Próspera was supposed to be a privatized, Silicon Valley-funded paradise — but it’s a hard sell for the neighbors.

But where the business inducements enter unprecedented terrain is health and safety regulation. Próspera won’t impose rules so much as curate prix fixe and à la carte menus of rules.

Delgado has held talks with a controversial gene-therapy startup, Minicircle, to open a clinic in Próspera. It will be funded by a “network of crypto investors,” according to its CEO, Machiavelli Davis. Davis runs in biohacking circles, a set best known for self-administering untested gene therapies.

    • Florn [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      No idea, never had them. Because electrical current generates a magnetic field, they let you "feel" the electrical current by tugging on your fingertips as the magnetic fields interact.

    • disco [any]
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      3 years ago

      Most magnetic fields you encounter would make the magnet vibrate at various intensities rather than just pulling on it, so the sensation was akin to being able to touch magnetic fields.