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ApharmdB writes "The BBC has a story about the possibility of performing face transplants within the year. Obviously, people are worried about the ethical ramifications, but would someone with your transplanted face actually look like you? Either way, everyone better be careful, or Nicolas Cage may try to steal their family."
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How could you mention the old movie face-off when the newest James Bond has the new tech of using DNA injections to change your face?!?!
It took a long time to mold my nose into the shape of my boss's rectum.
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Now that we have that nice IE skin for Mozilla. Do you know of any Bill skin for download?
Yes, my dad is uglier.
Travolta's the thief! Cage is a good guy.
Heh heh, some things are so predictable. I would have known that even not having seen the movie.
He can _have_ my family, especially for thanksgiving. I don't know if it's because grandpa stopped wearing pants or uncle ed gets loopy on pernod, but holidays just aren't what they used to be.
Maybe if they're lucky he'll bring those tripped-out alka-seltzer tablets that did him right in the movie.
bleh.
How about modular faces you can switch out at will?
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Tom Cruise on Monday...
Brad Pitt on Tuesday...
Weird Al on Wednsday...
Ebay won't let you sell body parts, but maybe you can sell your face on uBid
Contact Me (got tired of viruses emailing me).
Uh... well, I don't know where Michael Jackson got his face from, but the nose is obviously from another planet.
In Soviet Russia, Jesus asks: "What Would You Do?"
was the tragically unsuccessful guinea pig for most of this experimentation? It would explain so much. Trying to give that poor man the face of some long dead woman.
Inside a dark room, the man who calls himself Linux Torvalds awakes.
Linus: What...what has happened to me?
Stands up, groggily making his way to the mirror - but what looks back at him isn't his face, it's...Steve Balmer!
Linus: Nooooooo!
Meanwhile, thousands of miles away at Linuxworld....
Hacker (in crowd): Hey, is it just me, but did Linus gain like 300 pounds?
Hacker2: Totally. The guy needs to go back on his mac n' cheese diet.
On the stage, a man who's face looks like Linus's is jumping about the stage, clapping his hands.
Steve: Developers, developers, developers....!
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Due to the fact that parents are now 34% more likely to have ugly children, I fully support this. (If that statistic sounds wrong, it's because I made it up).
I wrote an editorial on a topic similar to this right here. It makes a strong case for the right to choose what humans should look like. (Note to those with no sense of humor: Clicking this link will ruin your day).
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or WAS HE?!
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Imagine your body deciding to reject the transplant, on the bus to work, in the morning....
Most people would try to hold the face on with one hand and grope for the cell phone to call up a doctor. The typical Slashdot reader would stand up and bellow something about stealing souls.
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This would go great in conjunction with growing human organs and tissue from human DNA.
Imagine having a backup of your own face, just in case you get into a facially disfiguring accident. Instantly, you have your "old" face back.
Travolta was the hero, the FBI agent. Cage was the villianous terrorist. But they switched faces. So Cage, wearing Travolta's face, tried to steal Travolta's life/family. Travolta, wearing Cage's face, was the good guy.
Imagine if you got a facetransplant from somebody you and your friends knew... then you'd have to change your name because people would recognize you as "Bill" instead of who you really are. Or if you are really good you could hook up with "Bill's" exgirlfriend saying that you really didn't die, just staged your death.
those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. -isaac asimov
that one should forward to one's spouse...
I want to look like the current sitting president.
Try to make money on talk shows and such.
The insurance claims start rolling in for the "facially challenged"...
Seriously though. This seems to take plastic surgery to an entirely new level. If my old face was destroyed in an accident, I might think for a few moments about getting Mel Gibson's face as a bolt-on.
Of course, without quite a few hours on the treadmill it's not exactly going to have the desired effect, but doesn't this open up a Pandora's Box for copyright issues...
If your bitterest enemies are people who hack the heads off civilians, then I would say you're doing something right.
I have to think it would be pretty ugly if the recipient rejected the transplant. If that happened, what could be done? With what remained of your original face gone, you'd be left with a collection of grafts and prostheses. I wouldn't take that chance. I certainly wouldn't take the chance for aesthetic reasons.
