# CyborgNest

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**CyborgNest Ltd** is a company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. The start-up sells sensory enhancement technology and created a [wearable](/source/Wearable_technology) [haptic](/source/Haptic_technology) [compass](/source/Compass) called **NorthSense**, inspired by the NorthPaw, an earlier haptic compass made by the now-defunct Sensebridge. The device was released in 2017 to allow wearers to sense the [Earth's magnetic field](/source/Earth's_magnetic_field). It is unclear whether humans do, or did, possess this sense.[1]

## Devices

### NorthSense

In 2017, CyborgNest released the *NorthSense*, a miniaturized [circuit board](/source/Circuit_board) with over 200 components, with a [silicone](/source/Silicone) sleeve. The device was attached to the wearer's chest via steel piercings, and vibrated when the wearer faced [magnetic north](/source/North_magnetic_pole).[2]

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](/source/Sensory_substitution) Devices (SSD), created by neuroscientist [Paul Bach-y-Rita](/source/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](/source/Sensory_augmentation) technology.[12][13][14]

### Sentero

CyborgNest ran an [Indiegogo](/source/Indiegogo) crowdfunding campaign for the *Sentero* (presale) in July 2020 where crowdfunders raised approximately £50,000. Sentero was allegedly delivered to 50 of its crowdfunders, however it was never officially released and production has been cancelled. Backers were offered a refund.

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

- [Sensory substitution](/source/Sensory_substitution)
- [Human enhancement](/source/Human_enhancement)
- [Body hacking](/source/Body_hacking)
- [Neil Harbisson](/source/Neil_Harbisson)
- [Moon Ribas](/source/Moon_Ribas)
- [Posthumanism](/source/Posthumanism)
- [Extended mind thesis](/source/Extended_mind_thesis)

## References

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1. ["Science | AAAS"](https://www.science.orgnull/?doi=10.1126%2Fscience&publicationCode=science). *Science*. Retrieved 2022-05-16.[dead link]

1. Frost, Natasha (16 October 2018). ["Real-life cyborgs change their brains by enhancing their bodies"](https://qz.com/1424235/these-real-life-cyborgs-are-changing-their-brains-by-enhancing-their-bodies/). *Quartz*. Retrieved 2022-05-16.

1. ["North Sense Is Step One On Your Path To Becoming A Real-Life Cyborg"](https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/cyborg-north-sense/). *Digital Trends*. 2016-08-09. Retrieved 2022-05-16.

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1. Bach-Y-Rita, Paul (2006-01-12). ["Tactile Sensory Substitution Studies"](http://doi.wiley.com/10.1196/annals.1305.006). *Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences*. **1013** (1): 83–91. [doi:10.1196/annals.1305.006](https://doi.org/10.1196/annals.1305.006). [PMID 15194608](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15194608). [S2CID 44624575](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:44624575)

1. 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](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0748-7711). [PMID 10220221](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10220221)

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