In doing the extended body project I wanted to enhance my body technologically in a more practical way. What better way to do so then through music. In today's world the music we love is free flowing through the Internet, so I chose an iPod to gather endless amounts of music. As we know the iPod's capabilities are limited by how the products software is designed. The software routes the product holders' to iTunes to purchase and download music, or upload CD's into an iTunes library. In using this process the user is allowed to utilize as much music as he can purchase monetarily. I decided that embedding the iPod's already patient characteristics of music, media, and photography into my face, while creating a direct up-link to the internet using my brain would give me infinite amounts of storage capacity and dissolve the need to purchase music.
In order to purchase one of these new and improved iPods one can go into a normal retail store where the device is distributed. However, to control its amazing capabilities everyone must download updates that make the feature more aesthetically pleasing since the technology is located outside the body.
Lastly, upon purchasing the items one must undergo a painful tattooing process that permanently embeds the technology into a persons place of choice on the body. The place chosen on the body must be constantly exposed. I chose the left side of my cheek because it gives me the fastest uploading access to the Internet, making the body at one with technology and gives a person easier control as well as protection against consumerism.
