Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Magnetic Fingers Update 1

I've made a new discovery in my experimentation with magnetic fingers. As I walked down the hall here at work, I tried touching everything in sight to test out my new "sense". The building has those special fire doors that are designed to shut when the power goes off. The doors have metal pads that stick to an electromagnetic base on the wall. I put my magneto-finger up to the electromagnetic base and I felt the exact same sensation of whirring that the original article mentioned.

Perhaps the sense is not dependent on the magnet floating under the skin. That definitely felt pretty cool.

I had to glue the magnet back on a little bit, as the glue came loose from the magnet's smooth surface after sticking to a few things too hard. I have a few larger sized magnets I could test with, maybe when this magnet comes loose again I'll give one of them a whirl.

0 comments: