This is what they're showing you. What they're not showing you is even more terrifying

Why does the media always say at the end of these articles "Realistically, though, we’re a long way away from such applications "?  

Bullshit.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/135207-harvard-creates-cyborg-flesh-thats-half-man-half-machine

Here's some evidence something entirely not kosher is happening to me:

http://anyaisachannel.blogspot.com/2011/03/anomalous-object-showed-up-on-my-tooth.html

and some more high weirdness:

http://anyaisachannel.blogspot.com/2012/04/re-marks-on-body-courtesy-of-gizeh.html

http://anyaisachannel.blogspot.com/2013/06/more-in-truth-is-stranger-than-fiction.html

Davos 2013: world leaders to discuss aliens, super-humans, and immortals: Voice of Russia

Davos 2013: world leaders to discuss aliens, super-humans, and immortals: Voice of Russia

DARPA Building Real Life Terminators Military Robots