This is one of a multi part post I was going to write yesterday on 6/6/06. The rest are soon to follow.
What if, seconds before your laptop began stalling, you could feel the hard drive spin up under the load? Or you could tell if an electrical cord was live before you touched it? For the few people who have rare earth magnets implanted in their fingers, these are among the reported effects — a finger that feels electromagnetic fields along with the normal sense of touch.
A Wired News article by Quinn Norton.
Any of you guys ready to give this a shot?!
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June 7th, 2006 at 7:06 pm
Are you a frackin’ Cylon?
June 7th, 2006 at 8:18 pm
Yeah, I saw this earlier today. It’s all well and good until this guy walks next to an active MRI, and the magnet is ripped right out of his skin. No good.
Otherwise, though, very cool.
June 7th, 2006 at 8:33 pm
Ah… but you could probably SENSE the MRI from a few blocks away! ;)
June 8th, 2006 at 7:40 am
You would be no use with a compass.
June 8th, 2006 at 8:16 am
Maybe Pablo should get this. Then we can carry him around in a tub of water and he could be our compass.
June 8th, 2006 at 9:43 pm
hehehehe!!! i am picturing it now, it’s too funny!! :)