Implanting a magnet
After reading some of the forum comments, I'm left wondering whether people have been going about this the wrong way.
I've worked a few different jobs involving manual labor, gone to classes, and helped my family and others move. When you pick something up, whether it's made of wood, metal, glass, cardboard, or even the fabric strap of a backpack, your applying pressure on the muscle of the inside of your hands.
Not a big deal, your supposed to do that, but people who implant a magnet into their finger tips have a different issue. You now have a hard bit of something that isn't supposed to be there, floating at some level between bone, muscle, nerves, and skin.
Compressing it is likely to cause bruising, the collecting of one liquid or another, and from what people are saying in rejection section, rejection.
I have no medical background, so don't know whether this is possible, but if your determined to use your fingertips, either grafting the magnet into the bone, or replacing it if such a thing is possible sounds like the better idea.
If someone with a medical background sees a problem with this idea, please point it out. I'd rather not cause someone to amputate a finger because of a stupid idea on my part.
If you want to put a magnet in your hand though, a better idea might be the meaty or webbed bit between your fingers and thumb. I think you might still be able to feel magnetic fields by doing this. Again, no clue so if this is wrong, tell me.
I've worked a few different jobs involving manual labor, gone to classes, and helped my family and others move. When you pick something up, whether it's made of wood, metal, glass, cardboard, or even the fabric strap of a backpack, your applying pressure on the muscle of the inside of your hands.
Not a big deal, your supposed to do that, but people who implant a magnet into their finger tips have a different issue. You now have a hard bit of something that isn't supposed to be there, floating at some level between bone, muscle, nerves, and skin.
Compressing it is likely to cause bruising, the collecting of one liquid or another, and from what people are saying in rejection section, rejection.
I have no medical background, so don't know whether this is possible, but if your determined to use your fingertips, either grafting the magnet into the bone, or replacing it if such a thing is possible sounds like the better idea.
If someone with a medical background sees a problem with this idea, please point it out. I'd rather not cause someone to amputate a finger because of a stupid idea on my part.
If you want to put a magnet in your hand though, a better idea might be the meaty or webbed bit between your fingers and thumb. I think you might still be able to feel magnetic fields by doing this. Again, no clue so if this is wrong, tell me.
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A while back there was a device that you wore around your neck and it settled on your chest, and when you passed audio through it it would vibrate with the bass to try and create that live music deep 'thwump' feeling, for lack of a better scientific name. With a nearbone or onbone magnet and a powerful enough electromagnetic pulse, would it be possible to feel anything? Or perhaps something closer to the surface, like the collarbones? It's not working off of the same mechanoreceptors, but neither do the tragus magnets and those have some fun uses :)