20 euros. Gotta keep the city afloat ya know.
âŹ20, well that will help pay for some snow plough fuel for the upcoming winter.
Next time to save you the hassle, and money, maybe consider a pair of these
but I think they are the V1
Maybe go for the V2 (Colour)
Yep, and conversely, I suspect other Flex-series implants would be similarly unimpressive. Maybe those with copper wire coils would be a bit more visible, like the blinkies on my doNExTâŚ
With a cellphone? 
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Hm, so my theory was right⌠good to know
And veeeery interesting, I wasnât expecting the flexnext to be so transparentâŚ
I thought the aluminum planar antenna would be very visible, since aluminum is supposed to have a high radiodensity. I guess the foil is just too thin.
Iâm surprised I donât see the chip either, even though itâs very small.
I suspect the machineâs âbrightnessâ was tuned to best reveal bony things. It sure did that. Too bad thatâs not what I wanted to seeâŚ
Say Backpackingvet, you wouldnât have a buddy at the radiology department who could tell us what was done wrong here would you? Or maybe confirm that an x-ray just isnât the right tool for that particular job?
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Even though there is little to see, I like the x-rays - I didnât imagine it to be that invisible!
And the final medical conclusion to the buildup is collagen fibres? Hm, okay - thatâs not spectacular 
But, most important, itâs also not dangerous, and it might indeed stop when everything is covered. Hope you scared your implant enough with all these procedures (especially threatening it with a biopsy!) so that it will behave itself from now on 
Actually, I donât think that - my power-button silicone implant has a hole in the middle as well, and my body is totally unimpressed by that 
Maybe there was a little infection in Roscoâs doNExT, just a tiny one, so it wasnât noticeable but led to a stronger-than-usual reaction of his bodyâŚ
Also, hematoma/lymphoma (blood pockets/lymph buildup) can cause this reaction.
I can tell you with absolute certainty that there has been no infection, or even inflammation in or around the pocket, save for some redness around the stitches while they were there.
Well, right after the stitches were taken out, the fluid buildup started. But it was really low-grade - just a little âwateryâ to the touch, is all. It might have been that, but then explain this: the last flare-up occurred several hours after I had drained the pocket completely this week-end.
Speaking of which, it stayed almost completely dry today - even after much probing and jiggling from the doctor this morning. I didnât limit my activities or anything, but it hasnât filled back up. It still looks a lot less prominent that it used to before this week-endâs stay-in-the-couch marathon. And the skin pull has almost completely gone away.
This is starting to look like the home stretch at last. Itâll soon be time to switch to the fun part of this whole thing: the projects! Iâve been putting them off for far too long and Iâm itching to get started.
and I most certainly will, donât you worry none.
How so? There are infections that are completely unnoticable - no visible redness, no pain, no visible swelling. I just think something must have motivated your body to do what it did, and the âthis is bad, letâs cover it in anything we can getâ-behaviour is usually the reaction to something not going perfectly right
Iâm certain because 1/ I didnât feel no heat, redness, itching or anything. Yet as you say, it might be undetectable. But mostly because 2/ for a full week, nothing happened. Things started to go spiral out of control exactly 30 minutes after the stitches were pulled out. Still no sign of infection anywhere near the stitch holes - and my piercer used generous doses of disinfectant, and sterile gloves, and the whole nine yards. And so did I when I cared for it.
Iâm fairly sure it has something to do with the stitches alright, especially considering the biting edge of the implant is exactly behind the scar line - unfortunate outcome. But Iâm pretty sure no infection occurred. Iâd have known.
So most x-ray machines are set to a specific exposure setting that is meant to properly capture dense objects like bone. Some do not have any settable exposure at all.
Itâs a bummer you canât get the CD though⌠you can do some fun stuff with your images. Hereâs the content of my image record CD;
Hereâs the actual GearView exe running;
The measurement tool is very accurate;
Here is my flexNT which has slid slightly off my metacarpal bone actually;
There are different modes that let you pick out details and features;
Actually thatâs pretty cool⌠my 2017 x-ray in ârainbow visionââŚ
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I have the same files - and same application - on the CD they gave me. But I canât enhance what isnât there, sadly.
Oh yeah, and I did get a CD - I had the option to pay extra for it, so I did.
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Looks like a payment conversion.
It just occurred to me, if I were to post in the crazy thread that Iâve been implanted against my will, Amal would tell me to get an x-ray to see for myself that there ainât nothing there, and he would be spot on
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That is the hastily made hand wound coil with a P40 SmartMX chip attached⌠itâs the first VivoKey prototype that went into my arm in 09/2016 which was supposed to be a 30 day temporary proof of concept for the CeBIT show in Hannover Germany that yearâŚ
You can see the bandage still on my arm;
If you think youâve been waiting patiently for the fricken Apex⌠hahah⌠man⌠get in line.
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Legend.
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âSupposedâ? As in, itâs still there?
Yep. Still use it nearly every day for OTP code gen too⌠but I donât dare do any app management on it. The P40 has a garbage collection bug that bricks the chip if the field gets shitty during garbage collection. Thus I was told to wait for the P60 as that would solve everything⌠well we waited nearly 2 years⌠then of course we discover through the beta program that chip also has a very similar bug and bricks if the field gets shitty during app management ⌠then we were told to wait for the P71 as that would solve everything⌠so we waited 2 years⌠notice a pattern here? Anyway weâve got P71 chips with baseline config and tested the shit out of them⌠they seem rock solid and actually have several advantages over the P60⌠but we still donât have chips with the customized ROM mask that Fidesmo worked on with NXP for basically the last year⌠once we have those we will test the ever-loving shit out of them before we even make mention we have them.
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Interesting. Just when I thought implant development was easy peasyâŚ