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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 LanceKagar »

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.

And certainly burn the inside wall of the eyelid when closed and/or blinking.

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

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

cogman10 wrote: post #50
nigerianbrince wrote: post #35

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> 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.

But then this one could be lithium iodide too. A replacement eye can also be replaced more easily.

Anyway, your statement about the pacemaker sitting outside the body with probes going inside is not correct; maybe it once was, but that was decades ago.

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

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Post by UncleMeat »

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

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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.

Short video is a different medium. Like it or not, TikTok is encouraging creation of new culture via its particular creation tools.

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

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Post by mauvehaus »

cogman10 wrote: post #50
nigerianbrince wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Pacemakers and implanted defibrillators are both, uh, implanted inside your body. Typically they stick them in the front side of your left shoulder. They run the leads into a vein (or artery) and anchor them into the wall of the heart.

They can implant basically under the fat layer or under the pectoral muscle. Beneath the fat layer is easier both from a surgery and recovery standpoint, but less secure.

The downside of that is that it's possible for the device to flip over. They usually try to avoid securing the device to anything because that can lead to discomfort or pain if the device wants to move around, but they can if they have to.

And yes, they do have to repeat surgery to replace the device when the battery gets low. The leads AIUI are usually a lifetime part (hopefully for all the right reasons). For defibrillators, battery life will be maximized if the device doesn't have to deliver shocks and can stick to just pacing. It turns out if they implant a defibrillator, you get a pacemaker for free.

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

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Post by UncleMeat »

newswasboring wrote: post #41
bovermyer wrote: post #36

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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.

Bytedance's payout to creators is much lower than YouTube's and their content-moderation has been more harmful to people who are poor, queer, or not traditionally attractive than competing platforms.

These probably aren't the top of the complaint list for most social media and content distribution platforms so I'm not saying these are reasons to consider Bytedance in a different category than Google or Facebook but they are worth knowing about.

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

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Post by nimbius »

icemelt8 wrote: post #8

The repulsion hackernews crowd will face while opening TikTok.

nonsense. for those who dont care to run tiktok ive written an ephemeral microservice driven with an AWS lambda, rust enabled, react framwork that uses an intuitive haskell based dockerless rootless console interface for the API i created out of a go based esolang implementation of the Turing complete driver for TikTok included in the 7.7 Linux kernel I built a ruby on rails time machine to travel into the future and clone using my custom built git plugin for mercurial on AS400.

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

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Post by boringg »

UncleMeat wrote: post #64
WastingMyTime89 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Short video is a different medium. Like it or not, TikTok is encouraging creation of new culture via its particular creation tools.

While damaging peoples ability to have an attention station.

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

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Post by wingspar »

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.

Wouldn’t it burn your eyelid too, from the inside?
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