I became Britain's first CYBORG when I had a chip inserted in my arm 25 years ago

In August 1998, Professor Kevin Warwick inadvertently ushered an era of'biohacking' when he had a small cylindrical chip implanted in his arm. Around the length of a 2p coin, it let him open doors and switch on lights with a casual wave while walking around the cybernetics department at the University of Reading. Today, he's referred to as'Captain Cyborg' and is considered the first'biohacker' – someone who makes alterations to the body with technology to make life easier. Now the Vice-Chancellor at Coventry University, the 69-year-old looks back at the experiment a quarter of a century ago as'quite cool' and'good fun'. 'At the time nobody had done anything like that,' he told MailOnline.