Implanting ‘ear’ on arm for web link
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AN Australian artist and academic plans to connect an ear which he has been growing for years on his arm to the Internet so people can hear and track his movements.
The project by a professor from Curtin University in Western Australia, known as Stelarc (born Stelios Arcadiou), is his latest in a series of artworks exploring the boundaries of blending robotics, prosthetics and the human body.
“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,” he told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
A miniature microphone with wireless Internet connection will be inserted into the “ear,” while people will be able to track it through a GPS device placed on the body part. “There won’t be an on-off switch,” he said of the microphone.
Stelarc, the director of Alternate Anatomies Lab at Curtin, has previously created an exoskeleton, inserted a sculpture into his stomach and used a third, robotic, arm for writing.
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