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Jesus, I would think the face/off wasn't that complicated. But now, you're the second in this topic, who shows that he didn't understand...
...for all you ugly slashdotters out there! a tummy tuck and a new face! wooloohoo!
His acting, expression and everything in this scene is just priceless :-)
but I don't know anyone who wants to look like me, including me! So, I doubt my puss will be stolen any time soon.
If a generic face were available as a "loaner", could we go in, have our faces removed, and get them "serviced" to be younger. then after a few weeks/months/years of work, could it be put back on with 15 years taken off?
Disturbingly enough I find the options here to be limitless.
From the article:
So what happens if your body rejects your face?!?
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it's the bone that shapes your face for the most part. That's why they can make those clay facial recreations when they find an unidentified skeleton. And that's also why Face/Off was so ridiculous...
I can see rich phuck suing some poor people that have similar faces for face squating.
"They are devaluing my face! I want them to have those faces REMOVED NOW!"
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There are a couple issues that come to mind rather quickly--
The first being that I believe they may be able to start trying to do this in a year but it would take time to get it to work. And I would hate to see what the failures will look like. I would think that rejection would be a major issue. And the bottom line is they've never done this before- there will be bugs to work out.
The second- is what if they could do the whole deal perfectly? What if you could have some dead persons face?
I picture someone walking in a mall and they see their son who committed suicide a bit back walking by. Or bumping into a lost spouse.
This is a much less than ideal solution. I'm not saying they shouldn't do it- but it does need to be really thought out.
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It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
I think this face transplanting has been going on for quite some time. Why, as a student I would go out to a bar and go home with a beautiful stunner. But, next day her face had been 'transplanted' leaving the stunner with the face of a munter. ;-)
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There's hope for Michael Jackson's face even still...
Take that biometrics!
The article said 120 people were surveyed and asked whether they would allow their own face to be used for a transplant after they died. All 120 said they would not allow it.
WTF?! I think it is disgusting that people would not allow this to happen, or even that they would not allow their own faces to be used. What are they, superstitious? WHat idiots....
I would GLADLY allow my face to be used after my death, except for the fact that my entire head will be resting in a liquid-nitrogen filled dewar soon after my death.
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Eddie Murphy did an SNL skit on face transplants that was pretty funny. IIRC, it was like a pitch to encourage people to donate their face, and they had an interview with a white woman who had received a black face. It was a riot at the time... not sure how well it would hold up.
OK, so science fiction becomes real life alot; but Eddie Murphy jokes? Too unreal.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
"Swallow your soul!"
I'd suggest you don't use Slashdot as your only news source, or you will suffer permanent brain damage.
Perhaps Tom Cruise would like a face transplant... He has worn a mask in four recent movies -- Mission Impossible, Minority Report, Eyes Wide Shut, and Vanilla Sky. Something out of the ordinary is afoot...
Seriously though, I think this will be a great breakthrough for people with facial scarring that is not reparable by conventional means.
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"Travolta wearing Cage's face" was played by actor *Cage*. They didn't use Travolta plus special effects.
but your linked article was about as funny as hammered shit...
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It's not as much about the skin, fat, and muscle on your face as much as it is how the bones shape the face. The size of your nose comes from that piece of cartilidge. Cheekbones, size of head, location and depth of eyes, jawline, and smile have nothing to do with what this doctor is talking about transplanting. The only unethical problem would be giving face transplants so you can look like someone else, and I'm sure some Columbian drug cartel's retained plastic surgeon can already pull that off. I don't think this is anything to worry about...yet.
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While I want my hard drive backup to be an exact copy, I'd prefer it if my face backup looked a little more like Bruce Campbell, thanks.
Freedom: "I won't!"
All these Britney and NSync, and [your list of crap boy bands here] kids going under the knife just to look like their favorite pop stars.
I wouldn't be surprised. Be prepared for the next American Idol to have 1,000 singers look like any of the before mentioned people.
People are that insane.
Heh, maybe it'll be like tatoos and people will say "it seemed like a good idea when i was 17, but now i think WTF was i thinking!"
