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** It also has ram skulls in it, and a mouse has set up a little nest. The skulls seem to make it work faster, and they have no idea ''what'' the mouse is for but it stops working when they take it out.
* ''[[A Simple Survey]]'' has a short story with a grotesque form of this: technology based on organs of human beings. Examples include: frying pans with artificial skin to measure heat (preventing food from being overcooked), ladles with lips to taste their contents, and cameras that use eyeballs to focus at long distances.
* In ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Expanded Universe]] lore, there is Orbalisk armor. This Sith invention is armor made from living creatures called orbalisks. These parasitic crustaceans feed off the evil energy of beings who channel the Dark Side of the Force, making a Sith Lord a veritable banquet to them. However, two Sith Lords - Darth Bane and possibly Freedon Nadd<ref>Nadd's holocron journal showed he had researched the technique used to create the orbalisk armor, but whether he used it is not known</ref> - were able to train them in such a way that they acted as armor while using them as hosts, the hardness of their shells being such that they could even deflect lightsaber blades. Of course, this was ''very'' dangerous; not only was the wearer constantly being [[Eaten Alive]], if one of the orbalisks was killed it would poison the wearer with a toxin that would kill the user over several days, causing the victim's body to dissolve on a subatomic level. Bane was able to survive their feeding due to healing techniques applied by an accomplice, and even Bane had to construct a special helmet to prevent them from covering his face and suffocating him. Still, he was nearly invincible as a result, able to shrug off the concentrated strength of eight force pikes set to maximum with no injury to him or the armor.
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