapped and transformed into a bitmap.
Using this reference you design the exact position and growth speed of every hair on the client's body be it fast or completely absent, then use a brush with ultrasound probes to selectively trigger the retroviral laced skin on a pore by pore basis.
Folistim patients always have hair that looks drawn on (because it is) be that perfectly thick and razor-sharp beards, perpetually hairless under arms or pubes that are soft and always have a porn level of customization.
Bunny tummy. The rather flippantly made modification simply eliminates periods in favor of turning on the latent genetic sequences that allow for seamless reabsorption of uterine lining at the end of the cycle.
I hope some of these were helpful!
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