Greetings from a newcomer, and a couple of concerns :)
First of all I'd like to introduce myself to this awesome emerging community. I'm Athan, a 20 year old cyborg enthusiast since birth(!), and my dream has always been to augment the human body in the most crazy ways imaginable.. Be it underwater breathing, "wireless" mind-to-mind communication, shape shifting, you ask it, I deliver it ;D
While I've always been considered a psycho by the people around me, everyday that passes by reassures me that we are getting closer and closer to a present where man and machine will be virtually indistinguishable. Now since I've always wanted to be a part of it, I decided to start my journey in med school (3rd year so far!), where I'm planning to finish as a neurosurgeon which will hopefully bring me one step closer to achieving such ideas, and maybe continue on some bionic studies. I'd really love to hear your thoughts on my "plan", so please feel free to comment in any way. Additionally, I could not think of any better way to "tweak" myself into an emerging cyborg than having a magnet implant, or two, or three. Since I'm in med school, I believe it would be a shame if I had someone else give me the implant, so here's my thought; I figured that my earplugs have some really potent disk* magnets inside, which are just the right size to fit into a finger just perfectly. What if I coat them with silicone, use a local anesthetic (thoughts on this?), make an incision using my lancet, stick it in and stitch the wound? That's about it, right? The reason I'm choosing the lancet method and not the injection one is, well, I'm not that much into needles, plus I am considering the disk* magnet. It would be great if I could have some feedback on the whole thing :)
Feels goooood to be part of the community, please count me in in any future project!
While I've always been considered a psycho by the people around me, everyday that passes by reassures me that we are getting closer and closer to a present where man and machine will be virtually indistinguishable. Now since I've always wanted to be a part of it, I decided to start my journey in med school (3rd year so far!), where I'm planning to finish as a neurosurgeon which will hopefully bring me one step closer to achieving such ideas, and maybe continue on some bionic studies. I'd really love to hear your thoughts on my "plan", so please feel free to comment in any way. Additionally, I could not think of any better way to "tweak" myself into an emerging cyborg than having a magnet implant, or two, or three. Since I'm in med school, I believe it would be a shame if I had someone else give me the implant, so here's my thought; I figured that my earplugs have some really potent disk* magnets inside, which are just the right size to fit into a finger just perfectly. What if I coat them with silicone, use a local anesthetic (thoughts on this?), make an incision using my lancet, stick it in and stitch the wound? That's about it, right? The reason I'm choosing the lancet method and not the injection one is, well, I'm not that much into needles, plus I am considering the disk* magnet. It would be great if I could have some feedback on the whole thing :)
Feels goooood to be part of the community, please count me in in any future project!
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Look over the forum, lots of people have put up their methods on here, might take a week or so before you get any sensation from what I can gather.
How do you envisage shape-shifting?
Please excuse me for this, I have discs rather than cylinders*, english isn't my native language and I loose it sometimes.
Now well, considering that we already put psychedelics aside^^, my answer would be more than naive unless I come to the clearest of understandings over the subatomic world along with its manipulation. Even if my knowledge and experience was along that spectrum, my greatest question over the matter would be, how do you keep all that information currently present in your brain (thus You) from dispersing during the process?
And how about you, what would your thoughts be on the matter?
I don't seem to get what you mean by prosthetic limbs based on the squid though, could you explain a bit more on that? I mean, do you envision them as something permanent, wear & take off, or will it be used in the cases of severe accidents..?
Cheers :)
Do you have a lot of experience with human anatomy? It seems that people with experience/knowledge of where and how to cut people open |safely| are not as common in the grinder community as you might hope. Your input on medical concerns will be very welcome.
As for your plan to implant your headphone/earbud magnet, my experience is that using a lancet is a fantastic way to go (and using a local anesthetic would make things easy as pie, though I'm not sure about its legality/I don't need to know). There is a video on of Sovereign Bleak implanting a disk magnet in his finger (the link is somewhere on the forum, but I can't find it), and you might want to check that out before going ahead with the procedure. He has some good tips about it. And in general I'd advise you to read through as many of the posts here with the "Magnets" tag as you can (http://discuss.biohack.me/categories/magnets) as well as the Wiki page (http://collaborate.biohack.me/). Lots of good info there.
I'm afraid I don't have any advice regarding the silicon coating. The magnet I had implanted had a parylene C coating already on it. Maybe the silicon would make it more difficult to remove than parylene or teflon? Not my area of expertise.
At any rate, glad to have you on board and good luck with your project!
Mr. Sticky
I'd love to further look into that concept Dr.E, hopefully as soon as I'm finished with my exam period next week.. Imagine that, right!