Like Homer (after eating some cyberfudge) said once "What a horrible future we live in!"
Lisa replied: "Don't you mean present?"
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So what if your body rejects your new face? When not even you can stand your own face. Now that can't be good.
The face is probably one of the most unused body parts for organ donors, maybe now it will become a little more important.
Wonder, where the money would go to buy one of these things, since organ donation is supposed to be non-profit.
"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson
Talk about loving the Aqua skin! Now you can have Aqua Skin(TM).
I want Ron Jeremy's face!He seems to get the chicks, I assume it's just because of his darn good facial features!
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You can't get past the American paradigm of plastic surgery, where 300k breast augmentation surgeries occur each year.
There are many people in this world who cannot particpate in society becuase they are stigmatized for deformation or disfigurement.
Look at programs like operation smile where plastic surgeons go to 3rd world countries to do reconstructive surgery on children with facial deformities.
This is what facial transplants are all about.
Winamp, Mozilla, and now THIS?? You're gonna look might silly when your face doesn't match the remaining native widgets on the rest of your body.
Why?
Does the doctor come in and say, "I'm sorry, but the tests results were not good. Your face has 6 months to live. I'm truly sorry. Unless we find a donor, your face will shrivel up and die."
But where do you find a face-donor? I think I'm going to go peel that sticker off my drivers license...
Yes, it's obvious: a face transplant recipient will NOT look like the donor unless the underlying skeletal structure matches. There may be some degree of similarity between the two.
Oh, please... I'll giftwrap them even.
What I really want is to have some pockets grafted into my ass so I have someplace to put my wallet/change/keys when I'm at the nudist camp.
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Michael Jackson will have dibs on Diana Ross's face when she passes away...
Yep. I remember using some /. feature once to prune away Jon Katz crap. Time to find that feature again and add this michael boy.
Who the fuck is Michael Jackson trying to look like?
So, if this face transplant stuff works, can you make me look like Cindy Crawford? (with the exception of having my hairy legs and spare tire, of course)
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
Hey, these two guys could do with this technology - like now! I can just hear George W's speech.. "We've found that the faces of two international terrorists have been transplicated..."
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So much for facial identification technology at airports. Hell do the hands while you're at it for the finger prints, if you're not planning on living long who cares what the antirejection drugs do to you.
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I was planning on mapping my own face in case I ever needed to replace it due to some unfortunate accident (and science could manage it), but I just got a cease and desist letter from my mother. Apparently she holds the copyright. =(
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Of all the reasons to have a transplant, getting a new face might be the stupidest one I've ever heard.
Recently, doctors have begun experimental arm transplants for amputees. The first ever recipient had to have the transplanted arm removed and has said on record that if he'd known then what he knows now, he would have decided against the transplant.
In addition to the risk of rejection, there's the very real danger caused by anti-rejection drugs which suppress the immune system. Scientists believe that immune-suppressing drugs that keep transplant recipients from rejecting their new organs or other items increase their risks of dying from infection significantly. I can't remember the exact statistic, but ISTR that a transplant recipient has something like a one in ten chance of dying within 7 years. Is it worth it to risk your life over a new face? I realize that patients with severe facial damage may want to take that risk, but overall, I'd say it's not worth the risk. Transplants should be reserved for life-saving operations, otherwise the risks are too high.
I predict in the not-to-distant future, you'll be much better off ugly and rich, than beautiful and poorly protected.
Sometimes my brain scares me.
I think I'll pass on the British face transplant.
Remember the Big Book of British Smiles? Perhaps England might not be the best place to find acceptable source material for potential facial transplants.
Does England have the fashion sense to give me the face of Cage or Travolta?
Britain might have better quality control, but I suspect the most stylish faces will come from the Italian transplants.
The issue of how close you'd look to the new face, and how much you'd retain of your old is one which has been discussed regarding a procedure of this level, and while there's a lot of character in the skin tone and fat/muscle distribution, the bony underneath of your skull does hold quite a lot of your features. Surgery on transsexuals to change facial features gives some stunning results - it's playing with the features we have most of our ability to recognise - the sex of a person judged by the face. Simply changing the eyebrow ridge from male to female shaped, and chin/jaw resculpting can drastically alter features, as much as any soft tissue.
