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A brief demonstration of my Titanium Cyborg Eye as a flashlight [video]

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Re: A brief demonstration of my Titanium Cyborg Eye as a flashlight [video]

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Post by Der_Einzige »

A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote: post #6

I talked with my social circle just the other day how our timeline is really a Cyberpunk timeline with only technology and body augments seemingly lagging behind. I am both excited and horrified, because that universe is pretty dark. I suppose I should be thanking our lucky stars we are not moving towards 40k universe.

This is correct. I tell all my friends to watch blade runner and related cyberpunk if they want an idea for what the future of AI is going to look like.

I really doubted for awhile that it would be so damn cyberpunk and so damn predictable. Than I saw stable diffusion and realized the "enhance" scene from blade runner was simply prophetic...

Re: A brief demonstration of my Titanium Cyborg Eye as a flashlight [video]

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Post by spuz »

ehnto wrote: post #4
jeroenhd wrote: post #2

That's a very creative way of spicing up a boring old glass eye! I imagine such "wearable" tech could also be the ultimate version of those snapchat glasses. Putting a battery inside your eye socket seems incredibly risky to me, though. Especially one that can power a bright light like this for a while...

He does mention that "safety is paramount" and that the light is at low power for now. I'm glad he's not just winging it.

Maybe not winging it but definitely eyeballing it.

Re: A brief demonstration of my Titanium Cyborg Eye as a flashlight [video]

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Post by TeMPOraL »

mckirk wrote: post #7
jeroenhd wrote: post #2

That's a very creative way of spicing up a boring old glass eye! I imagine such "wearable" tech could also be the ultimate version of those snapchat glasses. Putting a battery inside your eye socket seems incredibly risky to me, though. Especially one that can power a bright light like this for a while...

I wonder what power laserpointer you could fit in there without going overboard with the battery... Imagine being able to light matches by looking at them for a bit. On the other hand, every mirror would be a great chance to lose your other eye as well, so maybe disregard my ideas.

> On the other hand, every mirror would be a great chance to lose your other eye as well, so maybe disregard my ideas.

At those power levels? Probably every surface in general. A beam powerful enough to light a match or burn through a balloon is powerful enough for the diffuse reflection off a table or wall to blind you.

Re: A brief demonstration of my Titanium Cyborg Eye as a flashlight [video]

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Post by newswasboring »

icemelt8 wrote: post #8

The repulsion hackernews crowd will face while opening TikTok.

Why? I've been on HN forever and I'm a huge TikTok fan. I will never understand the outright rejection on TikTok, there are so many cool projects which produce TikTok devlogs. Not just that several niches which I don't see often enough on HN (like AI ethics, not just copy right stuff) have entire channels on TikTok.

Re: A brief demonstration of my Titanium Cyborg Eye as a flashlight [video]

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newswasboring wrote: post #15
icemelt8 wrote: post #8

The repulsion hackernews crowd will face while opening TikTok.

Why? I've been on HN forever and I'm a huge TikTok fan. I will never understand the outright rejection on TikTok, there are so many cool projects which produce TikTok devlogs. Not just that several niches which I don't see often enough on HN (like AI ethics, not just copy right stuff) have entire channels on TikTok.

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Re: A brief demonstration of my Titanium Cyborg Eye as a flashlight [video]

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Post by anamexis »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #14
mckirk wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder what power laserpointer you could fit in there without going overboard with the battery... Imagine being able to light matches by looking at them for a bit. On the other hand, every mirror would be a great chance to lose your other eye as well, so maybe disregard my ideas.

> On the other hand, every mirror would be a great chance to lose your other eye as well, so maybe disregard my ideas. At those power levels? Probably every surface in general. A beam powerful enough to light a match or burn through a balloon is powerful enough for the diffuse reflection off a table or wall to blind you.

You could just wear laser safety glasses.

Wait..

Re: A brief demonstration of my Titanium Cyborg Eye as a flashlight [video]

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Post by Semaphor »

A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote: post #6

I talked with my social circle just the other day how our timeline is really a Cyberpunk timeline with only technology and body augments seemingly lagging behind. I am both excited and horrified, because that universe is pretty dark. I suppose I should be thanking our lucky stars we are not moving towards 40k universe.

I’ve recently met an acquaintance with a bionic leg again. It detects if he’s walking forward or backward, climbing stairs, walking, or running. It only needs to be charged once or twice a week and works even on unstable, muddy ground.

Now granted, it’s a 6 figure device, but still, I’m really impressed whenever SotA body replacement parts come up.

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