Wired News: A Sixth Sense for a Wired World

What if, seconds before your laptop began stalling, you could feel the hard drive spin up under the load? Or you could tell if an electrical cord was live before you touched it? For the few people who have rare earth magnets implanted in their fingers, these are among the reported effects -- a finger that feels electromagnetic fields along with the normal sense of touch.

As long as the Google Implant isn't an option, I might go with another sixth sense. The implications of this are quite amazing – seems as if our brain can be rewired to pick up some other stimulations and interpret them. Makes you wonder how far one could go with other implants … [via & thanks to BoingBoing]

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