First cyborg professor & cyborg-to-be spouse

from the those-wacky-English dept.
eamon writes "CNN.com reports Professor [Kevin Warwick] to wire computer chip into his nervous system.The head of the Cybernetics Department at the the University of Reading in the U.K…Surgeons will connect the chip to his nervous system through nerve fibers in his left arm, and the chip will exchange signals between his brain and a computer…If the experiment is successful, Warwick's wife Irena will also receive a silicon chip implant to explore how movement, thought and emotion can be transmitted from one person to another."