Eyeball Jewelry
The newest fashion craze has been unleashed upon the world, starting in Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Eyeball Jewelry. Tiny pieces of specially made metal, in various shapes, can actually be surgicly implanted in the “interpalpebral conjunctiva” of a persons eyeball (the white part). Yahoo has photos of two different women who have had the proceedure done, and the Netherlands Institute for Innovative Ocular Surgery which is pioneering the procedure has a third picture. (I’m not sure if it’s one of the same women)
My challenge to the lies.com army: Find More Pictures. I mean, come on!, the Institue says they have made all different shapped implants, but all three pictures are of hearts — where/who are the other 4 people who have had this proceedure done?
April 27th, 2004 at 12:53 pm
Isn’t it interesting that the same person’s name and address is listed at both the Institute http://www.niioc.nl and the product maker http://www.hippocratech.com?
It looks to me like a piece of confetti stuck in a girl’s eye.
June 9th, 2004 at 5:19 pm
http://www.bmezine.com/news/pubring/20040601.html
Star shaped plus the procedure right there for ya :P You just haven’t searched far.
June 9th, 2004 at 5:35 pm
thanks for the link Becca … but give me some credit, that story wasn’t published untill June 2004 … I was looking for info back in April. :)
June 10th, 2004 at 3:48 am
^_^ SOrry I didn’t look at the dates, tut tut the one time I don’t do it is the one time I need to =)
September 8th, 2004 at 10:50 am
FYI: Eyeball Jewelry has made it to the US. The LA Times has a reg-mandatory article that goes into some depth about the first person in the US to recieve an implant, Island Allman.
A shorter article with video is available from NBC without giving up your first born.