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Ask HN: Ideas for a prosthesis for sense substitution?
I'd love to become a cyborg (though prosthetic knowledge already makes me one). What new sense could I gain?
For sense substitution you usually need:
- a portable sensor (If possible something that moves with your body, this direct feedback makes learning much easier and might be key to a intuitive sense-like feeling. e.g. an IR-thermometer attached to a finger.)
- an interface / feedback (translating what the sensor senses to human sense. e.g. the thermometer reading to vibration)
feel free to submit known experiments also, I know there are quite a few. Yet I find it surprising, that most sensors that are portable and somewhat useful are already covered by the human body.
- anotheryou 12y agoWhat I know of (but am to lazy to find the links): - Compass to vibration: a belt that vibrates to north (not really useful, though it reminds me of the aborigines that only have cardinal directions, no relative ones like left or right) - IR vision to vision: before cool night vision goggles there where experiments with feeding soldiers some modified proteins or something so their vision would shift towards infrared - remote temperature to audio: http://hackaday.com/2014/03/20/modular-arduino-based-infrared-thermometer/ http://hackaday.com/2014/03/20/modular-arduino-based-infrare... less useful in everyday life but very possible (also both not directed enough. Moving 3 meters to see a change is not direct enough for a feedback loop): - wifi-noise to audio - geiger counter to audio . for people that are missing senses: - color vision to audio (the guy who I know of using this, fights for the rights of cyborgs) - vision to tactile sense (low-res grey scale image to braille like "image" on your back) - sound to nerve stimulation (cochlea implant) - camera to nerve stimulation (some eye prosthesis, currently low res, but relatively new still)