I would be much more excited about contraptions that were more obviously useful and less about providing a special "experience".
Pre-sale of Cyborg implant for sensing North
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#12This seems... incredibly silly. Not crazy or wrong, just silly. This feels like a child walking out of a movie theater like a cowboy, because they just saw a western. I don't want an implant to achieve something I can manage with a needle and a bowl of water.
Maybe if you are blind, this could be helpful to not get lost and get a sense of the direction you are facing. But I guess there are already less invasive solutions (and other sensory inputs like the sun on your skin).
Or just get a Braille compass.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe if you are blind, this could be helpful to not get lost and get a sense of the direction you are facing. But I guess there are already less invasive solutions (and other sensory inputs like the sun on your skin).
Or just a wearable device, but I guess that has drawbacks too.
This "implant" is pretty much a wearable device since it is in contact with skin but is fully outside the body.
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#14This seems... incredibly silly. Not crazy or wrong, just silly. This feels like a child walking out of a movie theater like a cowboy, because they just saw a western. I don't want an implant to achieve something I can manage with a needle and a bowl of water.
This is not about the compass per se, it's about adding an extra sense. The article that made me interested in these kind of things was in Wired about 10 years ago: http://www.wired.com/2007/04/esp/ . Well worth the read in my opinion.
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#15As bizarre as it may look, it's still a small step towards something. Internet-of-Things(buzzword), smart appliances - it's already entering our lives in some fashion. And so will cybernetics. There has to be trendsetters that start with simple things. First car wasn't exactly a modern day Tesla, first airplane did not have peanuts served by beautiful young ladies, first implants and steps towards cybernetics may seem foolish and toy like, but who knows where it will lead us in 10 years
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#16A modicum of awareness suffices to keep anyone informed of the cardinal directions, in most situations not involving subway travel. This is more about "Cyborg" than "North".
While this is trivial for some people, it is extremely difficult to infeasible for others.
Taking advantage of people's passive integration of sensory input into their perception of the world around them seems like a reasonable aid for people who have difficulty with things of this nature.
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#17But it... is just a few piercings and is held on top of your skin?
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#18This seems... incredibly silly. Not crazy or wrong, just silly. This feels like a child walking out of a movie theater like a cowboy, because they just saw a western. I don't want an implant to achieve something I can manage with a needle and a bowl of water.
Totally agree. They want to `design the future` and the first thing they do is to make a device that was rendered obsolete 10 years ago... What next? a device that makes you sense time? or something that makes you feel that someone's trying to reach you?
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#19Telepathy is already possible.
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#20It seems as though wearables like watches can already incorporate directional sensors and pretty much anything else that one might imagine.
This product isn't really an implant. A "pierceable", perhaps.
My guess is, this gadget is probably going to appeal mainly to the techno body modification crowd. In other words, a rather limited market, for now.
Medical applications are where implants will eventually shine: glucose level monitors for diabetics, for example.