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wirehead
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context science fiction English) a person who has an electronic brain implant. 2 (context computing English) a hardware hacker. 3 a person who likes to tinker with electronics.
Wikipedia
Wirehead is a term used in science fiction works to denote different kinds of interaction between people and technology. The typical wirehead idea is that of a wire going into a human's brain and safe amounts of electricity applied to the wire-conductor to directly interact with the brain.
Wirehead is an interactive movie developed by the Code Monkeys and MGM Interactive for the Sega CD, and published by Sega in 1995.
Wirehead was one of the last games released for the Sega CD, and one of the platform's most ambitious full-motion video productions. An enhanced version of the game was planned for the Sega 32X, but the project was cancelled.
The term Wirehead may refer to:
- Wirehead (science fiction)
- Wirehead (video game), a Sega CD game based on the science fiction concept
- Wirehead (comics), a Marvel Comics villain
- WireHead, a musical band formed in 2007 by Clive Edwards
- An amateur radio operator who builds their own equipment (colloquial).
Usage examples of "wirehead".
I rounded a corner and nearly tripped over a wirehead sitting on the sidewalk in front of a hole-in-the-wall hardware store.
I thought of Karen in the harsh light of her living room lamp, and of the young wirehead I had left shredding his identification.
As my tea arrived, the thought jumped into my head: if Charlie Parker had been a wirehead, all those copycats would have had to work for a living.
It was of some help to me in capturing the wirehead industry, and concealing the extent of my own involvement in it.
The only people with interest enough and leverage enough are the big wirehead outfitsand why the hell would they take risks like that to suppress something that would probably triple their income or better?
Jacquesor his agentused some kind of wirehead field to keep us docile while he picked our brains and left us his invitation.
You have learned how to make involuntary wireheads, and used that ability to make sure it stays exclusively yours.
Stipulating that the existence of the wirehead trade was undesirable, Karen's silly secret-agent stunt was the wrong way to go about abolishing it.