Here's an appealing thought: an mp3 breast implant which will allow surgically-enhanced girls to store and play back their entire music collections from their 36DD assets.

We kid you not. According to UK tabloid the Sun - ever watchful for life-enhancing technology, especially when it's got a big jubs angle - BT Laboratories bod Ian Pearson reckons breast implants may as well do something useful if they're to be permanently installed, rather than just looking decorative.

Accordingly, he's proposed sticking an mp3 player in one dug, and a storage chip in the other. Quite how playback is achieved we're not quite sure*, but it may well involve the listener burying his or her head in the cleavage for a full stereo effect.

Likewise, God alone knows how you select tracks, but breasts do come equipped with a pleasing alternative to the iPod's selector wheel. We can imagine the scenario: Girlfriend: "Oi, what the bloody hell are you doing?" Boyfriend: "Hold on, I'm just scrolling down to Stairway to Heaven." ®

Bootnote

*Oh, OK then - Ian Pearson said "flexible plastic electronics would sit inside the breast. A signal would be relayed to headphones, while the device would be controlled by Bluetooth using a panel on the wrist". We prefer our solutions, naturally.

Related stories

UK firm 'recalls' 575 knee implants (27 November 2007)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/27/knee_implants/
Outrage over 'sponsor a boob job' website (15 June 2007)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/15/augmentation_site_outrage/
US may lift ban on silicone Bulgarian airbags (7 November 2006)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/07/silicone_bulgarian_airbags/
German police hunt runaway breast implant patient (5 October 2006)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/05/implant_dragnet/
Breast implants save car-crash Bulgarian (3 October 2006)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/03/bulgarian_airbags/
Click here to learn the net's true purpose (10 March 2006)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/10/bounceometer/
Stripper flogs breast implant on eBay (3 March 2005)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/03/breast_implant_auction/
Jubologist links breast type to personality (25 February 2005)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/25/breast_shape/
Boffin hits it big with breast-enlarging ringtone (24 September 2004)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/24/breast_enlarging_ringtone/