New Ford patent holds items in place in truck bed

[Mik]

Selectively activated magnets.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/ford-s-new-patent-could-be-a-solution-to-an-age-old-truck-bed-problem/ar-AATl832?ocid=msedgntp

[mark]

Will it fuck with people that have pace makers?

[Mik]

Good question. Induction ranges do.

[George K]

@mik said in New Ford patent holds items in place in truck bed:

Good question. Induction ranges do.

I looked that up, because I'd not read that before. One study showed that it can be a problem if the pacemaker is unipolar (where the cathode is at the tip of the wire, and the anode is the pacemaker box itself). The long distance between wire and box can, if you will, act like an antenna, picking up extraneous signals.

In the last 25 years that I was working, I don't think I ever saw a unipolar pacemaker implanted, though I'm sure there are still a lot of them out there.

Currently almost all implanted pacemakers are bipolar, with anode and cathode being close to each other at the tip of the wire.