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# things

![image: René Magritte 1936 https://www.wikiart.org/en/rene-magritte/philosopher-s-lamp-1936](/files/6mQojopEYmfjx5kexmEG)

General purpose, single directional, interfaces for our ears and eyes may be non-invasive (speakers, screens), minimally invasive (cochlear, retinal implants) or invasive (brain implants).

Initially, we’re cultivating use agnostic (general purpose), non-invasive, bi-directional interfaces which piggy back off our skin. Our initial things together may be ~~seen as~~ a sense organ which co-opts a patch of skin into a *peripheral nerve interface.*