Found in my works silverware drawer. Tempted to take it, none of my spoons even approach this level of perfection.
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If this is actual silver, then it's not a perfect spoon to me. I had a magnet implanted into my right pinky finger for stimming reasons, and for me a perfect spoon must be ferromagnetic (i.e. attracted to magnets, steel).
Any more info on this body mod?
Here's the BME (Body Modification Encyclopaedia) page about it (TW Blood): https://wiki.bme.com/index.php/Magnetic_implant
It was invented by Steve Haworth and he's trained folks across the world on implanting them. The magnets he gets made and sells on to body modders are the gold standard because they're chamfered to be pill shaped before being encased in body safe plastic, so there are no sharp edges that can split. I got it done at a place here in Melbourne called Piercing HQ back in 2017 for AU$300, and last I checked the price hadn't gone up.
The coolest thing about it is that it's not just a magnet in your body. It actually hijacks your sense of touch to provide a "magnetic sense". It does this by basically squishing the skin between the magnet and whatever you're holding it against. So I can tell when something is magnetic, versus ferromagnetic, I can sense electromagnetic fields, I can feel when the field around an electric motor is particularly "dirty" bc it's a cheap brushed motor, compared to the "cleanness" of a good brushless motor.
One really weird/uncomfy thing that happens is that a large external magnet can flip the internal one around so the poles are opposite again. It's an incredibly weird sensation.
Anyway, let me know if you have anymore questions <3
That does sound cool! Does it mean you can't handle hard-drives, tapes etc? I guess you can never get an MRI either now
It's not powerful enough to affect those things, you usually need a stronger electromagnet to start causing issues. I have tried to make the mag-strip on a credit card stop working. As for MRIs, you can actually, they just need to treat it like non-removable shrapnel :)