Company:CyborgNest

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Short description: Human enhancement company
CyborgNest Ltd.
IndustrySensory Augmentation, Human Enhancement, Haptic Technology, Wearables
Founded2017
FounderLiviu Babitz, Olivier de Simone, Scott Cohen
HeadquartersLondon, UK
Websitehttp://www.cyborgnest.net

CyborgNest Ltd was a wearable start-up company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. The start-up created a wearable which used haptic technology (vibrations) to convey information to the wearer called NorthSense. The device was released in 2017 to connect wearers to the Earth's magnetic field.

NorthSense

In 2017 CyborgNest released the NorthSense, a miniaturized circuit board with over 200 components, with a silicone sleeve. The device was attached to the wearer's chest via steel piercings, and indicated when the wearer faced magnetic north, via a vibration. The device was inspired by a previous wearable called NorthPaw created by Sensebridge. It is unclear whether humans do, or did, possess this sense,[1][2]

NorthSense 2017. A miniature circuit board in a silicone sleeve, with steel piercings to attach to the wearers' body.

The device was made in a production batch of 400 units. NorthSense was documented in some technology articles.[3][4][5]

The technology follows the principles of Sensory Substitution Devices (SSD), created by neuroscientist Paul Bach-y-Rita in the 1960s. SSDs are devices which translate one sense into another in order to compensate for an impaired sense.[6][7][8] NorthSense also builds on the research of other similar haptics devices, such as the naviBelt (previously feelspace belt),[9] which gives directional information through haptic motors around the wearer's waist.[10][11] NorthSense was created using SSD principles but as a non-therapeutic device (not for medical use), transmitting non-human sensory information (the Earth's magnetic field), and therefore it is categorised as a ‘sensory augmentation’ technology.[12][13][14]

Controversies

Sentero

CyborgNest ran an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for the Sentero (presale) in July 2020 where crowdfunders raised approximately £50,000. Sentero was allegedely delivered to 50 of its crowdfunders, however it was never officially released and production has now been indefinitely delayed. Sentero was also promised as a "third party" release, or the contributors were offered an eventual refund, though to date that has not been given to anyone.

Like the NorthSense, Sentero claimed that it would allow wearers to haptically feel the Earth's magnetic field (North), and also added the ability to 'sense' the direction of places and people, and feel their heartbeat.[15][16][17][18][19]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Science | AAAS" (in en). https://www.science.orgnull/?doi=10.1126%2Fscience&publicationCode=science. [yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]
  2. ↑ Yirka, Bob; Phys.org. "Possible evidence of human ability to detect Earth's magnetic field found" (in en). https://phys.org/news/2016-06-evidence-human-ability-earth-magnetic.html. 
  3. ↑ Frost, Natasha (16 October 2018). "Real-life cyborgs change their brains by enhancing their bodies" (in en). https://qz.com/1424235/these-real-life-cyborgs-are-changing-their-brains-by-enhancing-their-bodies/. 
  4. ↑ "North Sense Is Step One On Your Path To Becoming A Real-Life Cyborg" (in en). 2016-08-09. https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/cyborg-north-sense/. 
  5. ↑ "Leben mit einem neuen Sinn - Erfahrungsbericht" (in en). https://de.linkedin.com/pulse/leben-mit-einem-neuen-sinn-erfahrungsbericht--1e. 
  6. ↑ Bach-Y-Rita, Paul (2006-01-12). "Tactile Sensory Substitution Studies" (in en). Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1013 (1): 83–91. doi:10.1196/annals.1305.006. PMID 15194608. http://doi.wiley.com/10.1196/annals.1305.006. 
  7. ↑ Bach-y-Rita, P.; Kaczmarek, K. A.; Tyler, M. E.; Garcia-Lara, J. (October 1998). "Form perception with a 49-point electrotactile stimulus array on the tongue: a technical note". Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development 35 (4): 427–430. ISSN 0748-7711. PMID 10220221. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10220221/. 
  8. ↑ Bach-y-Rita, Paul; W. Kercel, Stephen (2003-12-01). "Sensory substitution and the human–machine interface" (in en). Trends in Cognitive Sciences 7 (12): 541–546. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2003.10.013. ISSN 1364-6613. PMID 14643370. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661303002900. 
  9. ↑ "feelSpace – feelSpace naviGürtel" (in en-US). https://feelspace.de/en/. 
  10. ↑ Nagel, Saskia K; Carl, Christine; Kringe, Tobias; Märtin, Robert; König, Peter (2005-12-01). "Beyond sensory substitution—learning the sixth sense". Journal of Neural Engineering 2 (4): R13–R26. doi:10.1088/1741-2560/2/4/R02. ISSN 1741-2560. PMID 16317228. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-2560/2/4/R02. 
  11. ↑ König, Sabine U.; Schumann, Frank; Keyser, Johannes; Goeke, Caspar; Krause, Carina; Wache, Susan; Lytochkin, Aleksey; Ebert, Manuel et al. (2016-12-13). "Learning New Sensorimotor Contingencies: Effects of Long-Term Use of Sensory Augmentation on the Brain and Conscious Perception" (in en). PLOS ONE 11 (12): e0166647. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0166647. ISSN 1932-6203. PMID 27959914. Bibcode: 2016PLoSO..1166647K. 
  12. ↑ Kaspar, Kai; König, Sabine; Schwandt, Jessika; König, Peter (2014-08-01). "The experience of new sensorimotor contingencies by sensory augmentation" (in en). Consciousness and Cognition 28 (100): 47–63. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2014.06.006. ISSN 1053-8100. PMID 25038534. 
  13. ↑ Shachar, M.; Amir, Amedi (2014) (in en). Sensory Substitution and Augmentation - What's Happening. 
  14. ↑ Gauttier, Stéphanie (October 2019). "Enhancing oneself with an exosense: Learning from users' experiences" (in en). Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies 1 (4): 317–340. doi:10.1002/hbe2.174. ISSN 2578-1863. 
  15. ↑ "Becoming Cyborgs w/ Liviu Babitz" (in en-US). https://futurespodcast.net/episodes/33-liviubabitz. 
  16. ↑ (in en) #3 The influence of technology. Human enhancements from theory to reality - Matt Hayler, 2022-02-11, https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Aw3Lsk6ceXTzpAAM2uEnE, retrieved 2022-05-16 
  17. ↑ "NNN / Cyborgnest: redefining human senses" (in en). 3 May 2021. https://nextnature.net/magazine/story/2021/cyborgnest. 
  18. ↑ "Inside the broad (sometimes bizarre) world of biohacking" (in en-GB). 2021-04-25. http://wired.me/technology/the-great-biohack-future-human-performance/. 
  19. ↑ "Necsus | Inhabited stories: An enactive media archaeology of virtual reality storytelling". 19 June 2022. https://necsus-ejms.org/inhabited-stories-an-enactive-media-archaeology-of-virtual-reality-storytelling/. 



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