We are the Borg. Resistance is futile.

OXFORD, England -- A British university professor has been fitted with cyborg technology enabling his nervous system to be linked to a computer.

The ground-breaking surgery on Professor Kevin Warwick effectively makes him the world's first cyborg -- part human, part machine.

Although a long way from fictional characters The Terminator or the Six Million Dollar Man, it is hoped that readings will be taken from the implant in his arm of electrical impulses coursing through his nerves.

These signals, encoding movements like wiggling fingers and feelings like shock and pain, will be transmitted to a computer and recorded for the first time.

Similar experiments have previously only ever been carried out on cats and monkeys in the United States.

Surgeons implanted a silicon square about 3mm wide into an incision in Warwick's left wrist and attached its 100 electrodes, each as thin as a hair, into the median nerve.

Connecting wires were fed under the skin of the forearm and out from a skin puncture and the wounds were sewn up.

The wires will be linked to a transmitter/receiver device to relay nerve messages to a computer by radio signal.

It is possible that the procedure could lead to a medical breakthrough for people paralysed by spinal cord damage, such as Superman actor Christopher Reeve.

On Friday, Warwick, 48, denied claims that the surgery, which was carried out at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, England, was just a publicity stunt.

'Change the world' "To go through a two-hour operation I would say is a little bit extreme for a publicity stunt," he told the BBC.

"To say no you can't do this or this is publicity is absolutely crazy at this stage when we haven't even looked at it."

He said the £500,000 ($715,000) experiment was about "seriously helping people" with spinal injuries.

He added: "This has not been done on a human before so for someone to say this is not going to tell us much ... we don't know.

"We really don't know but we want to find out what sort of signals we are going to get and what sort of signals we can put in."

Researchers at the university's department of cybernetics will carry out experiments on Warwick for about a month.

He said: "What we're doing is historic and momentous. It is going to change the world.

"Science fiction has predicted this for quite some time. As a scientist, I'm excited about taking a step into the future.

"But as a human I do share the ethical concerns about what it will mean for humanity."

Warwick also hopes to wire himself up to a ultrasonic sensor, used by robots to navigate around objects, to give himself a bat-like sixth sense.

He believes the technique could be developed within a decade to restore movement to a tetraplegic's hand or feeling to a prosthetic leg used by an amputee.

"For someone like Christopher Reeve, it might not bring back complex movement. But if it could allow him to control a bit of technology to pick up a cup, it would be enormously useful," he said.

Warwick has already been a guinea pig for his own experiments.

In 1998 a silicon chip, which turned on lights and opened doors when he walked into his office, was implanted in his arm.

Stolen from: http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/03/22/human.cyborg/index.html

 

only a matter of time n ya can consign that joypad collection to storage lomo..... and i bet ya can't wait to tinker with the soldering iron

 

That's exactly what I'm thinkin... Hook me up to the fuckin' games!

Sighs... Once a solder monkey, always a solder monkey.

 

kick ass...*thinks about a kitana fembot* wow....

 

yeh and your trusty sidekick bitch of the year

 

[ah-nuld]"Here. I cannot self-terminate. You must lower me into the steel."[/ah-nuld]

 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="verdana">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by tommy710:
yeh and your trusty sidekick bitch of the year<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

oh yeah, imagine how we would look...
n nursey, too. i want nursey to be a fembot in our team.

 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="verdana">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Kurious Kit:
oh yeah, imagine how we would look...
n nursey, too. i want nursey to be a fembot in our team.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

i'm in a team on my own!

 

xzchuoiumntsz:

 

xzchuoiumntsz:

 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="verdana">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Nursey:
i'm in a team on my own! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

fine then.

 

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It's the mark of the beast I tell ya! Christians beware!!

 

Boy, wouldn't one of those be fun at the airport nowadays?

 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="verdana">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Nauseous:
It's the mark of the beast I tell ya! Christians beware!! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

oh, so you heard that too

 

I wonder how long it is going to take before we see the first cybrog-dildo attachment?

I am sure john wayne bobbit will benifit somehow from all of this.

 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="verdana">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Codek:
I am sure john wayne bobbit will benifit somehow from all of this.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I went to high school with Lorena Bobbit's cousin. I remember seein' him on TV testify'n against John. Accordin' to him, John used to tell him and his buddie about how Lorena liked it rough...I guess she didn't like it as much as he thought...

 

That's right...that whole penis-manicure happened just a few towns away from you, didn't it?

 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="verdana">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Ulfur Engil:
That's right...that whole penis-manicure happened just a few towns away from you, didn't it?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yep, and Lorena's actually from my hometown...Stafford, VA. She still lives there I think. Her and John were livin a little further up north when it all went down though. This thread is startin to make me wonder why mexican chics have a thing for cuttin' a guys genitals off *looks in Kit's direction*

 

she's not a mexican she's a texican dammit

(there.. i just saved her posting again )

 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="verdana">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by ~pimpchichi~:
she's not a mexican she's a texican dammit

(there.. i just saved her posting again )<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

She's nut a texican, she's a hispanklick dammit

(Haha....so did I )