Re: MEDIA: A Cyborg unplugged - what is really important

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Tue Mar 19 2002 - 14:25:58 MST


the animated silicon love doll wrote:
>
> 2002.03.19 05:33:13, Louis Newstrom <louisnews@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> >allowed to be corrected. I suspect that a plastic surgeon who gave
> someone
> >three eyes or pointed ears would be frowned upon, maybe even have their
> >license revoked.
>
> Nope! At least the ears.
> <http://www.bmezine.com/news/people/A10101/htc.html> The bit on ear
> restructuring is about halfway down. Granted, Steve Haworth isn't a surgeon
> per se - but there are more people than you'd think with horns or o-rings
> in their arms or other such "weird" mods. AFAIK, Katzen's the only one
> who's gotten pointed ears, though.
>
> Three eyes would be really neat if the new one could somehow be made
> functional.

Well, since artificial eyes have been tested, it could conceivably work,
but the problem is on the processing end, since you've got only two
optic nerves. You are left with trying to splice into one of the
preexisting ones or else somehow engineering a third optic nerve.



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