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I'd like a follow up to this experiment where someone augmented magnetic fields - "For six weird weeks in the fall of 2004, Udo Wächter had an unerring sense o
by aaron695 6y ago
I'd like a follow up to this experiment where someone augmented magnetic fields -
"For six weird weeks in the fall of 2004, Udo Wächter had an unerring sense of direction. Every morning after he got out of the shower, Wächter, a sysadmin at the University of Osnabrück in Germany, put on a wide beige belt lined with 13 vibrating pads - the same weight-and-gear modules that make a cell phone judder. On the outside of the belt were a power supply and a sensor that detected Earth's magnetic field. Whichever buzzer was pointing north would go off. Constantly."
https://www.wired.com/2007/04/esp/ https://www.wired.com/2007/04/esp/
- kortex 6y agoEver since I heard about this kind of sensory augmentation, I have wanted a higher bandwidth port into the brain, and ideally a minimally invasive one. Vision is great bandwidth but tricky to tap into. I have wanted to try the North sense as a single rgb LED on my glasses. Tactile is good for a side channel - and you can even read with it - but the coding/modulation is key. Auditory is probably the best overall to attack.