Shawn Sarver took a deep breath and stared at the bottle of Listerine on the counter. “A minty fresh feeling for your mouth... cures bad breath,” he repeated to himself, as the scalpel sliced open his ring finger. His left arm was stretched out on the operating table, his sleeve rolled up past the elbow, revealing his first tattoo, the Air Force insignia he got at age 18, a few weeks after graduating from high school. Sarver was trying a technique he learned in the military to block out the pain, since it was illegal to administer anesthetic for his procedure.
Was it on Hubski that I saw the article about the implanting magnets into fingers? Did I submit that? It was a whole ago but fascinating stuff.
Edit. Yup. I'm have a surprisingly good memory sometimes. http://hubski.com/pub?id=23087
This is a very interesting movement, but these guys seem to like to phrase stuff for effect. If I was putting magnets in my friend's fingers, I wouldn't call myself a "grinder".
I think an RFID chip could be the most useful everyday implant currently. However, only if it and the hardware it interacted with was made by yourself.
I can imagine a day where the radicals are the people cutting implants out of themselves.
As an aside, this struck me as odd:
- I point out that Steve Jobs may have died in large part because he was reluctant to get surgery, afraid that if doctors opened him up, they might not be able to put him back together good as new.
Jobs took someone else's liver to survive.
Cool post. Serious question, "would you put a magnet in your finger"? I'm curious as to the real advantage, aside from a really cool party trick, can you really sense magnetic fields?
I have read about this. You really can sense magnetic fields, and especially, you can detect current flowing through wires - it creates a vibration in the magnet which you can easily feel.
What would this new "evolution" give yo though? I can see implanting something useful, but how is this useful beyond being a novelty?
For an electrician, it is useful to know if there is current flowing in a wire. Beyond that, other than the novelty factor, I don't see much.
Here's a Wired article about it : http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mods/news/2006/06/71087?current...
I've thought about trying this, but using super-glue to attach a small magnet to a fingernail instead - it wouldn't last as long (couple of weeks maybe), but it should be easier to feel the vibrations, as opposed to a ring.
Maybe. However, if you are feeling vibrations, that means you are in an oscillating magnetic field. I'd bet that you could feel the ring buzz. Touching my fingernail, and touching the skin where my ring goes, I think I might sense more easily with a ring. A tongue post is another option. :)
Found this on Wikipedia:
- Neodymium metal dust is a combustion and explosion hazard. Neodymium compounds, as with all rare earth metals, are of low to moderate toxicity; however its toxicity has not been thoroughly investigated. Neodymium dust and salts are very irritating to the eyes and mucous membranes, and moderately irritating to skin. Breathing the dust can cause lung embolisms, and accumulated exposure damages the liver. Neodymium also acts as an anticoagulant, especially when given intravenously.[7]
Neodymium magnets have been tested for medical uses such as magnetic braces and bone repair, but biocompatibility issues have prevented widespread application.
Cheap! I think I am going to get one and test it out:
I believe the movement of your own body is enough - the magnetic field itself need not be oscillating, to be detected (although an oscillating magnetic field would induce a lot more motion in the magnet). But I'm just speculating, have not tried anything yet.