How deep.

Because won't the constant pressure cause the skin to thin out overtime until the magnets are joined.

RexTalionis: Msol: Hm, this is the first time body modification has appealed to me at all.

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What about piercing glasses?

Pretty cool but damn that would be annoying in the shower or winter when they fog from the cold! Are they detachable?

This wasn't an infomercial, people.

RexTalionis: DenisBergkamp: RexTalionis: Msol: Hm, this is the first time body modification has appealed to me at all.

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What about piercing glasses?

Pretty cool but damn that would be annoying in the shower or winter when they fog from the cold! Are they detachable?

Yeah, they're detachable - the lens are hung on a bar that pierces the bridge of the nose.

Easy enough. Used to have piercings during the young days. Wouldn't be so bad if it were as easy as unscrewing the bar and sliding it off. Even easier if you could just pop it off and leave the bar in.

DenisBergkamp: ...Even easier if you could just pop it off and leave the bar in.

Pretty sure that's how those particular body mods work.

/The eyeglasses, that is...

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Guy found a couple years ago that using magnetic implants to carry things causes the skin between the magnet and the thing being carried to die, and the implants to be rejected.

He could've googled "magnetic implants" to find out that he's not even slightly original, and his idea will screw up his arm.

Link

Wrong link, I'm an idiot.

Since I wear my nano on my collar I ain't going near this. I don't like a long cord.

brap: I thought magnets where ruinous to such electronic gadgets?

Maybe not.

The short answer is "it depends".

The longer answer is that it depends on what exactly the device is, whether any shielding is in use, whether the magnet is moving relative to any device parts, and what exactly the proximity is. For example, a digital egg timer has a magnet on the back 90% of the time and it doesn't really bother them. In the case of an iWhatever the only things you're definitely going to mess with is your orientation devices (specifically designed to read B-fields like a compass) and your GPS components (coiled wires with simple, steady current).

I mean, don't take my word entirely for it, I'm a chemical/materials specialist and generally modify devices rather than designing them in my work, but that's how the basic physics and design parameters work out.

TommyymmoT: I didn't think that iPods and magnets got along very well, so I Googled key words "iPod" & "magnet"

That would have been a problem back in the Dark Ages, when iPods actually used a traditional magenitized disc drive for their memory, but that hasn't been the case for a while (I wouldn't have bought an iPhone if it weren't for the fact that it uses solid state memory; I'm too clumsy and disc drives are too fragile).

say some old lady walks by and she's got a metal hip implant and his hand gets stuck to her butt?

Someone should have told him they make wristbands for those things.

TommyymmoT: TommyymmoT: I didn't think that iPods and magnets got along very well, so I Googled key words "iPod" & "magnet".

While not everybody had problems, an awful lot of them did, and the problems were pretty major.
I work on alot of electronic gear, and I actually have a cheap demagnetizer left over from the cassette tape days that I use on them every once in a while because magnetized tools annoy the hell out of me.

All in all, this guy's a complete farking nitwit.

I demagnetize my tools.
Sorry, I left that out.

What? How do you not looks those Fn little screw trying to start them?

Magnetic screw driver for the win.

Feh. This guy's a piker. I have my headphones (white! I want EVERYONE to know how cool I am) permanently fixed to my ears with industrial epoxy. My left hand (only the left, I need the other one) has been surgically replaced with an iPod dock which has speakers in all the fingertips. Now when I go out in public I can educate the peons around me about my excellent taste in music that nobody except me has heard of. I had some trouble last week when a really uncool guy tried to steal my iPod, even after I read him a poem about how theft makes the universe queasy. He left me alone after the first 98 lines but only after I agreed to let him pistol-whip me unconscious. Materialists are such a drag.

I don't know why tattoos don't appeal to me at all, but body modification does.* This strikes me as cool, though I'd prefer them not to protrude from my skin.


*I think it's because I love the idea of being mechanicaly or cyberneticaly modified, though I wouldn't go as far as to setup a connection with the internet into my mind, I've read too much sci-fi for that to seem like a wise move.

Hmm... Speaking of mechanical body augmentation, has anyone else played Deus Ex: Human Revolution? I just started and it's amazing.

