Wired reports on adding senses to the human repertoire.

In primitive experiments, implanted magnets gave people the ability to sense magnetic fields.  Significantly, the project was led by “body-modification artists.”  Body-mod enthusiasts are likely to lead — or at least volunteer for — more sophisticated efforts.

One can imagine attempts to acquire infrared vision or wireless signal perception.

This kind of enhancement is more likely to create “advanced” humans soon than deliberate or accidental genetic routes that have been depicted in movies.

[Via Social Technologies]