Please help me identify this object in this picture

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Also, and perhaps most importantly, this is a receiver, not a transmitter.

Well, yeah, if it's just a receiver then perhaps. I was keying on "earbuds that the secret service wears", which, I believe, is a transceiver.

Why dont you start with what you know is possible. Here is a Cochlear ear implant. Look at the size of the thing. There is the implant, the smaller portion, and the microphone/transmitter part that stays outside the skin to transmit signal and power. Notice the large coils used to induce the power through the skin, 1 each on inner and outer device.
http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2011/06/02/1226068/175412-cochlear-implant.jpg
Even if you found a way to eliminate those coils and the need for the power transfer the resulting device would be huge compared to what is being suggested. Remember there is a lot of incentive to reduce the size of this device.

So I guess what everyone is saying is that the verdict is it can't be ruled out that the device is not an implantable micro electrode for the ear canal, but it is not probable.

What if I said I have a boatload of empirical evidence that these things are in someone's ears, with people in the know demonstrating all sorts of crazy things to them in person that you would have to say God would be the only other explanation.

Well Jason, as you have brought the subject up, I can certainly confirm to you that God exists and that He answers prayer, even sometimes in ways that you would have to call miraculous.

I became a Christian through being totally skeptical, refusing to believe anyone but God Himself, carefully checking out the facts by reading the Gospels in prayer, and by discovering that Jesus' teaching actually works when it is put into practice.

Most people are so put off by the hypocrisy of denominational religion that they don't bother to experimentally check out the facts of the Gospel for themselves.

But I did check out Jesus' teaching, and it proves to be true. So please don't use God as the butt of foolish humour.

Thanks for listening.

Thanks for the information about Jesus, but it wasn't meant to be foolish humor in the slightest way. My point is that the demonstrations would appear to be like magic--like something only God could do based on what we know about technology.

My oh my, what a handsome creature !

His extravagant beauty is scarcely surpassed even by the loveliness I see in my bathroom mirror first thing every morning.