all righty, are you ready? i'm ready. take a nice big breath for me. well done. my chip's in? your chip's in. you're a cyborg. woohoo! yay, i'm a cyborg. meet a group of people from different corners of the world, all linked by a desire to make their bodies and brains function better. they're inserting technology under their skin. adopting extreme diets, trying to change the biology they were born with. some trying to live to 150. i would be willing to take pretty much anything in order to improve my biology. meet the bio—hackers. i've come to leicester to meet some bio—hackers

who are into body implants. and to find them, someone is coming to meet me here who has the directions in his hand. hello. are you carl? iam carl. carl, nice to meet you. have you got something for me? i got a chip in my hand. oh, my god. and that has my directions on it? yeah, it does have your directions on it. i can see the chip. it feels a bit like a matchstick in there. kind of. yeah, it's about the size of a grain of rice. ok, so, how do i get my directions from it? so, you just put your phone against the chip, hold it against it and there you go. and there it is. there it is. it's read the address of that, straight into google maps. straight into google maps. hi.

jenova rain. iam. this is jenova rain and this salon has more conventional things, like ear piercing, she inserts chips into people. so we have going in you today is an nt microchip. what kind of people are getting these chips? definitely more people that are interested just for the novelty of having one, having one and the, i've been upgraded to a cyborg. one of the reasons i want to do it is because i have an nfc reader in my car, and it has keyless entry and keyless start. so i would like to be able to start my car without needing my keys. this is my entrance into bio hacking, i've been very curious about it before, i've written about extensively, i like to automate all processes in my life if possible, and this is just another way of doing that. the chip is currently located around about here, just in the neck of the needle. that is pretty big. alrighty, are you ready?

ready. take a nice big breath for me. well done. super. all done. so, press down on that. yourchip is in. my chip is in? you're a cyborg! woo hoo! yeah, i'm a cyborg. you're a biohacker. then, the moment of truth for raven. does it actually work? ok, so now i'm approaching my nfc tag. yes! it's working! nice. her hand can now link to any website and she can hopefully programme it to open her car. i meet the next bio hacker

from london, liviu babitz has developed something called the north sense. he can literally feel north. what is inside here? lots of electronics and they have a compass shape, a blutooth and lots of weather stuff making it work. and how is it attached? there are two titanium bars, one from here to here and one from here to here. oh yeah, i can feel it. and the bar in here. piercing's here. they seem a bit red. how fresh are they? they are not that fresh, but with all the people touching, pushing. the weirdos like me. go around, face north. oh, yeah. so that is north. yes. it's like you're getting a text message, with your phone in your pocket, vibrating

when you hit north. yeah, it is a vibration, yes. for liviu, this bio hack is all about creating new human senses. some animals can already since north, why shouldn't we. he wants this to be the start of an entirely in—built navigation system. scotland, the north, netherlands, israel, paris, the us. rich lee is a ao—year—old cabinet—maker from st george in utah, in the us. so i strap this on arm and it basically charges my body. it's like a taser, i can do fun pranks byjust grabbing a door knob waiting for someone to come up and they get electrocuted. i think it's hilarious. he is also a grinder. a bio hacker that does

extreme body modification. so i've got a magnet right here in this finger, right on the side and another one on my middle finger right here, on the other side of my hands at that small nfc chip, by the size of a grain of rice right here, i got another nfc chip right here it's about yay big. over here i've got a bio thermchip, and appear at the headphone implants right in my area, this little bit of cartilage in the front of the ear. and i don't know, when i go to a restaurant, i'lljust be messing with that at the table and it always catches peoples eyes and the like wow, how's he doing that? as soon as you get it, you go around the that the world is magnet porn, and you're looking at your microwave and all these different appliances putting out really big fields and it's always going on in the background and it's just like his sense of taste or something, you just take it for granted. i want to see a biologically fluid society where people can just augment these things.

