From:	Gorbi gbmaill@***.de
Subject:	Hairy tales
Date:	Sun, 29 Aug 1999 17:46:45 +0200

Hello!

I want to make up a piece of cyber/bioware that will cost many jobs in the
haircutting industry: A skin implant that can grow hair of any color and
thickness very, very fast.

Here is how it works:
The basis is a network of very small pipes and tubes with approx. 130,000
"ports" (That's the number of hair the average person has on his head).
These ports have specialized cells around them which grow the artificial
hair (some proteine chain). The required amino acids (and CMYK colors) are
carried in the network. Finally the network is covered with vat-grown skin.
Now the best part: each port can be regulated individually by an implanted
cyber controller. So it's possible to grow any haircut, any color, any
thickness, yes, even small pictures on the head! I could even imagine some
cells that produce hair gel so you can grow a huge irokese brush! And the
controller can tell the cells to produce a special solvent that makes you
bald in twenty minutes.
What do you think?

Now some questions:
What would be the essence cost / body index (since the device has biware and
cyberware parts)?
How fast could the hair grow? Or in general: how fast can cells produce
proteins?
What would be a cool name for it?
Waht would be the acceptance? Would people implant such a device?


Gorbi