Special Reports & Tweets - 20130709_SpecialReport_Alex
Aired: 2013-07-09
Duration: 01:57


=== Speakers in Ears (01:57) ===

[00:00:00]  Cyborgs, body hackers, grinders, and biohackers are all about modification to achieve now
[00:00:17]  what most people talk about having in the future.
[00:00:20]  Bodyhacker Rich Lee, a transhumanist of sorts, recently modified his ears with speakers.
[00:00:27]  With a coil around his neck and magnets in his ears, he can now hear music anytime without anyone knowing it.
[00:00:34]  In his YouTube video, he describes the experience.
[00:00:37]  Let's take a listen.
[00:00:38]  So it goes like this.
[00:00:39]  You can stick magnets into your ears, get a coil and an amplifier, stick the coil around your neck, you gotta have a backup supply of batteries like this, but once the coil's on your neck, you can plug a jack into your phone, it's amplified, right?
[00:00:58]  Instead of sending it through earbuds like it would with headphones or whatever, it sends it into a coil.
[00:01:06]  So what does that do?
[00:01:07]  That creates a magnetic field That causes the magnets in my ears to create sound.
[00:01:12]  He hopes his design could be used as a GPS navigator or a radiation detector.
[00:01:18]  In other new wearable technologies, there's the bra with superpowers.
[00:01:23]  These non-evasive, non-radiogenic bras come from a company called First Warning Systems.
[00:01:29]  No, it doesn't taser the TSA during a pat-down.
[00:01:32]  It doesn't look like the fembox.
[00:01:34]  These bras can detect abnormal cellular changes.
[00:01:37]  Truly a breakthrough in breast health.
[00:01:40]  In more wearable technologies, be on the lookout for an intelligent track suit that provides a program to train better posture.
[00:01:47]  Before venturing too far into transhumanism, go to InfoWarshop.com and buy Robot Alchemy.
[00:01:54]  Androids, cyborgs, and the magic of artificial life.