Ah, yes, that personal touch.

Does this count as one of those “Florida Man” stories?

I’d think that you should be at least interesting enough to your doctor that they’ll remember who you are and what was wrong with you the last time they saw you.

But would the company medical plan cover this?

The surgical bit is already here, although not widely used, apparently -

Anything like this would immediately be adopted by the pron industry, and would probably see an order of magnitude more use in that connection.

Squirrel Nutkin wonders if you think that stylish fur collar is really worth it.

Can you imagine the leprosy rates in Texas if you could get it easily from armadillos?

That sounds more like gray squirrels. They were introduced to the UK decades ago and they’re wiping out the native red squirrels.

Giving office workers electrical shocks to keep them productive, encasing their heads in “Isolators”, reading their thought waves while they’re on the job - our corporate overlords would love these innovations. On the other hand, Gernsback deserves credit for being the visionary behind teleporn.

Margaret Atwood’s LongPen. Haven’t heard much about it in the last few years.

Ook.

When you’re the Librarian at Unseen University, you have access to all sorts of references.

A low bar.

Dunno. I just read his The Way Home and was kind of underwhelmed. Not a novel, I realize, but still relatively recent work.

Lost in Space for 25 years? I’m sure that the Robinson family can relate:

But why would we want to get rid of it?

Great 3-D reconstruction.

Gee, that’s a lot to ask.