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I have tried:
Wearing a vibrating compass anklet for a week. It improved my navigational skills tremendously. I have low income, but I would definitely buy one if I could afford it.
Listening to a 60 bpm metronome on a Bluetooth earpiece for a week (excluding showers). I got used to the sound relatively quickly, but I most definitely did not acquire an absolute sense of time. However, I noticed that during boring activities such as filling out paperwork, the ticking itself seems to slow down.
I will try:
Did you find the navigational skills lingered when you were in the same places (i.e. if you wore it around campus, you would then have a good map of campus) or did the improvement in skill disappear when you stopped wearing it?
The skills lingered, and for some amount of time, I was able to "feel" where the compass would be pointing in many places I visited while wearing the anklet.
From memory, I'm still able to tell the general direction of the magnetic north in many places.
I would love to buy an already assembled anklet or belt vibrating compass that can fit both a child and adult for <$200.
I think the pre-assembled NorthPaw is available for $199 + shipping.
I found a NorthPaw for ~$150, but it was an unassembled kit. It seems likely you could find someone willing to do the assembly for $50 (Smith has an engineering school).
There's a kit on thinkgeek, but it's not already assembled and it's super ugly.
Wasn't there something like that on Kickstarter?
I bought a NorthPaw last year but got very little out of it. I wondered if perhaps my local environment is simply not navigationally challenging enough; what sort of place were you using your haptic compass?
Mainly in the city of Edinburgh, HW campus and the Lothians. It worked well inside college buildings with non-trivial layouts as well.
Important question: do you usually travel by car? I can't drive, so my main methods of transportation were public transport and walking.
I wonder: after sufficient adaptation to a rate-of-time sense, could useful mental effects be produced by adjusting the scale?
I think time sense is best developed via setting intention.
If you set down to meditate, instead of using a timer you can set the goal of meditating for 20 minutes. That skill is trainable and with time you can get +1/-1.
It would also be interesting to couple on of those sleep stage based alarm clocks with a query for a guess of the current time when you awake.
Interesting. I don't meditate, but I'll try this in other contexts (probably in tasks related to giving talks) and see how my time sense improves.
I can understand the compass part, it can be very useful and save your life onetime, but time-sense? For what the heck you might need this? In peoples world people wear watches or have timers on their smartphones, and in the world there's no people there's no time
In my case, the answer is simple: tutoring, teaching and lecturing. The feedback of watches and timers is completely inadequate: I can't "profile", I can't adjust my tempo in real time, et c.
Not to say that I prefer to have this information subconsciously. The information from the compass anklet was far more useful (and efficient) than glancing at my smartphone's compass every second would have been.
Navigo will cost $21
see: https://www.quirky.com/products/636-Navigo-Compass-Bracelet/timeline
They announced today that they're not making it (yet), though.