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Oct 14, 2024
Magnetic Implants
Some people get these tiny magnetic implants: little neodymium beads tucked into their fingertips. The idea is that in the presence of other EMFs, the fields invoke changes in the concentrations of various electrolytes in the nerves in your finger. After a while, their nerves adapt, and they start to feel things they couldn’t before: electric fields, motors spinning, even live wires humming behind a wall. It’s basically a new sense, one we engineered by accident, a kind of human magnetoreception.
Engineers who have them say it almost feels like synesthesia. Current flow stops being an abstract idea and becomes something tactile, something your body just picks up. Imagine a technician who can literally feel EM noise, or an engineer who senses a circuit’s current density the way you sense temperature.
The implant itself isn’t the point. It’s a proof of concept: human perception is more flexible than we think, and maybe it can be updated.