Jonathan Oxer is Australia's geekiest geek. The internet business owner has fitted his house out with a computer system that is controlled by a chip inserted in his wrist.

He now has an armful of mobile phones and touch pads that operate all variety of appliances and automated furnishings in his home.

When Jonathan returns home he can gain access to the house with his implanted wrist in the same way a worker enters an office building with a pass-card.

The wrist chip communicates with a mainframe within his house where a set of instructions controls different parts of the house.

The chip in his arm is the same one put into cats and dogs - but re-configured so it is able to speak to a main computer system inside. 

Jonathan's house-size hobby means all the technology has been designed by him but is easy to find in any shop. 

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A truly networked home 

Jonathan is also able to lock all windows, draw curtains, turn on the shower to a certain temperature, turn on lights, all through the push of a few buttons or swiping his arm on sensors.

If he is not home and someone rings the doorbell - a camera switches on and let's him know who is at the door. He can then use his phone to grant access in to the house.

Jonathan says from young age he has been fascinated at manipuating devices, he wants to know why the work and how they can be used for other purposes.

"Jonathan says his house is a work in
project and continuing science project."

He lives at home with his wife and two children - they all enjoy what techonology surprise he'll come up with next.

He says every kid wants to live in the future, he's just trying to bring it here quicker.  

Not the first, definitely not the last

A cybernetics engineer in the USA, Professor Kevin Warwick, has inserted an implant into his arm that communicates via radio waves with a network of antennas throughout his university department. This in turn transmits the signals to a computer programmed to respond to his actions and his location.

The cybernetics pioneer says he plans to send signals back and forth between my nervous system and a computer in the near future.

Wired Magazine reported his advances, saying

Warwick told a press conference that a glass capsule containing an electromagnetic coil and a silicon chip, less than an inch long and bit wider than a piece of cardboard, was inserted into his arm Monday.

"It is a research experiment," said Warwick, head of the Cybernetics Department at the University of Reading. "I don't know how long we will leave the implant in, but it's looking at what's possible now in terms of communicating between a computer and myself."

More info

Jon Oxer's blog

Professor Cyborg - WIRED