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So after the show I watched earlier, I had to do a little more research.

I found a couple pages relevant to the topic:

This one explains a little more on the logistics of inserting an ear under the ear… exactly waht I watched.

The lifting of the ear form and the lobule construction would be done 4-6 months after the cartilage has been placed beneath the skin. Alternatives to using cartilage are silicon implants or surgical implant material such as Medpor, which is a porous polyethylene substance. The advantage of Medpor over silicon would be that it allows vascularisation and ingrowth of tissue into the implant. Cartilage is preferable, but it requires an operation under general anaesthesia…… link

This is an older news article..

While it cannot hear, with an implanted sound chip and a proximity sensor, the ear will be able to speak to anyone who gets close to it.

The artist also has plans to couple it with a modem and a wearable computer so that it doubles as an internet antenna, able to broadcast RealAudio sounds to supplement the local sounds that the actual ears hear, thus scaling up the body’s senses…… link

So basically what I saw was an ear made of cartriladge or Medpor. How bizarre! It does remind me of that picture we all saw years back that showed a mouse with a human ear seemingly growing out of his back. If you haven’t seen it, its in one of the articles. But here it is… eww.

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