Are mobile phone implants (tooth or brain) feasible, or even ethically acceptable?

Nowadays there is no speculation over such technology, other than fiction and entertainment shows (for instance, a cell phone implat was used by a main character in a hypothetical future episode of "Nip/Tuck"). In 2002 designers at the Royal College of Art in London made headlines after coming up with the world's first cell-phone implant. Their design involved a small chip that housed a receiver and a transducer. The receiver could pick up mobile phone signals, and the transducer could translate them into vibrations, implanted in a person's molar cap. However the entire article was later revealed to be a hoax, since the students only came up with a conceptual idea, yet published an article on a functional prototype in par with April fool's day. Still, a pulse activated, sensor-receiver technology similar to the one used by Apple and NIKE in creating the "iPod nano sports kit" could be a means to achieve such a piece of gadgetry.

===Sources===
1)http://www.howstuffworks.com/cell-phone-implant.htm/printable
2)http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/nike-ipod.htm

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