Rich Lee is tired of waiting for the future.

Describing himself as a biohacker, transhumanist, and space gangster, his expectations of what tomorrow would look like were set—like they were for so many of us—by the flying cars, dial-a-breakfast machines and robot servants shown in Jetsons cartoons. (Here's what 2015 Was Supposed to Look Like, According to Old Science Fiction Movies.)

In his formative years, Rich would read through back issues of pop-culture magazines saved by his grandmother, soaking up articles that predicted we'd be living to be 200, have cities on the moon, and commute by jet-pack by 1999.

It was, he learned, just garbage from futurists. So, instead of waiting for that gizmo-saturated tomorrow to materialize, Rich decided to take matters in to his own hands.

He stopped putting faith the predictions of futurists, started evaluating the technology of today, and began to realize that while we are surrounded by innovation, we aren't doing ourselves much justice in terms of its application.

Technology, it seemed, wasn't living up to its potential. Rich has dedicated himself to changing that, to challenging the limits of what technology can impact, and he's using his own body as a living laboratory.

Biohacking is exactly what it sounds like. Instead of microprocessors, it's muscle and bone. Instead of silicon, it's sensory—and sensual—enhancement. The technology to up-mod our physical selves exists, Rich claims. And he's in the process of proving it.

Men's Health: Start us off with an explanation of biohacking. This isn't like getting braces or a knee replacement.

Rich Lee: For me, it's the perception enhancement of the physical senses themselves. It's different for everyone, and any biohacker can have their own motivations, but I'm looking to expand what we are physically capable of on a sensory level. Like seeing an extended spectrum, infrared and ultraviolet or whatever.

MH: What's the end game of biohacking? Is there one?

Rich Lee: My focus is on the removal of needs. You know Maslowe's hierarchy of needs? The basics of breathing, eating, water, up through safety, sex, love, and belonging, all the way through self-actualization. Every item on that pyramid I want to eliminate. I'm starting with things like food, sleep. It's incredibly ambitious and there's no way in hell I can do it, but that's my hit list.

MH: You want to biohack yourself so you don't have to eat or sleep or get laid?

Rich Lee: I want to hack it. The physiological needs, for starters. It's the entire human condition, and in a way those are weaknesses. If you have a need, you can be controlled through that need. That makes people who can control the resources for that need very dangerous people.

MH: Like the Koch Brothers and their control of toilet paper.

Rich Lee: Need creates dangerous systems of dependency. If we remove needs, we eliminate that control.

MH: So an example might be biohacking your body with solar receptors somehow capable of photosynthesis, which eliminates your need to eat.

Rich Lee: There you go.

MH: McDonald's is going to kick in your door in the middle of the night.

Rich Lee: But seriously, imagine if we could control our own homeostasis with internal heating and cooling systems. Do you need clothing? Do you even need shelter?

MH: That's some beyond-Azimov thinking. How realistic is that, honestly?

Rich Lee: Some ideas are pretty feasible. Sure, some might just put a dent in those needs, but some are already starting to work. Water, for example. I'm working on an add-on that will allow you to extract all the water you need from the air you breathe. The technology to make it happen exists. It just needs to be purposed and perfected.

MH: And that visionary mentality applies to other needs, other thirsts, I understand?

Rich Lee: I'm planning a bunch of different implants and devices, interventions that meet those needs.

MH: Like the human vibrator?

Rich Lee: Like the human vibrator.

MH: I don't even know where to begin the line of inquiry, so just tell me about transforming yourself into an oscillating pleasure device.

Rich Lee: The Lovetron9000 is an implant, inserted beneath a man's pubic bone.

MH: And it makes your penis vibrate. Not something envisioned by a futurist focus group, I'm guessing. So how is this going to reach the masses? Doesn't sound like an in-patient procedure covered by Obamacare.

Rich Lee: I'm going to stay away from doctors. Doctors are cost prohibitive and the price would just get crazy. I want to keep it affordable. I'm sickened by the medical device industry. It's really corrupt. Everything is over priced, needs FDA approval. There are better ways.

MH: To get a vibrating penis. Sure. So?

Rich Lee: My plan is to keep it in the body modification industry. You head down to your local piercing shop or tattoo parlor. The device can be inserted pretty easily. It's a small incision, maybe three stitches. And it runs on a rechargeable battery that will probably operate for about 45 minutes.

MH: Okay, okay—we have biohacking, and we have this ubiquitous pharmaceutical industry. Do you see synergy there? A man gets his Lovetron9000 installed, he picks ups some black-market Viagra, and he's transformed into a vibrating, euphoria-dispensing cyber-demon.

Rich Lee: That's absolutely possible. Though I've taken Viagra recreationally, I don't need it. But it is awesome.

MH: As awesome as the Lovetron?

Rich Lee: It has it's risks. Viagra cost me an eyeball.

MH: What?

Rich Lee: I have this eye condition. I took a Viagra back in '05 or '06, had a night of crazy sex, then woke up with blurry vision in one eye. It persisted, so I went to the doctor. Turns out I needed a cornea transplant. Apparently you run the risk of going blind. It's almost worth it.

MH: So this desire to self-experiment, with biohacking, with drugs, it's a means of finding the threshold of human capability and experience in a way?

Rich Lee: You can say that. I have other biohacker friends who know of a substance that eliminates the recovery time between orgasms for men. The multiple orgasms women can have? Men are going to have that capability.

MH: You're going to short out your Lovetron. But this is fascinating. Do you think you're transforming men into sex toys, into devices typically relegated to the bottom drawer of the night stand?

(Oh relax. Here are 7 Reasons Why Men Will Never Be Replaced by Vibrators.)

Rich Lee: I doubt men would mind that. My concern is that 15 or 20 years from now, you might be the guy in the bar who doesn't have a Lovetron9000, and then you're insecure. I don't want it to be the breast enhancement for men.

MH: If you create a society where men are consistently giving women multiple orgasms, I think those concerns are going to fade fast. So since you're always thinking forward, what's next?

Rich Lee: We can go further. The next step is to interface two implants, create a feedback loop sending pleasure signals back and forth so you feel what your partner feels. That's the next level. Really, we could have a multiplayer online orgy. All the technology exits. It can all be done.

(Penis technology has gotten so wonderfully weird in recent years. Used to be, if somebody lobbed off your weenie, that was it. But now, Lab-Grown Penises Aren't Science Fiction Any More.)

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