Whereas everyone else in France (and in Europe I guess) is planning Xmas, I am taking profit of this wild episode of our consumerist societies to get some rest. And.. as resting, staying still, is something I still can't do at my age, I am starting instead investigating websites about my new hobby : cybernetics.

Cybernetics is really amazing. I can't define it precisely, because it is still too weird for me, but it could be described as a science that will enable human beings to become robots.. How ? by replacing parts of the human body by electronic devices.

In a way, it may seems stupid, why would we want to become robots ? Robots are creepy, dull and boring. But, if you think a lot deeper, you can imagine that it will lead us to greater skills, greater perspectives, a longer life and so on. A step towards immortality, the old dream of mankind.

The thing is.. cyborgs are already here. We just don't know them for what they are. Many people have technological pieces designed to replace limbs or organs. Think one second about pacemakers, about artificial hips, about people who have implanted micro-chips under their skin. They are cyborgs stricto sensu.

But cyborgs are getting more and more sophisticated nowadays. It's not yet like in this old US series The Six Milion dollars Man but we are slowly heading to transform ourselves in a few years from now into serious opponents to Bigfoots :

More seriously... we are really getting to it. I found a blogger named Tanya Vlach who is intending to install a webcam in her eye socket, instead of her lost eyeball.

She wants to be able to record parts of her life, from her point of view, by filming what her cyborg eye will see. And she is calling engineers for help.

You can read more on the Daily News.

Experts say it's possible.

And she is not the only one to have such a dream. Another blogger is also planning to have his lost eye replaced by a wireless camera. Rob Spence is a Canadian filmmaker who wants to have a micro cam installed inside his prosthetic. He wish he can use the camera the same way any filmmaker would use a camera enabled cell phone : a new tool for exploring new ways in his art.

So these two people, Tanya and Rob, would soon be, if they succeed, real cyborgs. They will have electronic devices inside their body that will communicate with the rest of the world. They will be able to send images or movies to their websites, and why not, one day record each other ?

Amazing, isn't it ?

I still hardly believe it could be true one day.