


Kevin Warwicks vision for the future is bold. In it, he says, humans and machines will be one. (Photo: Ari Daniel Shapiro)

Rebecca Davey crouches behind a series of security scanners at the University of Manchester library. She can detect their magnetic field with her implant. (Photo: Ari Daniel Shapiro)

Ian Harrisons magnetic implants in his two fingers allow him to attract small metal objects in his environment, like these magnetic discs. (Photo: Ari Daniel Shapiro)

Two of the devices that Kevin Warwick had implanted into his body: the neuronal implant (above his wrist) and an RFID tag (in his palm). (Photo: Ari Daniel Shapiro)

Kevin Warwick shows off an electronic baseball cap that allowed him to navigate his lab like a bat with a kind of echolocation. (Photo: Ari Daniel Shapiro)

Rebecca Davey crouches behind a series of security scanners at the University of Manchester library. She can detect their magnetic field with her implant. (Photo: Ari Daniel Shapiro)

The magnet implanted in Rebecca Daveys ring finger overwhelms the magnetic sensor on her cell phone. (Photo: Ari Daniel Shapiro)