From:	Simon and Fiona sfuller@******.com.au
Subject:	Visionary, or crazy?
Date:	Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:03:24 +1000

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From: Jim DiCamillo <darien_7seas@*****.com>
To: shadowRN@*********.com <shadowRN@*********.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 9:19 AM
Subject: Visionary, or crazy?


>This was in my paper today, under "News of the Weird"
>
>Britian's Bat-man
>
>Reading ( England ) University professor Kevin Warwick
>already has a forearm implant of a transponder to
>allow his whereabouts to be monitored remotely.
>Warwick's next implant will give him the same "sonar"
>system that bats and porpises use for navigation by
>sending signals from the air to a microchip, which
>will be "tapped into" a nerve bundle that runs from
>Warwick's arm to his brain. Warwick believes he can
>train himself to detect what's in front of him even if
>his eyes are closed.
>
>Ah, to be a pioneer into SR tech.
>
>~Tenkilian


My vote is for crazy. I can't see sonar really working on a human, we lack
the brain functions to interpret the signals in any usable way. But hey,
more power to him (prbably 12 volts), he's in the papers again. It is good
to know that with all the quadroplegics, epileptics, diabetics, cancer
victims, and so on, that this professor is still able to spend time,
resources and equipment on this.