Word: borge
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...approval, doctors will load a wide-bore needle with a microchip containing a few kilobytes of silicon memory and a tiny radio transmitter and inject it under the skin of their left arms, where it will serve as a medical identification device. It sounds like science fiction. (Remember the Borg on Star Trek? Resistance is futile!) But VeriChip is quite real. The Jacobs family could be the first in a new generation of computer-enhanced human beings...
...should see me now, looking like Jean-Luc Picard that time when he was captured by the dreaded Borg and turned into one of them: half-man, half-machine. Part of my face and most of the top of my head are covered by evil-looking electronic gadgetry; there is more scary stuff strapped to my left wrist and around my waist. Getting into character, I wander around a giant shopping mall in Fairfax, just outside Washington, D.C., frightening the living daylights out of small children. It's all I can do to stop myself from intoning, like the captain...
...talking about me: I still swear by my old Palm Pilot. Would I buy a wearable? Yes, if it weighs less than a kilo, costs less than $1,500 and - as cool as I felt at that Fairfax mall - doesn't make me look like a Borg...
...Jeri Ryan plays this half borg, but the only inhuman thing I can see about her is this little design on her cheek, unless borgs have giant breasts...
...amply endowed, but I don't think that's typical of the borg...