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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 wruza »

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.

Do most of the videos that you watch there have such (subjectively) awful arrangement? I have no tiktok account, and am no hater, but I wouldn’t follow content like this either. Cannot imagine myself receiving a notification, watching $subj and thinking “this was a good one”.

I mean it’s a cool idea and tech spirit, but the form… raised eyebrows

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

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Post by boringg »

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.

Add more fuel to the fire --> https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-10-20/beh...

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

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Post by bombolo »

Semaphor wrote: post #20
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.

It's extra fun when they detect wrong and drop you on the ground.

(got one)

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

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Post by srfvtgb »

nimbius wrote: post #67
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…

As long as it doesn't have the robotic text-to-speech that seems to be on every TikTok video.

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

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Post by dylan604 »

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.

With great powers comes great responsibility.

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

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Post by dymk »

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... ]

LEDs of a couple of watts do emit a noticeable amount of heat.

Being titanium doesn’t mean anything - here the heat has to go somewhere eventually. Either out of the front of the eye where it’s “uninsulated” or it’ll get hot enough internally that the body will get warm.

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

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Post by dylan604 »

LeifCarrotson wrote: post #45
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.

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…

It would need to be an IR laser, or the jig is up for being a useful bar trick.

Heck, the old skool 1st/2nd ACs in the camera department would kill for this. No need to "pull tape" any more.

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

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Post by qikInNdOutReply »

So, i hope this is lightweight, cause heave "glass" eyes deform the skull over time, leading to eyesocket drop. One of the many reasons that becoming a cyborg aint easy.

But if it was a lightweight memory device with wireless connection to all devices of mine nearby. This would be neat

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

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Post by dylan604 »

wingspar wrote: post #70
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.

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

If you're eyelids are closed, you can't be looking at what your aiming. Your chances of hitting the target increase infinitely if you keep your eyes open.

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

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Post by sonusario »

wingspar wrote: post #70
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.

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

Try not to blink challenge?
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