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I'm sure many of you have seen this image floating around online at some point.

It seems a rather neat idea, though I'd be worried about any sort of accident, or even potential fight, ripping that piercing right out.

But, what if the lenses attached with magnets instead?...

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Why not make the lenses small enough to just fit on your eyeball?

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because then you have to touch your eyeball and that’s gross

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Not if you're any fun. Here's a new word for some: worming

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[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because the same people who would hurt themselves accidentally ripping out their nose bridge piercings would forget to take out their fit-to-eyeball lenses absolutely every day before going to sleep.

(it's me, i'm people)

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I cannot rule out that that would be me.

frantically checks eyes for lenses she doesn't even own

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I once found twenty-eight pennies under my foreskin which is strange because the Canadian Mint stopped making them in 2012.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago

Plot twist: SatansMaggotyCumFart is circumcised.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Flat edges or round edge Canadian pennies?

We need more details..

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Wasn't there also one who went to a doctor with a "stuck lens she couldn't remove" and it was actually her cornea? I think she did some permanent damage to her eye

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Oof, I saw that one. How does that even happen, without eye infection no less?!

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because having continuous infections on the top of the bridge of your nose is way more fun.

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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why would you want the lenses touching your eyeball? I would imagine that’d be very uncomfortable, not to mention messy. I’d be cleaning my glasses every time my eyes changed direction. 🤣 😅 🥸😏

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

You do realize that Satan was referring to contact lenses right?

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because then you couldn't look nearly as cyberpunk

I want silver ones like Molly Millions.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I think this would be painful over time and probably make that skin saggy, as it stretches it out over time.

I have a magnet implant in my hand and it's uncomfortable to have something as small as a screw hanging on it.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have a magnet implant in my hand and it’s uncomfortable to have something as small as a screw hanging on it.

Be careful with hanging stuff from your magnet implant: the pressure on your skin isn't necessarily great but it's constant and unrelenting, and you could cause necrosis of your skin the magnet pinches in as little as one hour. That's mostly the reason why I never pursued magnet implants to attach things to my body (and also because I want to retain the ability to get an MRI done)

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Wh... Why do you have a magnet implant in your hand? If you don't mind me asking. If you do mind, I didn't ask.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Probably as a fashion item. It makes them more attractive.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago

I will accept this as reality.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

100% truth. You should see the ladies get wet when I pick up a coin with it at the bar.

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Some people who work with electricity so this because it lets them feel electric fields.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I wonder how strong the electromagnetic field needs to be, and what frequency, to feel it. I'd love to have the ability to touch an ethernet cable and feel whether it's actively communicating.

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Not very strong. Your fingers are extremely sensitive, so once nerve endings form around the implant you should be able to feel almost anything. Rub a single hair across your finger and you can feel it, now imagine that your finger is 20 times more sensitive or that that hair is imbedded into your skin.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Wh… Why do you have a magnet implant in your hand? If you don’t mind me asking. If you do mind, I didn’t ask.

Not the OP, but I too have implants all over my body - mostly in my hands also but not only. They're RFID and NFC transponders and they let me open doors, start my car (when I care to drive it, which isn't often), pay for things with contactless payment, log into computers, authenticate myself with my banking app...

I don't think I've used a key in the last 5 years, and a payment card in the last 3 months.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I fucking love the concept although I personally struggle to think of use cases in my own life that would justify the cost and effort. Very cool though.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

My use case was getting into the building at work because I kept losing my tag. One quick jab, copying the ID with a Proxmark3 and problem solved. Then I installed a NFC lock at home - that I upgraded to a RFID floor mat - so I have a NFC transponder implanted in my hand, and a RFID one in my foot. Super useful to unlock the door with your arms full of groceries 🙂 Then it kind of snowballed from there and it became a bit of a hobby. But my rule is, I never implant stuff that I don't plan to use everyday to make my life easier, so all my implants are used all the time.

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

That's actually super cool. How do you get these implants?? Are you DIYing it? :o how do they stay in the same place and not like, travel up your arm from your hand? :o

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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've wanted RFID and the led nfc for a while, but keep hoping the dangerousthings guy will show up at toorcamp and he doesn't.

Yes I want a silly led under my skin. https://dangerousthings.com/product/xsiid/?srsltid=AfmBOorlULponcOOALBKxqyIN9YMJUyB74o1FhdSV0c5TSqnRpgdaPy-

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’ve wanted RFID and the led nfc for a while, but keep hoping the dangerousthings guy will show up at toorcamp and he doesn’t.

It's just a glassie. Anybody vaguely competent can inject it in you wherever you want.

But if you absolutely want Amal to do it, PM him on the forum 🙂

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

I'm lazy and the convenience of him being right there was the appeal. Russ Foxx is local & did my magnet, I could just use him.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Why not? How often can you gain another sense?

I'm mostly forgotten it's there. Every now and then I feel a microwave, or high amperage power cable.

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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was wondering why there's nose pads; but looking closer I think there's a pin sticking out of each lense that gets inserted into the implanted nose bridge making a hinge of sorts. (instead of a screw) The lenses are held firmly in two axis; but can rotate up/down to rest on the nose pads, while being removable.

I'd be worried about bumping/catching them on anything and ripping that piercing/implant out too, but I don't think magnets would be strong enough to stop them moving around with any sort of g-forces.

As someone who sleeps face down quite a bit, I'd never try this. It would definitely drive me nuts just trying sleep with that bridge in, plus it would get snagged on bedding/clothes/towels/etc.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Oh no, to me this is only a hypothetical idea. I'd never sleep with such a piercing thingy either.

But you do get the almost neat idea of daily wear right?

Hell I dunno..

[–] uhmbah@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

All the reasons listed here aside, for this eyeglass apparatus pierced through the bridge of the nose.

Tell me that you can romantically kiss your significant other with this trailer hitch looking apparatus between their eyes.

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[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can't wait to grab my screwdriver and unbolt my glasses from my face before I shower.

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[–] figjam@midwest.social 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is how you rip a pillowcase

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[–] Zomg@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah idk man. I don't think this is it...

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Looks cool but feels like it would be a little... flimsy? Wouldn't the lenses being attached like that exert quite a significant amount of leverage on a single fixed point? Feels like they would bob as you move wouldn't they?

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[–] FeloniousPunk@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

And not really practical, tbh. Anytime you move your eyebrows or change your expression, the lenses would move, changing the focus of your vision.

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Good question, I don't have any piercings to even know 🤷‍♂️

[–] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Ok, off-topic, kinda, but I just remembered that I saw a Google Glass on the wild. I don’t if it was THE Google Glass, but I found very neat. It was a guy that seemed to be paralyzed from the neck down. His chair was controlled by small movement he made with his head. There was a thing that looked like a straw going near his mouth and a smartphone attached to the chair. I wanted to ask what he was seeing through the Glass, but I didn’t.

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