For diminutive men such as French President Nicolas Sarkozy, famously overshadowed by his wife Carla Bruni, a pair of stack heels used to be the only way to stand tall. But a surgeon has devised a new way of adding up to 2in to a person's height - inserting a silicone head implant. During a 90-minute operation an incision is made in the side of the head and the implant squeezed in between the skull and the scalp. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago tags head implant height silicone skull |
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First, researchers grew enough fungus to give dandruff to 10 million people. Next, they sequenced its genes. Then they found out that not only does an icky fungus live on your head and cause dandruff - but it could be having sex. On your head. Right now. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 4 comments edit related share science |
Wolverine has his retractable claws, but real-life technology is catching up with comic book super heroes. Dvice lists eight awesome things you can implant into your body. If someone could have all of these, they would rival any pop culture super hero! Themepic is a prosthetic speech implant, which can turn your thoughts into audible communication. picked by bingo 7 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
One of the cutting-edge cures for chronic muscle tremors is called a thalamic stimulator - it's a brain implant that delivers current to your thalamus. But it can also cause intensely pleasurable erotic feelings, leading one woman into implant addiction. picked by Bornbad 2 weeks ago 0 comments edit related share science |
Beard Head beard caps will protect your head from the cold and keep your upper lip and chin toasty warm, much like a real beard would! 3 comments edit related share plime.comFor those of us not manly enough to grow a beard or the female Plimers picked by DoggyLives 9 months ago |
A British children's book writer and artist has offered his own head to replace a collection of shrunken heads that a museum may return to South America. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago 1 comments edit related share weird |
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One doctor thought the bleeding, strange bumps on Aaron Dallas' head might have been a gnat bite. A specialist thought it was shingles. Then the bumps started to move. It turns out five bot fly larvae were living on Dallas' head, near the top of his skull. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
SHAWNEE, Kan. - George Chandler said he feels fine, even though a nailgun fired a 2.5 inch nail into the top of his head on Friday. 2 comments edit related share weirdDoctor used a common claw hammer to remove the nail picked by bevissimo 1 year ago |
Can a head live without a body? The answer should be simple: yes, but only for a little while. Scientists say that the brain continues to function for about two minutes after the heart stops. But can a lopped off head continue to survive after being completely severed from the body? 0 comments edit related share weird*classic interwebs* picked by Bornbad 4 months ago |
A Mississippi woman who was shot in the head not only survived but made herself tea and offered an astonished deputy something to drink picked by suebe 8 months ago 1 comments edit related share weird |
Austrailian artist Stelarc — formerly Stelios Arcadiou — spent 10 long years searching for a surgeon willing to perform a controversial operation to implant a third ear onto his forearm ‘in the name of art,’ which was created in a lab from human cartilage. picked by deepchill 2 years ago 3 comments edit related share arts |
A former handyman from North Providence who won more than $400,000 in a lawsuit over a malfunctioning penile implant may not get the money after a judge dismissed his claim. picked by tlovesd 3 years ago 1 comments edit related share weird |
A human head found an attic when remodleing. 1 comments edit related share weirdP.S. This was near where I live. picked by zulublue42 1 year ago |
This happens to me at least once a month. picked by gnikgnok 3 years ago 5 comments edit related share plime.com |
Police have released shocking X-ray images of a 16-year-old with a knife lodged in his head after a stabbing in London, England, to serve as a warning about the dangers of knife crime. picked by aclister 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share world |
Women should not feel obliged to wear high heels at work, trade unionists will argue at next month’s TUC conference. 7 comments edit related share plime.comA motion will demand instead that female workers should be free to wear flat shoes if they prefer. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago |
It may only be small. But, as the picture shows, what this grass snake lacks in size it more than makes up for in ambition. It has taken to eating goldfish more than ten times the size of his head after discovering them in Valerie and Raymond Bell's pond. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
Archaeologists have unearthed a hoard of ancient Roman treasures, including a marble head of the Roman emperor Titus, during an excavation outside the southern Italian city of Naples. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
The young philly got stuck when she wedged her head between separate sections of the trunk. picked by suebe 1 year ago 10 comments edit related share weird |
Lin Zongxiu, from the southwestern province of Sichuan had heard that soup made with a man's head could help cure her daughter who had suffered from psychiatric problems for years. picked by kakana 5 months ago 10 comments edit related share weird |
Should the income tax system include a tax credit for short taxpayers and a tax surcharge for tall ones? This column explains how the standard utilitarian framework for tax policy analysis says that individual attributes correlated with wages, such as height, should determine tax liabilities. Taller individuals should pay higher taxes. picked by 2manyusernames 5 months ago 4 comments edit related share plime.com |