For examples, see the photos at;
authentikate.com
cinematter.com
and
genderpeace.com
all who have had this facial feminisation surgery. This is not an example of surgery to make anyone particularly attractive by changing tiny features such as nose size, or a facelift, or lip-plumping, but drastic facial reconstruction, mainly only on the bony features.
Just some info.
the article (you DID read it, didn't you) seems to indicate that it's being pursued due to the unique nature of facial tissue than about the actual structure.
For example, burn victims can have skin grafts, but skin from other areas of the body doesn't have the same properties as the skin that naturally develops on the face. Facial skin in particular has a much higher concentration of nerve endings than that on your upper back.
....what you look like now," Logan's Run.
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As everyone else already noted, you wouldn't look all that much like the person donating anyway. Your facial bone structure would largely determine what it looks like. However, it would help people with scars, or bad acne, burns, or for any other reason that the actual skin on the face is damaged. I see absolutely no ethical problem with this procedure outside of the realm of ethical concerns about transplants in general.
Gives new meaning to "Steal Your Face", eh?
Under the above statement, a picture of Michael Jackson taken that day in court.
Under the Picture: Don't let THIS happen.
If they can get this to a decent level of authenticity, this could be cool for witness protection.
Not to mention the possiblities to those who want to disappear.
I know there's a Michael Jackson joke here somewhere...
I do security
If we take this idea any further will we see scalp transplants down the line?
Hmm, who holds the copyright for my face? Me, my parents, or God? Or do we all hold copyright together? What about other members of society for various amendments and adjustments, like scars, etc?
He's at least six faces past "Phase 2".
Facial transplants could help so many, from folks who've survived car accidents to (as mentioned in one article) cancer patients to kids with birth defects. The surgery at best would provide the image of a normal, healthy, whole face, which is how we get a lot of non-verbal information from people. It's not like there would be a strong resemblence to the deceased due to differences in not only bone struction, but also in habitual expressions and personality.
There's really not much chance of any one person being able to "steal" another's family or life with this technology. The recipient would have to 1) have the same physical structure, 2) be one fantastic actor, and 3) manage to imitate body odor as well. While the third may seem trivial, there's a lot of research regarding pheromone-immune system links to mate selection. The transplanted party's significant others and pets would still recognize him or her via smell.
This has been going on for years.m l
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Will the DMCA takedown provision extended to copyrighted faces? "Rip his face off, he looks just like me". Will the megacorps be able to sneak into our houses and look at our photo albums looking for infringment? Will Al Queida develop a f2f (face to face) network to fool Tom Ridge and his merry band? Can I go faceless for halloween?
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I think it might be time for my new invention:
The DCMA razor!
Takes a picture of your face and checks it against it's database
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Removes your features if you look like Tom Cruise
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Profit!?
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You could just have a standard model, and buy the face separately.
Evil is the money of root.
They could lotto off their faces after they die! That'd be the charity benefit to top all charity benefits.
As for biometrics, unless they change the underlying bone structure, shouldn't they still work (Other than skin color of course)?
After the Lisa Maria Presley fiasco I think he is currently busy Saving Face.
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Some kid'll walk up to you and say "I see dead people!" Someone'll probably make a movie about it :)
>I picture someone walking in a mall and they see their son who committed suicide a bit back walking by.
That's easy. Public Service Ads.
"Hi! We're the band members from Nirvana, and this is our new friend Michael Jackson! We'd like to remind you that being a multi-platinum rock star sucks so fucking hard that not even a brand new face can cure that gnawing need for heroin, uh, happiness, that's deep down inside there, and you finally decide to end it all, you should be a responsible citizen! Make sure to do it right! Be like Kurt! Erase Your Face!"
Just last night, my wife was also asking me if she could get more face time. "Sure", I responded, "only if I get more head time."
Anyone more knowledgeable than me care to explain how this might affect healing? Say someone with a transplant nicked themself shaving, would it heal naturally, even though the body would see the tissue as being foreign?
Go away, or I will replace you with a very small shell script.
