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Brilliant! I'm very slowly catching up. @Saal, do you have something on the near infrared vision I could read? @ThomasEgi; hey, boss, long time no see. ",) That's some serious miniaturization. What's planned for the buses? @duneo: Sorry for the utter derailing.
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Down against the meat means further from the nerves; if it's a zero-feedback implant, possibly. From observing intramuscular injection of animals, a volume of fluid pushed under mobile skin (think around the armpit) will create a bubble, but I have NO idea what's going on inside it. (Also: I've finally recovered access. Hi…
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"Very active topic" is code for "we know fucking nothing about this, and are working as hard as possible to change that." We're *starting* to see results on environmental contamination with silver nanoparticles (first approximation: plants don't like it), so I doubt human toxicity studies are in progress. The toxicological…
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It heats up the skin: it's essentially the world's biggest microwave. Yay, ionizing radiation being used to lightly toast protesters. :(
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Yup. And what pain there was appears to have died off, too, though I'm staying off really narrow grips. Not sure how an implant would take the impacts of parkour rather than the pressure of rock-climbing, though.
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Iestyn's an absolute diamond, alright. I don't know where I picked up that about Parylene (probably somewhere here) but I can't find anything to back it up elsewhere, so unless someone else wants to chime in with their contradicting experience, I'm going to assume I got the wrong end of the stick. It's dead easy to push…
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Turns out what I was remembering was the original ITAP paper... Direct link to an image of the implant (showing the structure) here. But yes, I agree with @ThomasEgi: subdermal things are going to give us enough trouble without borrowing future pain quite yet. Let's learn how to make implants, before we try to figure out…
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Hmmm... highly unscientific sensation tests (me touching my forehead with stuff) doesn't immediately rule it out - but then, I'm not sure what the minimum info density needed is. You do realize you've just killed my whole weekend with that link, right? ",)
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The important part of the phrase "tiny sharp bits," in the context of an implant, is the word sharp. O hai, internal bleeding. Magnet strength scales with size; too small a magnet won't pick up anything, and is therefore useless as a sensor. There've already been arguments on the board about where to draw that line...
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Now THIS sounds interesting. ",)
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My experience with iron filings say it can be a metaphorical pain, at least... :-)
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The issue isn't the inertness or not of the PTFE, it's the interestingness of whatever colonizes it - a transdermal is a potential Royal Road through the first and best part of our immune system; MRSA and necrotizing fasciitis (flesh-eating bacteria to you and me) both live harmlessly on the skin, but when they get through…
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Nice work, guys!
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@Bish: isn't that first idea basically "give your user a little bit of the kind of surgery Wolverine is supposed to have gone through? The kind people think he needed a healing factor to survive?" The second idea sounds far more doable. More generally, I will point out _anything_ stretchy is going to change resistance as…
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@Vpad: uh, yeah, but he wrote "Brave New World" as a projection of what he thought the world might look like, not as a dystopia. And technically, it's *not* a dystopia: the vast majority (far more than our current society) are utterly content with their lives. (Which is probably the scariest thing in the whole book.)…
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If you're looking for scientific data: have you read the Warwick group paper on the magnets? Re: positioning: you just need to get the magnet somewhere movement induced by a magnetic field impinging on it will be felt. The fingers are very rich in mechanoreceptors, so that's where it goes. There's no "nerve cluster." This…
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Yeeeah. I'm entirely in favour of you being able to look like whatever you want to look like, but a) there's so much "genes don't work like that" I don't even know where to begin. SixEcho wasn't saying you would, should, or could experiment on embryos: they were saying that if everything went right and your descolada-power…
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I didn't get on a plane a few days after, but I had no issues flying in the months after. I assume the only difference would be the fresh wound, and your airline or a medical advice forum is more likely to be able to help there. Out of curiosity, where in London is doing Parylene-coated magnets? Edit: And to sorta answer…
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Press the speaker to your jaw, or bite down HARD on it, to get some idea of sound transmission quality.
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If you're looking for bone-conduction of sound, dental implants are pretty much THE way to go, given the fairly straightforward linkage to the ear.
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As @DirectorX has previously stated: ice. (",)
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Also: they completely ignored Lepht's stated preference not to be referred to as "she"/"her" - something we're not all that great on here, either, folk... (In the comments here and here for reference - grep for "pronoun")
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I went to the UK - nearly a whole hour by plane away - and got a piercer there to do it, but I doubt that my experience is really comparable. What were you looking to find out?
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It's good, but why the shitting on Lepht?
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Sensitivity might be low if it's too deep, but I wouldn't worry about it yet: it was a good 6 weeks before I reliably felt anything from mine (and sensation still occasionally drops out if my hands have been in water for a while and the skin's loosened) - give it time to heal around the implant.
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Glad to hear it went ok. You said "professional" - body mod or medical?
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Stimulation isn't the hard part - well, harder part. It's the 'off' switch that's the killer.
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Hi, Hypermoloch, another Paddy here. First off: I Am Not A Doctor, or remotely qualified in any way - not that that's ever stopped me shitting on before; that's why I have the username I do. Nerve inhibition is likely not doable with electrodes at current tech levels. The best way we have nowadays seems to be to gently…
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Just to clear up a misconception: it is possible to feel a static magnetic field, but it's a single pull, which is not all that useful, sensing-wise.
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Huh. I've seen plenty of discussion of replacement hips/knees etc being parylene-coated. More reading to do, it seems. ",) Thanks!