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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 newswasboring »

bovermyer wrote: post #36
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.

You're focusing solely on the content. My abject hatred of TikTok stems from who controls it.

Weird, Bytedance has not done anything, to my knowledge, worse (or even better) than other big companies in consumer software space. Do you also not use Instagram? What about google or YouTube? They have done some pretty shady stuff. Or oculus VR? PayPal/stripe? All these companies have done extremely shady stuff, it's impossible to be at the top of any of these markets without being shady.

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

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Post by GistNoesis »

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...

Maybe you don't need a battery and can go with wireless power transmission.

A scaled-up version of this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ3K0suY1Dc

To provide more power to the led you probably need a bigger coil inside the eye, it should work if you hide the induction transmission loop inside a hat.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

flak48 wrote: post #9
sudhirj wrote: post #5

Where does the heat go? That seems like a couple watts at least.

> Does it get warm? > Brian S (Creator): Nope not at all. LED's do not emit much heat and the Titanium body of the eye offers great heat shielding from any heat emitted. [ https://www.tiktok.com/@bsmachinist/video/713267837541158430... ]

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

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Post by LeifCarrotson »

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.

A low-power laser pointer would still be very interesting and perfectly safe. Star Trek/X-men/Superman/Star Wars dreams of stunning enemies with a beam of light from your eyes, there's no to have power levels that can light matches, pop balloons, or otherwise cause destruction.

One cool use, IMO, would be a time of flight distance-measuring laser: With only a single working eye, OP lacks binocular vision for distance measuring. With the equivalent to a Bushnell rangefinder, they could stare at an object, blink twice, and hear a tiny voice literally in their head say "37.84 meters".

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

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Post by samsari »

bovermyer wrote: post #36
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.

You're focusing solely on the content. My abject hatred of TikTok stems from who controls it.

>abject hatred

Well, thank goodness we're all managing to retain some perspective and not just descending into performative melodrama.

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

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Post by newswasboring »

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.

I will have to completely disagree on this one. The amount of excel I've learnt from my TikTok fyp is genuinely unprecedented in my life. It feels like passive learning because they appear between my other interests like history or comedy. Specially stuff like archeology is specially condusive to this format.

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

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Post by hutzlibu »

nigerianbrince wrote: post #35
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...

> Putting a battery inside your eye socket seems incredibly risky to me, though We already do this with pacemakers

And it is risky, but it beats the alternative.

Whether it is worth it for a cool gadget, is another question.

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Post by cogman10 »

nigerianbrince wrote: post #35
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...

> Putting a battery inside your eye socket seems incredibly risky to me, though We already do this with pacemakers

Not the same thing and we don't really do that.

Pacemakers are typically lithium iodide which do not have the same risk of uncontrolled burning (that's the nickel variety).

But also, the pacemaker sits outside the body with probes going inside. You'd not want another surgery just to change a battery.

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