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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 WastingMyTime89 »

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.

Short video is a terrible medium.

I am already on the fence regarding long videos. They are a rarely paying off time investment next to reading the equivalent article.

Short videos are an immediate no from me. It’s never worth the investment. Realistically if it could be written in a script fitting a TikTok video it’s not going to go deeply into anything.

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

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Post by thomastjeffery »

anamexis wrote: post #18
TeMPOraL wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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..

Safety monocle.

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

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Post by pluc »

Semaphor wrote: post #19
icemelt8 wrote: post #8

The repulsion hackernews crowd will face while opening TikTok.

I just followed a link to TikTok for the first time. It’s far better than twitter, kinda like YouTube but cleaner.

It actually renders most of the information you'd expect with JavaScript and Cookies disabled. Cannot say the same for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc. Just can't play the vid, but I can see the thumbnail.

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

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Post by Semaphor »

pluc wrote: post #23
Semaphor wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just followed a link to TikTok for the first time. It’s far better than twitter, kinda like YouTube but cleaner.

It actually renders most of the information you'd expect with JavaScript and Cookies disabled. Cannot say the same for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc. Just can't play the vid, but I can see the thumbnail.

While I don’t have first-party JS and Cookies disabled, I have everything third party disabled and had the same experience. Now that you mention it, that is actually extraordinary.

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

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Post by CabSauce »

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.

Or a sweet predator targeting system.

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

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Post by ycombigator »

WastingMyTime89 wrote: post #21
newswasboring wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Short video is a terrible medium. I am already on the fence regarding long videos. They are a rarely paying off time investment next to reading the equivalent article. Short videos are an immediate no from me. It’s never worth the investment. Realistically if it could be written in a script fitting a TikTok video it’s not going to go deeply into anything.

Depends.

If you are trying to show a repeatable process, whether that's just DIY or microbiology, a video is dramatically better than an article.

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