From:	Andrew Murdoch toreador@***.bc.ca
Subject:	Hairy tales
Date:	Sun, 29 Aug 1999 09:42:50 -0700 (PDT)

While I have no input on this, it sounds similar to what a member of one
of the groups I was in had. The character was a rock musician who had a
special wig with a datajack link, through which she could control the
colour of her hair.

It became amusing when she became a sniper. My character had to phone her
while she was covering our meeting to tell her to turn off her hair, as it
turned neon orange whenever she aimed.


> 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?

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Raven
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