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Jason Traeger’s Skull Implants

Hey Everyone,

I know I’ve been away for a while, although I’m back to discuss something that has gained international recognition! Over the past few weeks, I have noticed photographs across the internet featuring extreme forms of body modification including silicone and subdermal implants. In 2012, I decided to write a blog post in regards to body modification and skull implants. I discovered a photograph through the internet featuring at least two skull implants that were inserted into the back of a person’s hand. At first, I was quite shocked and the thought of having these silicone objects inserted beneath the skin just sounds excruciating to say the least.

It has been quite difficult to find the name of the person, although there are other sources on the Internet that relate these skull implants to Jason Traeger, although there is limited information in regards to this particular image. In my previous post, I also discovered a photograph of a person with a skull implanted into the front of his chest.

Implants by Steve Haworth in Samppa Von Cyborg’s Chest –  Shannon Larratt, BME

I honestly find the stitches quite disturbing and the skull does appear sinister; I have noticed that this particular implant has become an area of interest and the photograph has circulated across the internet including blogs as well as other social media sites. I decided to take a closer look at the implants and to my surprise, I have realised that the skull is place inside a cross, I have never noticed this before!

According to Shannon Larratt from BME, these implants were created by Steve Haworth who has inserted them into the chest of Samppa Von Cyborg, a Finnish artist whose work specialises in body modification. In reference to Cyborg’s Facebook page, the artist currently works within within the UK as well as other countries around the world.

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Mark Doerksen, Concordia University

Table of Contents

Chapter One: An Introduction to Grinders

Chapter Two: Pre-emptive Body Enhancement

Chapter Three: Grand Theft Future

Chapter Four: The Mediation Machine: Scavengers, Scrapheaps, and Subterfuge

Chapter Five: Killing Love: Modifying the Depth of Senses

Chapter Six: Tricknology: On the Question of Magnetic Senses

Chapter Seven: RFID Cyb/organs:Distributed Memory, Identification, and the

User-friendly Implant

Chapter Eight: Platform Bodies: The Echo and the Daemon

Chapter Nine: Conclusion

* This work is a revised version of the thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Social and CulturalAnalysis) in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal in July 2018. The supervisory committee consisted of Jorgen Hansen (Principal Supervisor), Bart Simon, and David Howes.

Chapter One

An Introduction to Grinders

The neighbourhood is a contract police zone, overrun by pillheads. Street graffiti preaches, “Not my future,” “You owe me a flying car,” and “Where’s my fucking jet pack.” A passerby remarks, “The future is bullshit. The future hasn’t changed in ten years. It’s never come, and I never want it to.” Inside the nearby Shank Valentine bar, a recently deceased bloody corpse is spread across a grimy table. A man wearing overalls with surgeon’s tools peeking out of the pockets takes a drink and says, “The kid’s grind went bad. Shock stopped his heart. Couldn’t restart it.” The Shank Valentine is a grinder bar. While everyone else waits for the future they think they’re owed, grinders work together to modify their bodies, assimilating with technology to make themselves better. They have eyeball implants that keep track of their friends, electronic pills that monitor their health, and implanted computer chips that facilitate invisible communication. These enhanced senses are not shared by e

I recently got a comment on my post Body Hacking: My Magnet Implant that I wanted to share. It comes from a reader who is also named Dan:

I know a lot of people really like these things and that’s cool but I thought it would be informative to have a dissenting view (as far as I can tell, I’m the only guy on the net who doesn’t love this thing). I got one of these 6 months ago. It was really cool at first but the novelty has since worn off. A side effect of the implant is that I now DESPISE all things magnetic (you have no idea how many magnets are in a damn iMac! and guitar amps are HELL!).

I also really don’t care about feeling magnetic fields any more. Seriously, it’s just annoying at this point. Hurray! (sic) My finger buzzes when I turn on the microwave. You no doubt read that “an engineer can use it to see if a wire is live…” Well yeah but most live wires that need testing don’t have current going through them so you can’t feel those. Although I have tried, I haven’t found any practical application for Plutarch (yeah, it has a name).

FYI you can’t feel current off regular 120v power cords, only adapters which was a total bummer for me. Also, mine migrated to the middle of my finger and it hurts to put any pressure on it so stuff like rock climbing is out for me for now – I think I am an outlier [with regard to] the magnet moving. If you really want one then go nuts, it’s pretty consequence-free and it really is fun for a while and the sixth sense really is a unique experience.

P.S. don’t mention the magnet on a first date

I agree with about 90 percent of this comment. As with anything, the novelty of a magnet implant will eventually wear off and the magnet can be really annoying around other magnets. I have to hold my iPad mini in a certain way to avoid messing with my magnet and I’m constantly finding new things that annoy me by messing with my magnet.

Also, I still haven’t personally found a practical rea

What would you do to gain a sixth sense? Some of us would submit to a minor surgical procedure where a magnet is implanted under the skin. While this isn’t the first time magnet implants have been mentioned here on Hackaday, [The Thought Emporium] did a phenomenal job of gathering the scattered data from blogs, forum posts, and personal experimentation into a short video which can be seen after the break.

As [The Thought Emporium] explains in more eloquent detail, a magnet under the skin allows the implantee to gain a permanent sense of strong magnetic fields. Implantation in a fingertip is most common because nerve density is high and probing is possible. Ear implants are the next most useful because oscillating magnetic fields can be translated to sound.

For some, this is merely a parlor trick. Lifting paper clips and messing with a compass are great fun. Can magnet implants be more than whimsical baubles?

I would like to tell about my magnet which has been implanted for three years. As an automation engineer, I am tasked with trouble-shooting electrical panels. This is often a laborious task which involves probing with a multi-meter and staring back-and-forth at schematics.

When asked to diagnose a troublesome panel for a band-saw by some coworkers, I decided to use my magnet as a diagnostic tool first since it was a five minute walk to my meter. Lo and behold, after a wave of my hand, I noticed that the transformer wasn’t emitting a large field, like I would expect. I traced that back to a tripped circuit breaker, which three other engineers had missed, and flipped it. The machine restarted normal operation after thirty seconds instead of thirty minutes.

My magnet is literally part of me and a valuable tool of my trade.

[The Thought Emporium] has been mentioned here for their guide to making graphene. You can find more biohacking at Cyberpunk Yourself or see a wildly different application of body-mounted magnets.