This is your future, and it's happening one minute at a time

[andrewducker]

Now, apparently corneal tattooing has been around for ages, covering up scars and leucomas and other disgusting shit. But it took Shannon Larratt, of the indispensable ModBlog and the BME online community of body-modification fanciers, to ask the question – what about scleral tattooing? Well, a specialist told him that tattooing your eyeball is basically dangerous and stupid. Shannon, being Shannon, decided that this was Condition Win and set out along with two friends to get stabbed in the eyemeat.

More here.

Comments

[cybik.livejournal.com]

I regularly read the BMEzine modblog that Shannon writes and while that's pretty extreme, there are things that people do to themselves that are a lot more so. I certainly wouldn't do it myself (though the geek in me is happy at the Fremen thing), admittedly, but I think it's perfectly right for other people to be able to have it done if they so desire. I mean, hell, look at what Shannon has tattooed on himself. It's pretty icky by most people's standards.

[andrewducker]

I tend to agree. I don't feel the need to do it, but part of me is glad that people at least _can_.

After all, we'll never discover the next new cool thing without people trying 99 things that are terribly disturbing.

[cybik.livejournal.com]

I'd love to have bionic implants - like ones so I can see much better or so I can access the net or so on - but I wouldn't want to be one of the guinea pigs. I admire people who have the balls to be the first people to try something.

[andrewducker]

You may be interested to know that other people are being guinea pigs for you:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6368089.stm