Comments on: Magnetic Finger: A Sixth Sense

By: Magnet Schmuck

Magnet Schmuck — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:43:06 +0000

this is so cool! and I would also prefer to dissect a hard drive than slice my finger. I actually have a dead hard drive here, which my son now considers as a toy. I would have to borrow it from him for a while. I guess he wouldn’t mind having the magnet taken out.

By: Lidia- fashion games

Lidia- fashion games — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:05:20 +0000

Holy batman! I’ve a hard drive lying around and that sounds like fun!

By: Dave Goldstein

Dave Goldstein — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:48:05 +0000

very cool. I have taken hundreds of old hard drives apart for the magnets. The best are old scsi full height drives, the magnets from those are monsters. It takes 2 people to peel off of things. I still have a bunch of them too.

I haven’t seen any small magnets from the heads but I will look. thanks

By: Dad

Dad — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:23:03 +0000

sounds like fun. i was gonna try it but then i remembered that i have my magnetic implant already.. my de-fib/pacemaker.
that would have been interesting

By: bbum

bbum — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 04:23:37 +0000

There server is in central time? I don’t know — I never really looked into it. There is prolly some wordpress thing to tweak, but time is just so ephemeral anyway.

It is a neat little hack. Don’t expect anything miraculous. The smaller the magnet the better and, if you leave it on all day, you’ll get more attuned to the sensation over time.

By: n[ate]vw

n[ate]vw — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 04:21:53 +0000

Whoops, I thought I’d turned off trackbacks….but if I’m going to make it a triple post anyway: Out of curiosity, is there a particular reason your timestamps are in Central time?

By: n[ate]vw

n[ate]vw — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 04:16:32 +0000

Thanks for passing along the inspiration…I only have a couple of old drives, and I haven’t given any a chance to revive themselves, but the lowest capacity one might just go straight from “flaky” to fingertip!

By: a glob of nerdishness » Finger Upgrade

a glob of nerdishness » Finger Upgrade — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 04:11:16 +0000

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By: Ben Holt

Ben Holt — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:36:55 +0000

The whole thing started when I sent you a link to super-magnet wedding rings The best combination I've found so far is a thin strip cut from the side of a fabric band-aid and the parking magnet from a laptop drive on the side of the pad of my ring finger. It really is amazing to go a whole day with it there, there are a lot of surprising and remarkable fields out there...