no, i don’t know of any evidence, but that’s the obverse of the same coin.  i suppose i was being hyperbolic about cancer specifically, but _I_ wouldn’t want to be the case study for how all those electromagnetic fields are going to affect my cells.  cellular exposure to unusual stimuli, particularly at such close proximity, tends to have an effect.  neither he, you, nor I know what that effect will be. why gamble that the effect will be benign?

CFs [Compact Flash drives] aren’t magnetic media, so they can’t be erased like, say, a floppy disk or a hard drive. However, depending on the strength of the magnetic field, a CF isn’t completely safe. For instance, if you were to do an MRI of your CF (or any other piece of sensitive electronic circuitry, for that matter), it would be toast. It’s not simply the strength of the magnetic field that matters, so much as the rate at which the field changes. If you go from strong field to no field very quickly or vice versa, then the change in magnetic flux can generate small voltages over wires, traces, etc. If the voltages are high enough, then they can cause damage.

The cool kids smoke to give themselves cancer because there’s actual, you know, science backing that up.

Microdermal implants on the wrists tend not to last very long (I have 4 in my stomach, they’ve been there 4 years), let alone if they’re having to support extra weight all the time.It’s a cool gimmick, but nothing more.

To me, tattooing corporate logos on a human being, even/especially when it’s Harley Davidson, is kinda like denying your own personality, your own humanity.  Modifying your body Putting your body’s health at risk for a throw-away non-essential consumer product is like willingly becoming a cog in a soulless sociopathic machine.  A soulless cog.

Thanks.

If this was something medically useful, say a monitoring device for someone with a heart condition, I’d be impressed.
I think body-modification is an individuals right if they want to do it, and I’ve played with it myself, but I actually find this person to be pathetic.

It won’t be once the intermediate technology of the MRI is replaced in a few years.

Of course, given a few years, the non-metallic implants which mirror the rest of the common, mundane technology, it will be safe in the new scanners and the legacy MRI machines.

But, bullshit aside, yeah, wait till he needs an MRI…

/Yeah, I know. I know…bandless watch…I get it.

However, the article clearly says “Once the incisions healed, he popped on his iPod, which is held in place magnetically.” I guess it’s editing that makes this look wrong.