My mother is getting custom artificial lens implants courtesy of medicaid/care (whichever) because of cataracts; when she told me, I said "You're becoming a cyborg!"


/new eyes > arm magnets

Wayne 985: Hmm... Speaking of mechanical body augmentation, has anyone else played Deus Ex: Human Revolution? I just started and it's amazing.

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Yes, it's pretty good overall, but you can build a set of skills that make the game almost too easy.

For instance you can hack the hardest security settings without any but the main hacking tools, leaving room for the more useful physical upgrades. Great writing tho.

omigawd that guy is so cool!

lewismarktwo: Wayne 985: Hmm... Speaking of mechanical body augmentation, has anyone else played Deus Ex: Human Revolution? I just started and it's amazing.

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Yes, it's pretty good overall, but you can build a set of skills that make the game almost too easy.

For instance you can hack the hardest security settings without any but the main hacking tools, leaving room for the more useful physical upgrades. Great writing tho.

Typhoon spamming on boss fights FTW.


/boss fights are my only complaint in that game.

I came here for a Magneto Reference.. Guess how I am leaving...

ZeroCorpse: RexTalionis: Msol: Hm, this is the first time body modification has appealed to me at all.

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What about piercing glasses?

Idiotic. I used to be an optician, and I can tell you that would be a really awful way to wear spectacles. It's an invitation to make your vision worse.

But hey, it's edgy. Some people think being edgy is a good substitute for a personality.

Why would it be any different than regular glasses? Or are you referring to a possible accident where the lenses are shoved into the guys eye sockets?

I hope this guy realizes that he will never take less than 2 hours to get through a TSA checkpoint again.

Ok, let's clarify a few things. First, the wired link about Steve Haworth is from '06. Back then Steve was experimenting with magnetic implants, mostly to test materials, etc. The first generation had a problem with the silicone coating, in that it eroded over time, once the coating was eroded, the rare earth magnet went pretty quickly, resulting in all the them being removed.

Fast forward to today and magnetic implants (especially the ones from Steve) are manufactured in a way that the implant grade silicone can't erode. The magnets themselves are rare earth magnets, however the most you can pick up with them is a paperclip or a coin. The most noticeable side effect of the implants is that you tend to pick up electromagnetic signals, giving yourself almost an extra sense.

Now, that all said, what the guy in TFA did doesn't involve subdermal implants. He used what is called a microdermal, which is essentially a small transdermal implant with a small anchor that is inserted into the skin. They've actually come to replace surface piercings in a lot of situations simply because they're very easy to put in and take out. Once they're in, the jewelry is internally threaded, which means the top portion can be replaced without having to remove the base. What happened here was that he put in 4 microdermals, then swapped the top from a gemstone to a flat surfaced magnet.

More information can be found here. All links SFW.

http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/Microdermal
http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/Magnetic_implant

Spaced Lion: I hope this guy realizes that he will never take less than 2 hours to get through a TSA checkpoint again.

Most professional jewelry is implant grade surgical steel, which tends not to set off too many alarms.

http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/316LVM_ASTM_F-138

Having dropped my Ipod into the toilet, I can see the appeal behind this.

RexTalionis: Msol: Hm, this is the first time body modification has appealed to me at all.

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What about piercing glasses?

I prefer the Opti-Grab.

Flappyhead: lewismarktwo: Wayne 985: Hmm... Speaking of mechanical body augmentation, has anyone else played Deus Ex: Human Revolution? I just started and it's amazing.

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Yes, it's pretty good overall, but you can build a set of skills that make the game almost too easy.

For instance you can hack the hardest security settings without any but the main hacking tools, leaving room for the more useful physical upgrades. Great writing tho.

Typhoon spamming on boss fights FTW.


/boss fights are my only complaint in that game.

i hate you guys im stuck playin the first one still. poor pall i accidentally killed him with a lam in his ap.

TommyymmoT: I didn't think that iPods and magnets got along very well, so I Googled key words "iPod" & "magnet".

An iPod 'classic' or an early Nano I can see being upset about a magnet, they had HDD's in them (yes, the nano had a CF Card sized HDD at one time). I can't see any of the modern flash based ones having issues.