{"id":33465,"date":"2017-01-14T12:43:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T20:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/body-pierced-gadget-turns-you-into-a-human-compass"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:57:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:57:33","slug":"body-pierced-gadget-turns-you-into-a-human-compass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/body-pierced-gadget-turns-you-into-a-human-compass","title":{"rendered":"Body-Pierced Gadget Turns You Into a Human Compass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/body-pierced-gadget-turns-you-into-a-human-compass.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Liviu Babitz is not content waiting around for evolution to improve upon his human form. Like other transhumanists, Babitz believes that science and technology can take a person\u2019s intelligence, physical performance and psychological state to the next level, all in less than the span of a single lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, he helped develop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyborgnest.net\/north-sense\" target=\"_blank\">North Sense<\/a>, a small silicone gadget that detects magnetic north. This is not a GPS device, nor a tracker. It\u2019s not even connected to the Internet nor any other network. This is a new sensory organ designed to be pierced to a person\u2019s body and vibrate each time the wearer faces magnetic north.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is that over time, the brain will assimilate the vibration into the everyday human experience, enhancing it. That will open a person up to a world that exists beyond his or her own current capabilities.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seeker.com\/body-pierced-gadget-turns-you-into-a-human-compass-2191386447.html?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=587a753204d3014a79df162c&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook\">http:\/\/www.seeker.com\/body-pierced-gadget-turns-you-into-a-h...e=facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liviu Babitz is not content waiting around for evolution to improve upon his human form. Like other transhumanists, Babitz believes that science and technology can take a person\u2019s intelligence, physical performance and psychological state to the next level, all in less than the span of a single lifetime. To that end, he helped develop North [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385,418,47,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-internet","category-neuroscience","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59141,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33465\/revisions\/59141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}