The Ear, the Eye on the Arm

Australian performance artist Prof. Stelarc shows off his third ear                                screen shot

There is something new under the sun. There are apparently those among us who enjoy the idea of having superpowers so much that they are willing to implant, modify, and inject. This story is not for the squeamish, but it is for the curious. If you're both, consider yourself warned. I've posted about this topic before (http://somanyinterestingthings.blogspot.com/2013/11/man-as-machine.html), and the caveat I wrote there applies here as well: the videos are disturbing. In addition to the individual in the picture above, there's Gabriel Licina, who had a chemical mixture dropped on his eyes that turned them black but allows him to see in the dark, to a certain extent, and Jerry Jalava, who replaced the finger he lost in an accident with a USB stick (story, videos): http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2015/aug/14/body-hackers-the-people-who-turn-themselves-into-cyborgs?CMP=ema_565
   The title of this post is a slight modification itself ~ of a great science fiction novel called The Ear, the Eye and the Arm. It's by Nancy Farmer and, I guess, would officially be placed in the Young Adult section, but don't let that stop you.