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In a combination of artistic expression and cutting edge medical technology, Curtin University professor and artist Stelarc is working on a project to grow a human ear on his forearm and connect it, via microphone, to the Internet.
"People's reactions range from bemusement to bewilderment to curiosity, but you don't really expect people to understand the art component of all of this," Stelarc said.
A medical team built a scaffold of the ear under the skin, within six months blood vessels and tissue began to grow around it.
The next step is to make the ear more three-dimensional — lifting it up off the arm and growing an ear lobe from Stelarc's stem cells.
Selarc's plan is to embed a microphone into the ear and connect it to the Internet, so anyone, anywhere, anytime can listen in. He's not planning to wire in an off-line option.
"Increasingly now, people are becoming internet portals of experience ... imagine if I could hear with the ears of someone in New York, imagine if I at the same time could see with the eyes of someone in London."
Original story from the ABC.
An interview with Stelarc.
Stelarc's web page for the project.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 12 2015, @08:42AM
Internet-connected man murders wife in fit of rage, with the entire Internet listening in. Prosecutors agree to drop all charges against him, in exchange for wiring every person with a mandatory microphone to record everything everyone does all the time.
(Score: 1) by xav on Wednesday August 12 2015, @12:18PM
Such guys are single and will remain so.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 12 2015, @02:16PM
Not all internet-connected men are single despite all single men being connected!
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday August 12 2015, @05:16PM
Which demographic? Guys on the Internet? Murderers? Artists?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1) by xav on Wednesday August 12 2015, @05:23PM
Guys that grow ears on their arms and offer anyone on the Internet the possibility to listen to their surroundings day and night. I can't imagine a wife would accept this.