Re:When man meets metal: rise of the transhumans
by myrandomcomment on Monday October 30, 2017 @09:24PM
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I keep thinking that the magnet in the finger would be a fun thing to try out. Something that is pretty safe and reversible. Am I crazy?
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Re:When man meets metal: rise of the transhumans
by tmearnest on Monday October 30, 2017 @09:28PM
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Maybe a little. I've always wanted to try it out too. One of the really cool things about it is that it imparts a sort of sense of magnetic fields. If you have a magnet implanted in your finger, you can feel it vibrating in response to AC currents.
Unfortunately the magnets can break and spill out of their plastic encasement. One of the reasons I haven't tried it out yet.
Re:When man meets metal: rise of the transhumans
by maneesh on Monday October 30, 2017 @09:43PM
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I wear a Pavlok wearable with a magnetic milanese strap, and it has a really cool ability to make me feel metallicized obejcts and AC with high current. Like a first step to an implant.
Re:When man meets metal: rise of the transhumans
by Epholys on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @04:12AM
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I'm also fascinated by this, so I did some research. Here's a pastebin with the most important links I found : https://pastebin.com/XPcbrANV (the description of the links are in french but the webpages are in english).
Re:When man meets metal: rise of the transhumans
by teddythetwig on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @08:26AM
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I've had one for the past four years now. I'm an active climber and sailor, and never once has it interfered in my day to day life. The benefits include being able to sort of feel your way around the equipotential lines of an alternating magnetic field. The worst thing that has happened to me was about two weeks into having the implant, I brought my finger to close to a strong magnet used in a menu to stick it to the wall. The magnet in my finger(which is shaped like a small tic-tac) did a 180 under my skin. Ouch.
Re:When man meets metal: rise of the transhumans
by kobeya on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @01:00AM
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Yes. Most people who have done the magnet in the finger rate the experience as "meh, wouldn't do again."
Re:When man meets metal: rise of the transhumans
by triplesec on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @08:55AM
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Why do you say that? I have several friends who found it a great thing, though as people they are definitely outliers, and I haven't asked them again in a couple of years.
Re:When man meets metal: rise of the transhumans
by kobeya on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @01:59PM
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There was an article on HN some months back where hey followed up with one of the main body mod professional to do this work. He reported that most of his business now is people requesting them taken out, and that new installs have precipitously declined. It then went on to interview many people that had such a modification and what they felt about it.
Re:When man meets metal: rise of the transhumans
by teddythetwig on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @08:31AM
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I quite enjoy the experience.
Re:When man meets metal: rise of the transhumans
by sporkologist on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @05:43AM
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Be sure to tell your doctor if you get an MRI
Re:When man meets metal: rise of the transhumans
by lxmorj on Monday October 30, 2017 @09:40PM
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IDK. Start with a ring with a magnet on it?
Re:When man meets metal: rise of the transhumans
by teddythetwig on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @08:33AM
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The trick is that when the magnet vibrates, it stimulates the same nerve endings that are picking up the vibration of your fingerprint ridges rubbing over something. After a little integration period, the sensation is similar to a very light touch running over the fingertip. I don't know if a ring would produce the same sensation.
Re:When man meets metal: rise of the transhumans
by beobab on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @05:12AM
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Or gloves with magnets in the fingertips?
Re:When man meets metal: rise of the transhumans
by rusk on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @05:23AM
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Right up until you can't get into your hotel room 'cause you've wiped your swipe-card.
Re:When man meets metal: rise of the transhumans
by teddythetwig on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @08:36AM
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Been there :/ I'm not sure what it is, but it seems like hotel keycards are quite low quality devices, because it doesn't happen with credit cards.
Re:When man meets metal: rise of the transhumans
by rusk on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @08:51AM
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Credit-card is imprinted once for all time; a hotel room key may be imprinted at any time, for each time a guest needs a new key. Presumably the "Read Only" vs "Read/Write" nature of these usecases confers a particular amount of robustness on the former.