Nevada man Rich Lee has adopted extreme measures to get rid of plugging headphones each time he wants to listen to music. He went ahead and implanted magnets directly into his ears.

Lee, a body enhancement enthusiast who experiments with surgical implants, explains that he embedded small magnets into his tragus - a small piece of cartilage just outside the ear - and built a coil that's worn around the neck. To enjoy his favourite music, Lee plugs his phone into a small amplifier that's connected to the coil. He claims that this creates a magnetic field that causes the implant to vibrate and make a sound. Because of this magnetic field, the magnets then create sound which only he can hear.

Writing in the magazine Humanity+ Lee said, "Having stuff like this done isn't really the realm of doctors. Most Grinders rely on body modification artists to install their implants. I've had work done by the body modification master Steve Haworth in the past and have relied on him for advice on several project ideas. Steve instinctively knew the best way to go about the implantation in a way that would minimise chances for infection and would leave no scarring. The implant procedure itself went very smoothly and the pain was surprisingly minimal."

He doesn't shy away to admit that the sound quality isn't as good as it would be with a pair of headphones. But there are great advantages to this too. He can tune into music and start listening anytime and anywhere. The highlight of the whole experiment is that the implants can't be seen by anyone. They seem to be embedded in the skin so well that the naked eye can't spot them.

He said he planned to hook it to the GPS on his phone so the service can give him directions where and when he wants. Lee also wants to try to connect it to a directional microphone in a shirt button so that he can hear conversations across a room. He also plans to link the implants up to an ultrasonic rangefinder so that it hums when he gets closer to an object.

He believes that this would give him a sense of echolocation and that this invention could eventually prove helpful for the blind. He wrote "Echolocation is something I want to start practicing with now because I might be legally blind soon. I lost much of vision in my right eye overnight a few years back. I just woke up and couldn't see well up close or far away. My other eye has compensated for the vision loss but the doc says the good eye can go at any time and when it does it will be very rapid. I'll lose my driver's licence, won't be able to read, and glasses won't correct the problem. So I figure learning to navigate with echolocation is a good thing to develop now, not that I've resigned myself to blindness or anything."

We have heard of people's passion for music. Their love for music so much they need it all the time. But to what extent would you go to so you would have music play 'inside you' (literally)! Would you want get headphones implanted too?

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