Humans do have a compass in the nose, it was in the original specification, and each unit does have the physical hardware.

However, our Marketing guys had an idea to increase the product lifecycle and revenues, they got us to disable the compass on the firmware of the Human-Unit, so we can sell "upgrades" later on providing this functionality.

We hope to be able to provide this upgrade as soon as our beancounters can decide how much the upgrade should cost should be for each unit.

Anyone got a horseshoe? =)

Interesting. I wonder how this might be related to incidents of headaches or uncomfortableness of people who live near power lines or other large sources of VLF and ELF radiation. Additionally, it might explain why some people can "hear" an electrical current when there is no actual sound waves or other indicator of conduction.

Talk about an odd body!

When I was none or ten years old pencils were still in common use in schools <s> and several of us discovered that if a sharpened pencil is moved point first towards the bridge of the nose (don't try this at home kids!) a funny buzzing feeling was experienced. Grown-ups who were asked about this denied feeling anything and suggested the pencil was touching the fine hairs on the skin, but the effect could be felt with the pencil further away than that.

AndyD

So now I'm wondering if wearing glasses, or glasses with small magnets on them like the ones I wear, have any effect upon this magnetic capability? does proximity to metal affect the ability to understand direction? Just curious...