*No one should ever tell you that Wired UK lacks weirdness.
http://hplusmagazine.com/2012/10/23/wired-uk-transhuman-week/
"When Lepht Anonym (((somehow I'm imagining that this wasn't Ms Lepht's given name))) hit the world stage in 2011 to describe how she cut open her flesh with vodka-sterilised vegetable peelers to stick bits of metal under her skin, there were probably a fair few intakes of breath. There was also a huge sigh of relief from a rapidly growing minority. Her words sowed a seed in the minds of people who had long-harboured thoughts of being superhuman, of fulfilling a childhood fantasy and becoming a cyborg. That seed said it was ok to experiment and suggested, instead of waiting for the impossible to happen, why not pick up your (sterilised) tools and make something possible happen today.
"I heard about finger magnets in April and by May I had an implant," Tim Cannon, co-founder of the Pittsburgh-based DIY bodyhacking group Grindhouse Wetware tells Wired.co.uk. "As soon as I heard that you could get this extra sense, I was blown away. Now I can feel electromagnetic fields"....