lidocaine, if i need to numb myself for a procedure, tonnes of syringes and inner muscular injections. 0k. these are fantastic legs. this home experimentation can, of course, go very badly wrong. these are the scars left by one of his failed body hacks. in—built shin guards that got so swollen, they had to come out again. and then, we had a metal rod that was basically being shoved down the length of my shin and basically separating the tissue from the shin, on the removal, i didn't use any anaesthesia at all. took out the scissors and cut the stitches and pulled it out with pliers so, that was it. there are bio hackers working far less extreme methods, and i've come to berlin to meet one. this is dirk, his bio—hacking is all about experimenting to try and optimise his health. as unrealistic as it sounds, would like to live to 150. this started with trying

to keep your hair? essentially. and spiralled. let's get this up here, that is what i take, l—carnitine, l glutamine, l tyrosine, amino acids, collagen. omega three is pretty standard. mk seven, sleep optimisation, melatonin. that is the nastiest supplement i have, i would not recommend taking that. that is just your standard... dirk is not actually diabetic, but checks his blood sugar daily to make sure it is at optimum stable levels. i would be willing to take pretty much anything in order to improve my biology. is this all available over—the—counter? what you see here is. how did you get it? it's not over the internet, actually get it from pharmacies. prescription stuff? yes.

that you haven't got a prescription for? yeah. may i ask who is doing that for you? no. what does your doctor make of what you do? my doctor doesn't know anything about this, because one important thing about bio hacking is taking 100% responsibility for your own biolgoy. i do my research myself and i do take the full responsibility for it. you want to try and live as long as possible? at the highest quality of living. if i have low quality of living, that's not really worth living. how long do you think you live? easily 150 years. i am a relatively old dad of a 16—month—old and being a biologically young dad is one of my biggest motivations behind all that. back in utah, rich lee is working on his most ambitious project yet. i've got so many vibration motors it's not even funny. the lovetron 9000, a very long—running plan for a built—in

vibrator to be installed under the skin just above the penis, basically designed to to turn him into a sex god. a material that was made to simulate flesh. it wasn't too big of a stretch just to say i am putting a vibration motor in my body, and i have one downstairs to become a sex cyborg or something like that. i've been through so many prototypes, i think i'm on number ten right now. i've sunk maybe $15,000 into it. still running through hurdles but we're getting there. my parents and my kids have been really supportive. some things theyjust think they're kind of gross but, i don't pester them about golf and they do not pester me about bio hacking. hello. mac the weather is looking pretty

quiet, coming in the satellite image fine i could see the norwegian sea across scotland there, eastern areas as well, clear skies overnight, temperatures as well. that means monday is going to be right and quite chilly, throughout much of the uk. the forecast over the coming hours, does the chance of a few showers there for northern ireland nibbling in the southwestern scotland, perhaps around the i received there, the districtjust above, you can see where the frost is, scotland and northern england to the south, it will be around five or 6 degrees. my day starts off quite sunny for many above, just the road showers here, maybe in the northwest. and then later in the morning, and afternoon, was southwest believes dragging in some cloud, so that means the many western parts and central areas will return a cloudy. so there will be overcast and the west, where new

castle will stay sunny. south—westerly winds in the west here are being slightly milder air, there'll also be two whether from someone moving into our neck of the woods, accord front here in ireland and also this warm front which is across the length of the country here towards the east, which means pretty cloudy skies on tuesday. towards the west, that weather front stays so belfast will remain dry and 12 degrees. just the chance of rain may be out towards the west, wales and southwestern england, but on the whole for many of us it is another dry day with sunny spells with a lot of cloud at times but with wednesday, much of the country will be in the single figures. wednesday and thursday, we start developing easterly winds with cold air coming

into eastern parts of europe so that thermometer is going to be plummeting once again and here is the outlook is again to the stop there by the time to get to thursday, temperatures are only around six celsius, that might be one or two spots of rain or showers here and there on the whole. this is bbc news, i'm martine croxall. the headlines at 8pm... downing street insists the crucial vote in the commons on the government's plans to leave the european union will go ahead on tuesday. in london, thousands attend rival pro and anti—brexit rallies — as one leading brexiteer says a better deal with the eu can still be negotiated. we have to change it, it's a relatively simple job to do. we can have a withdrawal agreement that does not contain the backstop, we can do much, much better than this. police in new zealand investigating the murder of british backpacker grace millane say they have found a body.

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