It’s the year 2016, and we still ask ourselves, ‘Where are all science fiction advancements we’ve seen in the movies we’ve watched growing up?’ Where are the hover board? Flying cars? Robot-servants? 

It’s like we’ve been deceived all along, but… hold that thought. 

Remember Cyborg from Teen Titans? The half-cybernetic half-man? We may be close to seeing more of them. 

What if I told you that Biohackers are modifying their bodies with things like chip implants, magnets, NFC tags and a lot more to enhance their bodies? 

Well, it’s happening.We've already got technology built into our watches, shirts and shoes. While having a phone implanted into your head, hand or arm may sound like science fiction, it's really just the next logical step. 

In a recent incent, a group of biohackers got a new device implanted in their hands that lights up when activated by a magnet. Sounds pretty crazy? Totally. 

These devices are considerably like cosmetic surgery and piercing, except you have a huge chip in your hand that emits lights, just Tony Stark stuff. 

Jokes aside, Biohacking could be a solution to many of our problems, for instance scientists in London are developing a swallow able capsule-sized circuits that monitor fat levels in obese patients, these capsules are directly connected to a smartphone app in order to monitor and treat diseases in real time. 

In America’s Boston University, A new bionic pancreas being tested, which has a tiny sensor on an implantable needle that talks directly to a smartphone app to monitor blood-sugar levels for diabetics. 

A British research team is working on a pill call Proteus, this pill is not your average pill, and this cyber-pill with microprocessors is capable of communicating with your smartphone and your doctor from inside your body, it’ll tell your doctor if you’re taking your medication properly and if it’s having an effect in your system. 

Tissue engineering, yay more science fiction! This is the process of taking plastic, add cells to it and if done perfectly you will be able to make skin, bone, tissue or any organ in the body. 

If these advancements are easily accessible by the general public, it would make life so much easier and smart, but the real question is are we meant to live life this way? What if we could biohack yourself to immortality? 

Could it be the end of humanity and the rise of humanoids? We’d never know. 

By Zeeshan Akram Jabeer