Medical student surgically implants Bluetooth into own ear to cheat in final
I&#x27;m extremely skeptical of this story, at least as written.<p>It makes great clickbait, but it doesn&#x27;t really make sense. <i>Where</i> would someone implant a bluetooth earpiece into their ear? There&#x27;s not really a lot of empty space in that area unless someone is very overweight and the device is implanted in layers of fat adjacent to the ear, which aren&#x27;t great at conducting sound. Did someone really wrap an earpiece in some bio-compatible material, put it in someone right before the test (battery life is limited), and that person was then in a low enough level of pain and&#x2F;or on enough painkillers that they could still complete the test? I&#x27;m extremely doubtful.<p>But the bigger question is: What use is a 1-way communication device? Did the student have a second cheating instrument to photograph the test and send it to someone off-site? Or did they have someone with the test answers reading them off in real-time (&quot;Question 34 - Answer is C&quot;)? It seems this would only be useful in an extremely narrow set of circumstances, if it could be pulled off at all.<p>Really though, why wouldn&#x27;t someone just grow out their hair or wear a wig and put an earpiece under their hair? The idea of surgically implanting something that could be easily concealed seems like a modern urban legend.