Implanted Magnets
June 7th, 2006 by PotatoHere’s an interesting story about implanting magnets beneath the skin to give someone a magnetic sense. It dovetails nicely with what we’ve been talking about at work recently. I’ll just leave you with that for now, and come back to comment on it a little later.
Ooh, another good read. I love the line “What started strictly as a desire to play with some expensive equipment…” so true.
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June 8th, 2006 at 9:08 pm
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June 9th, 2006 at 5:15 pm
The implant one sounded about right — an implanted magnet should vibrate under the skin near power lines which you can feel as a buzz. It’s part of how we think biological magnetite might work for magnetoreception: it might simply buzz and then be picked up by mechanosensors. A static field might put a constant strain on it which could be picked up by proprioceptors. But I wonder how people performing illegal surgeries on one another can’t come up with anything better than ice for the procedure. They don’t have any morphine left over from a real procedure? Heck, a trip to their local high school might have got them some heroin. Nonetheless, I was impressed by the simplicity and elegance of their sixth sense.