Survey for People with Magnet Implants
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/N5K2MPR
Please take the time to fill this out if you have a magnet implant. It will give us an idea on how to further modify devices such as the Bottlenose that interact with magnets. Thank you.
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It'd be some interesting data - I'd say the area needs as much good research done as possible, to make it all as legit as possible...
Also, you have only one place for implanting dates, there are some people who have multiple ones, not always implanted at the same time - should they fill the survey once per each implant?
I would also ask about what coating was used and if there were any complications as it might affect a bit how the magnet works (self-made hot glue stuff might work differently to sugru which supposedly can start getting micropores and leaking, to factory-made pyralene coating on those stirring magnets - the way materials bond to tissue and how even is the coating may affect it all too)...
And if there were any additional complications (in the healing period after implanting and later), damage, if there were any injuries caused by the magnet interacting with things, how often approximately some pain is caused (1/day, 1/few days, 1/week, 1/month, rarer, never - for example), how often, or how many times more major injury was caused (bruising, subdermal hemorrhaging, other - possibly with field to describe it all) etc.
It might not be all 100% useful for your project, but prospectively it could give a good idea for future, and could gather the data that's now scattered around the forum, blogs etc. with people's experiences into a sort of clean data.
It's just a bunch of suggestions which come to me from medical look at the field and how we usually ask about various side effects and such in surveys. It's your survey though, so of course you're free to do with it anything you like ;P
Hmmm... Or looking at all points I mentioned perhaps I should make different survey with more medical related questions to research it. I bet it'd be useful knowledge both for those who want to get another implants and for completely new people...
I've actually been thinking about doing a bit of research at my university on the subject of investigating how the magnets interact with the tactile sense; in particular, what variables have an effect on sensitivity.
~Ian
I'm studying at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Right now, my idea is still in the "figure out what exactly to put in my proposal" stage, but I'm hoping to get it submitted by about a month from now. What I'm thinking of specifically testing right now is the sensitivity vs. magnet size, both in general and to specific frequencies, as well as the sensitivity of disk magnets vs. longer cylindrical magnets.
If my hypothesis is correct and different-sized magnets have their maximum sensitivity at different frequencies (that there exists a maximum is suggested by the data in Hameed, et. al. 2010), then there might be an advantage to having a different-sized magnet in each fingertip. After all, the cone cells work similarly; each of the three different cone cells in your eyes has a maximum sensitivity at a different frequency of light, though the tails of each curve overlap. Imagine being able to sense magnetic fields in "colour" ;-)
I knew that Professor Warwick had found out about Grindhouse, but I didn't know that you knew about it as well. Thanks for the compliments; now I'm the one who's blushing.
Will your data be public? I am very interested in seeing it. I'm not getting my implant for another week or so unfortunately, I wanted to get it months ago but if it's not one thing it's another, you know?