mo4ch:>The transhumanist: Russian student who lost sight after explosion developing bionic eyes for himself | Mo4ch News

He sleeps two hours a night, plays guitar with a custom prosthesis, and has illegally implanted a microchip. When Evgeny Nekrasov was disfigured by an accident at 14, he decided to leverage future technology to build a new life.‘Hands turned into mush’Evgeny, now 21, has no recollection of “messing around” after school with his friends in hometown Vladivostok and picking up the gas canister that exploded in his hands and into his face.But the days after he woke up without sight in hospital are hard-coded in his memory.“My hands were crushed into a mush. Still on life support, I started to feel around with my feet, and discovered there was no right wrist. The doctor told me straight ‘It was blown off,’” he told Yandex in an interview. “This is how my less ordinary life began.”‘I had to bend hardware to my will’Evgeny says he was never despondent, finding support in his family and inspiration in the lives of others who overcame debilitating conditions, like Stephen Hawking, despite havi…