--- author: Eric Wagoner date: '1999-11-03T11:54:05' draft: false title: Two tech stories from the --- Two tech stories from the BBC: [_A cybernetics expert is planning to hand over control of his body to a computer in the latest of his high profile experiments_](http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_503000/503552.stm) and [_Scientists in the United Kingdom are developing a prototype robot slug-destroyer, which draws its power from the decomposing bodies of its victims_](http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_503000/503149.stm).