Insert obligitory reason for Michael Jackson having kids here.
Well, at least the media is coveing a science story about faces, not just the same old, who is going down on who stories.
Come to think of it, I could use some face time, in my lap tht is.
Actually, Nick Cage was the bad guy... its just that he was wearing Travolta's face when he came home to meet the fam.
Been a while since you've seen this cinematic masterpiece?
As the visionary he was, William Gibson described this in his novel - Mona Lisa Overdrive.
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Mona, a young girl with a murky past, is transformed to look like Angie Mitchell, simstim-star and also one of the lead characters in Count Zero. All of course in a masterly created plot which involves Mona, Angie and all of humanity.
Now, when will se that Sprawl-trilogy on the big screen
Face Off really was enjoyable. How can you go wrong with the world class acting abilities of John Travolta and Nicholas ... BWAHAHAHHAHAH!
Not even I could say *that* with a straight 'face'.
...stand up, stagger backwards, and snarl, "I must find a new host body!"
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
Visit the donor's family and right before leaving, don't forget to say "So long and thanks for all the face!"
All your FACE are belong to us.
Trust me. You can take my face if you want, but if you want to be me...well, no, you don't want to be me. Unlike other people, being me requires hell of a lot more than having my looks. You need to do stuff like code all night, run around in circles flapping your arms, eat all kinds of weird crap, not bathe very often, and also (perhaps as a result?) not get laid for months at a time.
Being me ain't easy. You've been warned.
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You mean, they haven't been able to do this since the 1940's? I thought for sure I had heard of this somewhere, though...
p.s.(no, this is not a lame face-off joke, but I doubt many people here have ever heard of "the man who looks like Boris Karloff." Oh well.)
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So if you're oriental, and still you want to look like Bruce Campbell, you're still going to have to replace your hand with a chain saw, and get a chin implant, and fight off the evil dead 3 times. This isn't going to do it alone.
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I vote we call it a FacePlant instead.
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and they talked some about the moral implications of such procedures, but I just don't get it. Think about that lady in recent anti-drunk-driving commercials - the one with her face burned beyond recognition. She is, unfortunately, not alone. Procedures such as this one could go a long way to repairing what must surely be a broken life. What we're talking about here is very complicated, drastic, and necessary. Nobody is going to have a new face put on because of a few wrinkles. Only those that truly need a new face would consider it. This is a very involved procedure and is not to be undertaken lightly.
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Stalin would have taken Lenin's face - then Khrushchov would do the same. So Lenin would live forever.
If enithin kan gow rong it whil. (Murfey)
There was a Saturday Night Live skit about this back when John Belushi was still part of the cast (that is, back when it was funny). It had Garret Morris as a football player who was the recipient of a "donor" face that allowed him to live a normal life. The catch was that he received the face of a nine-year-old white girl. There were others, but his was the main character. So really, this is just a very old idea with a new audience.
I'm glad to see that scientists have been spending my tax dollar trying to bring SNL to life. As if life weren't strange enough already.
See what happens when you pick your nose and the air-bag goes off!
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One persistent problem for Transpeople to "pass" as their inner gender is their face. Some women faces just can't "wear" a male gender. And in reverse, it can be even harder.
I guess the Transgendered community can add this to the list of expensive surgeries that can't be afforded.
Online wrestling as a trading card game? WWF With Authority.
How do the boffins know this works? Presumably they have tested it on rabbits, but they all look the same anyway.
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of course go ahead and miss the chance to hear Carmen Diaz Screaming "I Swallowed Your Cum!!..."
If the person donating or selling the face concents, and the person recieveing the face concents there are no ethical issues.
Scott.
I hope these things last more than 99 minutes
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Fit ugly people rejoice
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Time to patent your face so that nobody else can use it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Hannibal Lecter pioneer this technique in 'Silence Of The Lambs'?
Not exactly tom cruise, but here you go!
Kilroy was here!
I've already donated mine.
I was reading a couple months back that they had reconstructed the face of jesus sooo with this could some crazy preacher have someone reconstruct his face to look like jesus and run amuck. Just a thought
If I recall correctly, clowns trademark their faces, and somewhere all the registered faces are stored, painted on egg shells. If a clown wears another clown's face without permission, the law suit is over trademark violation.
