Man Grows Ear on His Arm, Plans to Connect it to Internet

Stelarc, the inventor conceived the idea initially in 1996 and after lots of efforts, he found a medical team willing to help him. The medical team inserted a scaffold underneath his skin of left arm and tissue and blood vessels started growing around it. The idea behind this project, according to him, is to keep the artificial ear online all the time. He says: “If I’m not in a Wi-Fi hotspot or I switch off my home modem, then perhaps I’ll be offline, but the idea actually is to try to keep the ear online all the time.”