Rich Lee is still experimenting with his new surgically implanted headphones. "So far so good. I have broken several devices over the past week in an attempt to fine-tune it, " he tells CNET.
(Credit: Rich Lee/H+ Magazine)
Headphones can be so easy to lose — but not when you have them implanted in your ears.
That’s what Rich Lee decided to do. Inspired by an Instructables tutorial on how to make invisible headphones using magnets and a coil necklace with an attached amplifier, the 34-year-old entrepreneur went a step further and implanted one such headphone in each ear.
The scar on Lee’s tragus is barely visible. This picture was taken the day he had his stitches taken out. (Click to enlarge.)
(Credit: Rich Lee/H+ Magazine)
The magnets sit on the outside of the tragus, the part of the ear that projects immediately in front of the canal. The magnets function as speakers, and the coil around Lee’s neck transmits to them.
The procedure, performed by Gilbert, Ariz., body modification artist Steve Haworth, “went very smoothly and the pain… [Read more]
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