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<blockquote data-quote="Bleep" data-source="post: 212311" data-attributes="member: 23595"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 11px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #666666"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 12px">Recently, a man in America has implanted some homemade headphones into his ears.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 11px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #666666"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 12px">Rich Lee is the first person ever to surgically insert a magnet into part of his ear - the tragus. The tragus is the firm bit of skin that is in front of the ear canal.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 11px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #666666"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 12px">To get the implant to work, Mr Lee has to wear a coil device around his neck. The device then creates a magnetic field which causes the implant to vibrate and to create sound. In other words, the implant in the tragus works like a set of headphones and it sends audio directly to the ear when it is used with the coil.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 11px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #666666"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 12px">Mr Lee is almost completely blind in one eye and he has been told by specialists that he could lose his other eye at any time. Instead of Rich accepting his fate, he has plans to hook the homemade implant up to an ultrasonic range-finder. He has said that this will give him "a sense of echolocation like a bat has". He has also said that he might connect it to a Geiger counter, which detects radioactivity.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 11px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #666666"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 12px">Mr Lee has said: "I'd love to experience the world or radiation. Living near the old Nevada nuclear testing grounds provides a lot of opportunity for this. Hearing a gentle hiss around warm objects might be a novel way to experience the thermal realm. The implant is going to allow for a lot of new senses."</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 11px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #666666"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 12px">The cool thing about Rich Lee's invention is that it could make it possible to cheat in exams.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 11px"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #666666"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 12px">DIY 'biohacking' has been on the rise over the last few years with several groups and individuals experimenting with implanted technology. 'Grinders' use objects such as magnets and radio-frequency chips in order to gain or improve different senses. One American man implanted 4 magnets into his arm just to hold his iPad Nano.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000">What are <strong>YOUR</strong> thoughts on this? Personally, I think he's fucking stupid.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #000000"><img src="http://www.habbcrazy.net/_assets/_img/_uploads/51cccefa549b051cccefa549ec.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bleep, post: 212311, member: 23595"] [CENTER][SIZE=11px][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#666666][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=3]Recently, a man in America has implanted some homemade headphones into his ears.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/CENTER] [CENTER][SIZE=11px][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#666666][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=3]Rich Lee is the first person ever to surgically insert a magnet into part of his ear - the tragus. The tragus is the firm bit of skin that is in front of the ear canal.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/CENTER] [CENTER][SIZE=11px][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#666666][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/COLOR][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/CENTER] [CENTER][SIZE=11px][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#666666][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=3]To get the implant to work, Mr Lee has to wear a coil device around his neck. The device then creates a magnetic field which causes the implant to vibrate and to create sound. In other words, the implant in the tragus works like a set of headphones and it sends audio directly to the ear when it is used with the coil.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/CENTER] [CENTER][SIZE=11px][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#666666][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/COLOR][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/CENTER] [CENTER][SIZE=11px][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#666666][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=3]Mr Lee is almost completely blind in one eye and he has been told by specialists that he could lose his other eye at any time. Instead of Rich accepting his fate, he has plans to hook the homemade implant up to an ultrasonic range-finder. He has said that this will give him "a sense of echolocation like a bat has". He has also said that he might connect it to a Geiger counter, which detects radioactivity.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/CENTER] [CENTER][SIZE=11px][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#666666][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/COLOR][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/CENTER] [CENTER][SIZE=11px][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#666666][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=3]Mr Lee has said: "I'd love to experience the world or radiation. Living near the old Nevada nuclear testing grounds provides a lot of opportunity for this. Hearing a gentle hiss around warm objects might be a novel way to experience the thermal realm. The implant is going to allow for a lot of new senses."[/SIZE][/COLOR][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/CENTER] [CENTER][SIZE=11px][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#666666][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/COLOR][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/CENTER] [CENTER][SIZE=11px][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#666666][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=3]The cool thing about Rich Lee's invention is that it could make it possible to cheat in exams.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/CENTER] [CENTER][SIZE=11px][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#666666][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=3]DIY 'biohacking' has been on the rise over the last few years with several groups and individuals experimenting with implanted technology. 'Grinders' use objects such as magnets and radio-frequency chips in order to gain or improve different senses. One American man implanted 4 magnets into his arm just to hold his iPad Nano.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/CENTER] [SIZE=11px][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#666666] [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [CENTER][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#666666][SIZE=4][COLOR=#000000]What are [B]YOUR[/B] thoughts on this? Personally, I think he's fucking stupid.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/CENTER] [CENTER][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#666666] [/COLOR][/FONT][/CENTER] [CENTER][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#666666][SIZE=4][COLOR=#000000][IMG]http://www.habbcrazy.net/_assets/_img/_uploads/51cccefa549b051cccefa549ec.jpg[/IMG][/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]
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