Magnetic Fingers

I recently read this article in WIRED magazine and was immediately engaged. The idea of being able to sense magnetic fields is pretty cool, but obviously the cruddy implants is not so cool.

Months later, today, I'm at work. I spend most of my time dismantling iBooks for parts. Each iBook has three or four small, but powerful magnets in it for the latch, the sleep sensor etc. I remembered that article and superglued a tiny one to my right hand ring finger.

So far I can feel obvious magnetic attraction, like other magnets and metal. I haven't experienced any sensation from a live current, yet. I also have not been able to feel the hard drive spinning in my computer as the article suggests. My ideas on this are that:

A: I'm not used to the magnet enough yet.
B: I can't feel these things because the magnet is not free floating like in these guys' fingers.

We'll see how long this superglue lasts, and whether my finger gets ripped off or not because of it.