But there is one thing that remains Wiens' signature from before the accident: his goatee.
The first thing Wiens could smell was lasagna at the hospital, which smelled "delicious, " he said.
It turns out that the donor's face, now part of Wiens' own, can grow hair.
Unfortunately for one little iPad 2 there will be no escape next week from Kyle Wiens.
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Janis and colleagues expect Wiens to get home soon and will be continuing to follow his progress.
But iFixit's Kyle Wiens admits there is at least one selfish motive for breaking apart that iPhone.
The skeleton of Wiens' head is his own and creates a unique face in combination with the donor's features.
In a 15-hour procedure in mid-March, doctors gave Wiens a donor forehead, nasal structure, nose, lips and facial skin.
They also transplanted underlying muscles and nerves that will allow Wiens to have sensation and movement in his face.
For Wiens, support for products like this encourage the disposability of high-end electronics.
People say Apple is integrated because it designs its own processors, Wiens notes.
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Equipped with these guides, savvy consumers should be able to fix their iPads at home, says iFixit co-founder Kyle Wiens.
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Wiens will be able to use an electron microscope to look at the characteristics of how the silicon is constructed.
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Wiens plans to go back to Texas and "spend time with my family and continue on with my life, " he said.
To solve that problem, iFixit has commissioned replacement tabs and will include them with any iPad part it sells, says Wiens.
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In a 15-hour procedure, doctors used donated tissue to give Wiens a donor forehead, nasal structure, nose, lips and facial skin.
So does Wiens ever feel bad about damaging such beautiful new gadgets?
Mr. KYLE WIENS (CEO, iFixit): We sent somebody to the East Coast.
The face, spanning from the mid-scalp down to the neck, does not look like Wiens' own face or that of its original owner.
There's one other patient in line for a face transplant through the same Department of Defense grant that funded Wiens' procedure, Janis said.
Kyle Wiens at iFixit and Wired took apart the new Macbook Pro the other day, and he was dismayed by what he saw.
Wiens, 27, was injured in 2008 when he was volunteering at his church and his head got too close to a high-voltage power line.
His hardest adjustment has been the loss of eyesight, "not because I'm blind but because I had to adapt my entire life around that, " Wiens.
On the foundation's website, she described her growing romance with Wiens.
Even the hair on Wiens' head, from the mid-scalp area, is part of the donor skin (the hair on the back of Wiens' head is his own).
Wiens notes that the glass in the iPad is a little thicker (1.18 mm) than that in the iPhone (1.02 mm), making it more resistant to breakage.
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Even though the procedure was relatively pioneering -- few such transplants have been done throughout in the world -- Wiens didn't hesitate to agree to it, Janis said.
"We do see these big variations in the temperature in the mantle across parts of Antarctica that will have a big effect on the ice sheet, " Wiens said.
In the next six to nine months, Wiens will start to be able to feel light touch on his face and to move his face and lips, Pomahac said.
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