More Human Than Human - humanupgrades.com

Every now and then I come across a site so creatively strange that I have to mention it. Humanupgrades.com certainly qualifies. This well designed flash-enabled site is a realistic sounding, but fake, DNA upgrade site that advertises a myriad of surgical upgrades, including wireless implants, redesigned ears, single nose holes, single teeth, second opposable thumbs, and more bizarre treats such as female body part modifications (sold as “simplecunt” - NSFW, obviously), Palmclits, and other sexual mods including a new tongue down below (feel free to search for this picture). What’s interesting about this site is the amount of time spent coming up with medical sounding descriptions for each procedure, and the pictures of the facility, etc. The flash is clean, but I will say that the site really needs an editing once-over.

Again, as a joke site, it’s rather well done. While clearly over-the-top, it does give us an interesting thought or two about what we could do if we ever got complete control over genetics and DNA at some point in the near future. We usually think of body modifications as being cybernetically based, but this site shows that we could still be fully made out of human material, but, um, just different!