Back from Gainesville, where Shelly is moving next week. We hosted a three-day housewarming party in her new, and still largely bare, apartment. The group sex was a nice touch; I think that’s an excellent way to warm a house.
I finally met Shelly’s new sweetie, and Shelly and I met his other sweeties, which was all good. We took a brief tour of the UF campus with datan0de and femetal, UF graduates the both of them, and played with all the exhibits in the physics building.
I also came back with an injury, which I lay firmly at smoocherie‘s feet. A poi-spinning injury, to be more specific. She has me hooked.
But by far the coolest thing to come out of the weekend was information about a very simple procedure which can give a person a sixth sense, courtesy of Shelly’s new sweetie, who works with giant magnets every day.
I can not express how badly I want this done.
Seriously. The English language does not have the words that can adequately convey how much I want this.
The idea is very simple. An incision is cut in the tip of a finger, and a tiny sliver of magnetized iron [Edit: actually, niobium] encased in silicone is inserted in the slit. The slit is then stitched up around it.
Result: You now have the ability to feel magnetic fields. The handful of people who have done this report they can feel whether or not an electrical wire is live, and even tell that a hard drive is about to fail. They can feel the magnetic field of a transformer on a pole or of a cell phone about to ring, and can sense the field coming from the anti-shoplifting device at a grocery store.
This. Is. So. Fucking. Cool.
Ten minutes, one stitch, and you go from having five senses to having six. Just like that. No shit, if I thought I could do it safely, I’d be tempted to do it to myself. I can not imagine anything more cool, short of, say, having the full-on cyborg gear from The Ghost in the Shell.
And it’s so easy to do. It kind of surprises me that more people don’t want it done.
This brings som very interesting thoughts to mind..
This brings som very interesting thoughts to mind..
I’m kinda stunned that the article managed to stay off your radar for so long. If I’d suspected, I’d have brought it to your attention. I, too, would love to do this.
As for “more cool” — well, that’ll have to wait until I can get a scrolling buffer that can dump video and/or audio from the last 10 minutes to a chip. Too often I think “Oh, that would’ve been an awesome photo” just after the opportunity disappears.
I’m kinda stunned that the article managed to stay off your radar for so long. If I’d suspected, I’d have brought it to your attention. I, too, would love to do this.
As for “more cool” — well, that’ll have to wait until I can get a scrolling buffer that can dump video and/or audio from the last 10 minutes to a chip. Too often I think “Oh, that would’ve been an awesome photo” just after the opportunity disappears.
It kind of surprises me that more people don’t want it done.
Not many people know about it, even fewer people can perform the procedure, and it’s a fairly “back alley” sort of modification. Doctors won’t touch this kind of experimental elective body modification (which is a shame), and the people who are willing to do it don’t have access to full medical facilities, or even anesthetic. Also, how well it works for any particular individual is kind of hit or miss at this point.
So, you have people who technically aren’t qualified or fully equipped performing a painful experimental procedure that has a shaky success rate with unknown long term effects that results in minor but noticeable scarring and would need to be removed anyway if you ever had to have an MRI.
Sign me up too. I’ve played too much Cyberpunk 2020 to not agree that this is the coolest mod ever. 🙂
It kind of surprises me that more people don’t want it done.
Not many people know about it, even fewer people can perform the procedure, and it’s a fairly “back alley” sort of modification. Doctors won’t touch this kind of experimental elective body modification (which is a shame), and the people who are willing to do it don’t have access to full medical facilities, or even anesthetic. Also, how well it works for any particular individual is kind of hit or miss at this point.
So, you have people who technically aren’t qualified or fully equipped performing a painful experimental procedure that has a shaky success rate with unknown long term effects that results in minor but noticeable scarring and would need to be removed anyway if you ever had to have an MRI.
Sign me up too. I’ve played too much Cyberpunk 2020 to not agree that this is the coolest mod ever. 🙂
It kind of surprises me that more people don’t want it done.
Well, there is this, from one of the first people to get it done, and who, as the editor of BMEZINE, is certainly about as pro-bodymod as you can get:
http://www.bmezine.com:8000/news/pubring/20060401.html
The fact is, this procedure, the placement, the magnets themselves, and their coatings, are all just a little too experimental for most of us. And speaking as a piano player, I for one am not willing to f*ck up my fingertips to be a beta tester for this, and I’ll bet fingertips are too important for others as well.
However, once they work it out, tho, oh yeah – sign me up! And hats off to the bodymod folks who are willing to put themselves on the line for this.
It kind of surprises me that more people don’t want it done.
Well, there is this, from one of the first people to get it done, and who, as the editor of BMEZINE, is certainly about as pro-bodymod as you can get:
http://www.bmezine.com:8000/news/pubring/20060401.html
The fact is, this procedure, the placement, the magnets themselves, and their coatings, are all just a little too experimental for most of us. And speaking as a piano player, I for one am not willing to f*ck up my fingertips to be a beta tester for this, and I’ll bet fingertips are too important for others as well.
However, once they work it out, tho, oh yeah – sign me up! And hats off to the bodymod folks who are willing to put themselves on the line for this.
Sounds cool enough, but I am way too chicken! Owie….
Sounds cool enough, but I am way too chicken! Owie….
Group sex is always a great way to warm or break in ANYTHING
Group sex is always a great way to warm or break in ANYTHING
to feel magnetic fields
I have had some kind of parasitic infection for the past six years that enables me to “feel” magnetic fields. It’s a fibrous batch of what I believe is some kind of fungus wrapped around my right index finger and across the back of my right hand.
This “stuff” tugs and pulls on my finger and knuckle almost constantly. It sort of feels like a bunch of rubber bands individually squirming The sensation is greatly stimulated by magnetic fields.
I first remember noticing this while reaching around the back of my computer to adjust a wireless “G” antenna. So it’s RF radiation as well as static fields.
I ran an exact word search for “the ability to feel magnetic fields” to get here. Has anyone ever heard of this?
to feel magnetic fields
I have had some kind of parasitic infection for the past six years that enables me to “feel” magnetic fields. It’s a fibrous batch of what I believe is some kind of fungus wrapped around my right index finger and across the back of my right hand.
This “stuff” tugs and pulls on my finger and knuckle almost constantly. It sort of feels like a bunch of rubber bands individually squirming The sensation is greatly stimulated by magnetic fields.
I first remember noticing this while reaching around the back of my computer to adjust a wireless “G” antenna. So it’s RF radiation as well as static fields.
I ran an exact word search for “the ability to feel magnetic fields” to get here. Has anyone ever heard of this?