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- gamertagg, on 08/25/2008, -2/+54anyone get annoyed at her laugh?
- ChromaVita, on 08/25/2008, -4/+48Seriously? An hour?
- brincatmark, on 08/24/2008, -2/+27Go get an MRI with those magnets ;) You will flyyyy
- btschul, on 08/25/2008, -4/+26***** me, one hour? Anyone have a "best of" video?
- LoneCrow, on 08/25/2008, -2/+23Her laugh is intolerable...
- snowrail, on 08/25/2008, -1/+21Um, no, I didn't "almost die"!!!
I had a problem with the silicone casing on some of them go bad, and they were removed quite cleanly and with no issues. Quinn (who's giving this talk) had the same issue. I have five magnets in me still in perfect condition and absolutely love them. I can sense all sorts of electromagnetic fields, can feel electricity running through power cords, and effectively have a sixth sense. I can feel the exact shape, motion, and strength of the bubbles of EM coming off transformers, engines, and so on. I have no regrets whatsoever about having done this, and it's definitely not a dumb idea in my opinion.
More details on my blog -- this entry links to numerous entries and articles which discuss the risks as well as the benefits in detail:
http://www.zentastic.com/blog/2008/07/13/dragons-a ...
(I can't link them directly from Digg AFAIK) - sark666, on 08/25/2008, -0/+17Even though it's long, I watched most of it, and some of it is pretty out there, but this person brings up some interesting thoughts. I was curious who she was, and I love this bit I found out from her wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinn_norton
Quinn's Symphonic Conundrum
Quinn's Symphonic Conundrum is a conceptual prank involving writing and executing a computer program that would output all possible melodies, and then copyrighting the resulting score. Any music made afterwards would, depending on licensing terms, therefore be a copyright violation. One possibility is that the completed work would be licensed under a noncommercial license, thereby providing that people could make music, but never again be able to sell it. - inactive, on 08/25/2008, -3/+16With magnets in the fingertips you can have a little difficulty with your credit cards.
- JaronDiggGuy, on 08/24/2008, -0/+13No.
- Stupidumb, on 08/25/2008, -0/+11I thought her laugh was genuinely annoying
- metateck, on 08/25/2008, -0/+10Can somebody point me to the interesting parts of this hour long video?
- EndouOuto, on 08/25/2008, -0/+9We don't do that here.
- btschul, on 08/25/2008, -0/+9She put a small rare earth magnetic coated in gold and a biological neutral plastic in her finger, and the nerves grew around it and it let her "feel" magnetic fields and live wires. It eventually broke, however, and spread out in her finger and got infected and now she can't get anywhere near an MRI. I'm only about half way through the video.
- inactive, on 08/25/2008, -1/+9Dude, I don't have that type of attention span.
- gn0stik, on 08/25/2008, -0/+8I thought it was cool till she talked about the magnet breaking up inside her finger, and NO MRIs..... EVER....
***** that. - absintheParty, on 08/25/2008, -0/+8Yes, very much so. We get it your nervous and on super drugs
- inactive, on 08/25/2008, -0/+7If you still have a CRT and are one of those annoying people who touch the screen, then it might possibly distort the picture. but then you would deserve it.
- btschul, on 08/25/2008, -0/+7Shouldn't you be getting back to the youtube comment section?
- Chairboy, on 08/25/2008, -1/+8If you don't understand why you're being dugg-down, and are staring at your computer screen with your head cocked and a look of vaguely unfocused confusion pulling your askew (think Nipper the dog in 'His Master's Voice'), it's because your post has as much to do with the subject of this article as a banana has with a VCR.
Yes, you can (and might have recently) jam a banana into the slot of a video cassette player, but that means you're _doing it wrong_. - snowrail, on 08/25/2008, -0/+7The magnets don't affect credit cards. However, stores that use powerful electromagnets to clear anti-theft devices can be a problem, as they shake the magnet in your finger quite violently, and it's painful almost like an electric shock.
- snowrail, on 08/25/2008, -0/+6The purpose is sensation, not magnetism. So the magnet just has to be able to respond to an EM field. A more powerful magnet is not necessarily better, and comes with its own problems.
- inactive, on 08/25/2008, -0/+6magnets wont harm a computer unless they are very strong ones. the field of rare earth magnet would not even reach a hard drives platter if you touched the hard drive itsself.
- HonestAbe, on 08/25/2008, -0/+6In the UK your credit cards use fish and chips strips?
- pukiman, on 08/25/2008, -0/+6How about a summarization for the rest of us?
