There's a man with an extra ear -- but it's not on his head.
Australian artist Stelarc
says it took him a decade to find a surgeon crazy enough to help him achieve
his dream: the implantation of an ear... in his arm.
Specifically,
the inner part of his upper left arm, which is probably the exact place an ear
never needs to be.
"It
isn't for my benefit," he
told the Daily Telegraph at the
Kinetica Art Fair in London. "I have two perfectly good ears, but to
explore the idea of me becoming an acoustic device for other people."
Next up: He wants to install a microphone in his implanted ear
and hook it up to the Internet so people all over the world can hear what his
arm is hearing.
Hopefully, it'll have
an off switch. There are some things arms do that we just don't want to hear
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