Wow, that Wired link is amazing. I barely believe some parts--balance sense staying after the prosthetics come off, and visual data to the tongue being subjectively perceived as images. I'd love a chance to try one of those devices out.
I remembered a previous conversation about the compass belt described in the article; it contains several links for building or ordering one.
I periodically get email from folks who, having read "Accelerando", assume I am some kind of fire-breathing extropian zealot who believes in the imminence of the singularity, the uploading of the libertarians, and the rapture of the nerds. I find this mildly distressing, and so I think it's time to set the record straight and say what I really think.
Short version: Santa Claus doesn't exist.
- Charles Stross, Three arguments against the singularity, 2011-06-22
EDITED TO ADD: don't get your hopes up, this is pretty weak stuff.