A young scientist from Australia has overtaken failure when he tried to invent a device that helps to avoid touching the face with your hands during the outbreak of coronavirus. In the end the man ended up in the hospital with magnets stuck in his nose.
27-year-old Dr. Daniel Reardon is a research fellow at the University of Swinburne in Melbourne, studying pulsars and gravitational waves. Reardon tried to invent a device that emits a signal that will not allow people to touch your face — which is a very important precaution during the outbreak of coronavirus.
«I had a part that detects the magnetic field. I thought if I build a circuit that could detect a magnetic field — we would put magnets on the wrist, issuing an alarm, if you brought the hand to her face too close. A little boring in isolation made me think about it.» — said the inventor.
Soon the scientist found that the electronic part that he used completed the chain when there was no magnetic field, writes the New York Post.
«I invented a necklace that is continuously buzzing, if you bring your hand close to the face.» says Reardon. «After I refused this idea, I was still a bit boring, and I continued to play with magnets.»
The scientist said that in the course of their «games» with the magnets, he attached two magnets to the earlobes, like earrings, and then the same is done with the nostrils. However, something went wrong: after Reardon joined the two magnets on the outside, those that were inside just melted together so he tried to use the remaining magnets to extract the other, insidiously stuck in my nose.
Reardon tried to pull the magnets, but he failed to reach them. Then he turned to Google, where I found an article about an 11 year old boy, caught in a similar situation. The solution was simple — use more magnets. It was necessary to hold the magnets on the outside of the nose to compensate for the cravings of those what’s inside.
«When I pulled down to extract the magnets, they fight, and I lost touch. And these two magnets in my left nostril, and the other was in the right. At this point I ran out of magnets.»
Reardon then tried to use the pliers to finally remove the magnets, however, and they soon became magnetized. Every time he brought the pliers to the nose, they react to the magnets in the nose and brought the scientist discomfort.
«My partner rushed me to the hospital where she works because I wanted to have all her colleagues laughed at me. The doctors thought it was pretty funny, commenting: «This is the trauma of isolation and boredom.»
Finally, the doctors manually freed the scientist from the torment of using anesthetic spray — although one of the magnets fell right into his throat.
«Could be a small problem if I swallowed it or breathed it, but fortunately, I was able to lean forward and cough up his… Needless to say I’ll never play with magnets.»
