A Canadian inventor has developed a "ballistic, full exoskeleton body suit of armour" capable of withstanding bullets from high-powered weapons that he hopes to sell to the military for use in current operations.

High-tech tools, implanted or attached to the human body, are bringing biology and technology together to repair, replace and augment human ability.

Kevin Warwick, the media friendly cybernetics professor at the University of Reading, claims that in a decade, people will have wireless networks in their heads that will enable direct mind-to-mind and mind-to-machine communications.

To promote their Matrix franchise, Warner Brothers has commissioned several prominent researchers and philosophers to discuss the philosophy of the Matrix movies. In this essay Kevin Warwick, argues that like in the movie, humanity will soon be at war with intelligent machines. He argues that we should convert ourselves into cyborgs argues that transforming ourselves into Cyborgs to control these machines and fully benefit from all that such a future offers.

The Army is hunting for a new military uniform that can make soldiers nearly invisible, grant superhuman strength and provide instant medical care.

Erick Schonfeld argues that despite the concerns of privacy advocates, the technology of implanting medical chips into the human body "is already more helpful -- and more common -- than you might imagine."

An excellent coverage of some of the ethical and social implications of research into brain-machine interfaces. The author takes a look at its potential for mind-control or intelligence augmentation, i.e. making humans into cyborgs.

A fascinating article on the possibility of advanced genetic engineering and cyborg technologies being able to endow humans with comic book superhero powers.

The soldier of the future could be able to leap buildings, heal his own wounds, deflect bullets and become invisible. These are just some of the futuristic plans of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which has been selected by the US army to create the battlefield equivalent of Robocop.

Backed by a US Army grant of $50 million over five years, MIT has launched a new Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies. The institute is tasked with innovating materials and designs that will reinvent soldiers' uniforms, turning them into high tech gear that rivals the best science fiction.