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'Third Ear' Implanted Into Artist's Arm

by Tom Samiljan on October 12, 2007 at 05:10 PM



So far this year, artists have stuffed a dead frog into a computer and allowed themselves to be shot at, but nothing beats the latest project by Stelios Arcadious, at least as far as shock value is concerned. After ten years if trying, the Cyprus-born artist finally found a surgeon to implant a third ear into his left arm.

Cosmetically-speaking, it's a real ear, grown in a lab from cells, but so far it doesn't have any aural capabilities. Arcardious says he wants to add a Bluetooth transmitter and a tiny microphone to the ear, so that people "can listen to what my ear is hearing."

Whether the sounds heard by an ear in an arm are all that different from the sounds picked up by regular ears on a head remains to be seen (or heard), but color us horrified -- and fascinated.

From Daily Mail.

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Tags: Art, Bluetooth, Weird

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