Which brings up an interesting point; should actors trademark their own faces? I've heard that the actors from Cheers have already had problems with people using their likenesses without permission. The movie The Crow showed that it's possible to put an actor's face on a stunt double if there's budget for it. Having a trademark on your likeness could be an important part of acting in the future.
Of course, if Hollywood were like the music industry, the studio would want to hold the trademark. It would sure suck if you quit, but your contract said you couldn't act anymore because the producers own your face. Even worse, they keep on making movies using your face a la S1m0ne.
Pandora's box really opens up when you happen to look like Mel Gibson, and you want to go into acting, but you can't because your face infringes on his trademark. In a particularly barbaric world I could even see the ruling stipulate that if you want to act you must get a facial scar of some sort. Even in this (only semi-barbaric) world, I really don't think that I'd want, as a judge, to have to set precendent for facial infringement and how close the match needs to be to qualify. How would you even measure that?
With any luck the courts would simply throw it out, but with the amount the Studios can afford to pay their lawyers, who knows...
"Space Exploration is not endless circles in low earth orbit." -Buzz Aldrin
once, at least, most probably (unless the chick's a brain-donor - slim, but still a chance) >:>
to what you will do when the monkey wants it's arse back
Medical technology today can make substrates sculpted to pratically any shape, to be infused with cells that take over, adopt the shape and absorb the substrate.
Some guys are experimenting with "castless" fracture-healing. They inject a polymer into the damaged area (after reduction and "cleanup", I suppose) and wait until it sets. Bone cells migrate into the polymer, occupy, substitute, and the body then absorbs it. The patient could be walking normally in days instead of a month-and-a-half. Animal trials were mentioned.
If you "3dfax" a face, infuse different parts with appriopriate "-trophics" and seed each with different base cells (muscle, nerve, fat, membranes, x), and then graft the mess onto the patient...
Actually, reconstruction is just a beginning. Extension and "creative adornment" should'nt be much more difficult. Anthropomorphic - or not. Heavy-metal fans, just wait !
On the other hand, imagine Carl Sagans - millions and millions of them !
Damn Microsoft zealots changing their skin to the Luna Style. They have to be members of this network. :-P
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
If you can transplant a face, a full set of fingertips ought not to be much of a challenge.
I've seen pictures of breast implants gone wrong. This could plain be straight out of a horror movie.
"At the same time, the recipient would have to have their face, facial muscles, skin and subcutaneous fat removed."
You might wake up in some cheap hotel in a bathtub full of ice ... *insert Psycho sound effects here* ...WITH NO FACE!!!!!
Sounds like a great new Urban Myth!
Cake or Death? Cake Please!
I guess everybody here knows that 'transplanting' the SKIN of a face to another 'face' would never create what we recognize as a face.
A face is the result of the bone configuration the muscle development (depending on the gestures a person does), fat, and less important: skin.
This is why the explanation in 'face off' was not a good one.
Ok I RTFA, and they don't talk about a skin transplant, they include everything, so now let's bite:
In order for the face transplant to work, nerves that control feeling and movement would have to be attached to be successful.
RIGHT! attach nerves? it could be done but not at a detailed level, for that you would need to 'attach' axons that are in fact part of a cell. And to attach each with the one the SHOULD be.
Every 'nerve' is a pack of a LOT of axons. If this can be done I see much more important transplantations like, HAND transplants for example.
If anyone knows of this kind of transplants please tell me.
Thing is, that you wouldn't get a face, you would be getting an organic MASK. Bye bye proper face movement.
In addition, advances in suppressing the immune system's response to foreign tissue would give the procedure a better chance of success. Ah! and of course, let's not forget that transplanting you something means giving you an AIDS gift. If you don't figure it out read again the SUPPRESSING IMMUNE SYSTEM again. This is why transplants are life/death case last option.
I don't see this 'technology' coming in the next months as the article said, not at least at a desirable level.
No Sweat. It'll only be for four months before divorce proceedings sent the whole clan back.
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