- MatthewK, on 08/25/2008, -0/+6Starts off sloooooow, but it gets pretty good later on, you just have to have patience.
Also, it's one hour and five minutes long on YouTube. I thought there was like a 10 or 15 minute length limit?? Did I miss something, did they lift the limit recently?? - vilago, on 08/25/2008, -1/+6touch a CRT. ooooooo look at all the pretty colors i can make on the screen!!
- kfm7, on 08/25/2008, -0/+5yep
- cpsutcliffe, on 08/25/2008, -0/+5Depends on your channel type, and when you signed up for it.
Previously, if you signed up for a Director channel, you got unlimited video times, but when they stopped it the users who joined that channel type during that time still had unlimited video times. - SammyJr, on 08/25/2008, -4/+9Mac users (and Apple customers in general) are usually as pretentious as ***** and total brand whores. Why would I want a woman who would want me to spend more money for less and be totally obnoxious about it?
- inactive, on 08/25/2008, -6/+11It was attempted by Shannon Larratt of old BME fame. He had magnets implanted in his finger tips, and probably almost died as a result. His emergency magnet-ectomy at the hands of a street surgeon in Toronto was definitely a bloody mess to be witnessed.
It's a really, really dumb idea. - Greedfeed, on 08/25/2008, -0/+4yes, thank you.
- jester55, on 08/25/2008, -1/+5I thought the maximum limit was 10 minutes
- credizian, on 08/25/2008, -0/+4thank you for that...and please let us know what the remaining half says.
- newanalog, on 08/25/2008, -0/+4Annoying as hell that girl.
- anonatron, on 08/25/2008, -1/+5This is so old I read about it in print media!
- snowrail, on 08/25/2008, -0/+4The inspiration for this actually came from a similar case, where a metalworker got a magnetized piece of iron in his fingertip and got the ability to sense EM fields...
Links to more info here:
http://www.zentastic.com/blog/2008/07/13/dragons-a ... - StuartGibson, on 06/14/2009, -0/+4They have magnetic strips, but all transactions are via an embedded chip (not RFID). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_and_pin
- sark666, on 08/25/2008, -0/+3People with magnetic implants can't erase hard drives or credit cards. They don't set off airport metal detectors or get stuck to refrigerators. The magnets are small, and once encased in skin, all they do is react next to nerves, conveying the presence of sufficiently strong electromagnetic fields. "The magnetic implant is not the most sophisticated or rich sensation, it was just the easiest to implement with our available technology," says Huffman.
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mods/news/2006/06/710 ... - xVern, on 08/25/2008, -2/+5I'd post some really good articles, but most people here wouldn't really care. The ones that do, already know. BMEZine.com if you do want to know more.
- Lust4Me, on 08/25/2008, -0/+3BodyMags: We erase your cards, but not your debt (TM).
- Zapkiller, on 08/25/2008, -0/+3Has been done before. A guy in Denmark had an injury where he got some metal in his finger. He never got it removed and later he reported "feeling" electromagnetic waves when he was at work.
Though I don't know what you could actually use this sense for... - Tommydukes, on 08/25/2008, -1/+4I disliked her from the start
true story - inactive, on 08/25/2008, -1/+4The UK cards have no magnetic strip? I find that hard to believe that every locale in the UK has switched over to RFID.
- aplusbi, on 08/25/2008, -0/+3I have a magnet implanted and touched a CRT. The magnetic field generated by the magnet was not strong enough to have any effect on the CRT.
I've also tried erasing MetroCards and credit cards with no effect. - ahawks, on 08/25/2008, -0/+3An interesting talk for sure, interesting to think about our ever-shifting boundaries. For example I don't like piercings or tattoos, but I am diabetic and want an RFID continuous glocometer.
- skabyss, on 08/25/2008, -1/+4About 70% longer than it needed to be, a lot of meaningless banter. The lady got a bit annoying to listen to, and she seemed a bit nervous almost, but she did come across as a very cool chick. In conclusion, as soon as she quits talking about the magnets, you might as well close the video.
- inactive, on 08/25/2008, -1/+4This lady is creepy. Imagine that insecure laugh along in the dark...
- haentz, on 08/25/2008, -1/+4For everyone who is curious about here supposedly annoying laugh: Skip to 2:00.. And yeah... It's really THAT annoying...
- aplusbi, on 08/25/2008, -1/+4It's really not that hard to remove the magnet. Certainly much easier than removing pacemakers, cochlear implants, and all other medical devices that preclude people from MRIs.
- post3r3r, on 08/25/2008, -0/+3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Evil That really sounds like an evil genius' plan.
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