Face Transplants On The Way

kwertii writes "A British surgeon claims face transplants are just a few months off. The procedure "could involve a patient being given new lips, chin, ears, nose, skin and bone from a recently deceased person." The problem? Surveys indicate that very few people are willing to donate their face. Would you?"

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Reminds me of William Gibson...

[Winterblink]

... for some reason. Some of his books, Johnny Mnemonic most notably I think, have gangs that surgically alter their faces to look like animals. For example, there was one gang that had massive fangs "installed", along with complete alternations to facial bone structure and skin. Kind of weird, hearing (the second time) about this story on Slashdot, I'm wondering if we'll ever reach the point where these kinds of alterations will get cheap enough that they could be used as Gibson wrote about.