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A man with metal horns protruding from his forehead and a split tongue poking out between his teeth advanced toward me with a scalpel. "I've never done this before," he joked, inching closer.
A full-sleeve tattoo snaked out from beneath his black T-shirt, extending from a demon on his bicep to a skull on his fist. My eyes darted between skull and scalpel, then instinctively shut as I cringed, bracing for contact. Zack Watson, the inked-up body modification artist I'd hired — and drove seven hours from New York City to see — was about to sew a magnet under my skin.
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Biohacking enthusiasts have tinkered with electronic tattoos and subdermal — underneath-the-skin — implants for two decades, sharing their efforts in videos on YouTube and internet forums to spread and encourage innovation. Proponents believe smart implants represent the future of wearable technology, potentially making humans healthier and more efficient while providing new opportunity to consumer-technology companies such as Apple Inc. AAPL, -0.34% and Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, -0.71% GOOG, -0.57% that are investing heavily in technology that could revolutionize health care.All of these predictions [quoted in the article] come as global adoption of wearables is forecast to boom. Juniper Research, which tracks consumer technology trends, expects world-wide wearable shipments to reach 420 million by 2020, more than four times the 80 million shipped in 2015. A similar surge is predicted for medical devices, with shipments projected to triple to 70 million over the next four years.
Trans-humanism has been around for a while, but the article focuses on the investment capital that is now flowing into the area.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17 2016, @11:54AM
Beer pumps? You mean co2?
(Score: 1) by Magneto on Thursday November 17 2016, @12:02PM
In the UK you get different types of pumps. Most ale pumps are manually powered and I think use some sort of gas pressure to pump the beer, but a lot of lager pumps are electrically powered (I think).
Now granted I don't know actually know if what I've felt is the beer pumps or something else but it seems reasonable given the placement.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Webweasel on Thursday November 17 2016, @01:15PM
Your both half right actually!
Ales are hand pumped (AS THEY SHOULD BE!)
But lagers, etc use an electric and CO2 system. Modern ones have several micro-switch's in the lever to indicate the pressure that should be applied (By varying the CO2 pressure).
Traditionally it was CO2 Pressure only, the electrics came in about 10 years ago.
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(Score: 1) by Magneto on Thursday November 17 2016, @01:41PM
That makes sense. I've never felt anything near an ale tap but some lager taps have something giving off a surprisingly large field next to them. In general the only things I've found that give off a comparable field are microwaves (presumably the magnetron), transformers, motors, and some electrical heaters.