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Body-Hack Provides A Magnetic Sixth Sense

June 15th, 2006

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before… (as the old joke goes). We’re a little behind this week (see previous post What to do if You Are In a Car Crash), but Wired reports (along with everyone else at this point - hat tip to BoingBoing- that some folks are getting magnets surgically embedded in their fingertips and developing a sixth, electro-magnetic sense.

The new sense apparently allows the implantees to sense proximity to electrical fields and magnetic sources.

From the article:

“Body-mod artists Jesse Jarrell and Steve Haworth’s original idea was to implant a magnet to carry metal gadgets. It turns out that doesn’t work: If you try to carry something magnetic on your implant regularly, the pinched skin between the magnets dies and your body rejects the implant. But they came up with a new application when a mutual friend suffered an accident that left a shard of iron in his finger. He worked with audio equipment, and found that he could tell which speakers were magnetized from the sensation that passed through his finger at close range.”

Read more:
A Sixth Sense for a Wired World [Wired]

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