In our ever expand­ing tech­nol­ogy advances, humans and tech­nol­ogy are becom­ing even more inter­twined. This can be seen in two new types of body mod­i­fi­ca­tions. One is a mag­net implanted under a fin­ger to pick up small mag­netic objects while the other is a vibrat­ing tat­too con­nected to your cell phone.

The first med­ical inno­va­tion is a small mag­net that is implanted in a fin­ger of your choice. This device would grant you a “sixth sense” by being able to detect pre­vi­ously unknown sen­sa­tions from your world as well as the occasionally-useful abil­ity to grab small mag­netic objects. By mag­ne­tiz­ing one of the fin­gers on your non-dominant hand, it will pro­vide use­ful­ness to dig­its not nor­mally used.

The other new tech­nol­ogy is by Nokia with a new patent for a mag­netic tat­too that vibrates to alert you from your phone. By using fer­ro­mag­netic or para­mag­netic com­pounds, dif­fer­ent mag­netic fields are cre­ated, mak­ing new sen­sa­tions to dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion between types of alert or caller ID.

Now, both of these tech­nolo­gies have their down­sides such as not being able to be scanned by an MRI machine or other such devices. But they sig­nal a shift in tech­nol­ogy and life becom­ing even more fused together.

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