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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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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?

It would have a blink sensor that turns it off when a blink is detected or it points at your nose or something, right?

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

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Honestly while a lithium battery might worry me I’d be more worried about heat dissapation. Of course the dude says it isn’t an issue, but still. I guess it might not matter much because the battery is so small that you’d be lucky to get more than a handful of minutes running that LED at max power. This is all speculation based on a 30 second video though.

> Honestly while a lithium battery might worry me I’d be more worried about heat dissapation. I mean...isn't it effectively water cooled?

You got plenty of water mass up in your cranium too!

All I know is my headlamp gets mighty hot when it is running at peak intensity. Like hard to touch levels of hotness.

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

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> 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.

Being titanium means it acts as a heat spreader and a buffer that can absorb and dissipate the small bursts of heat you might expect from brief flashlight use. Rather than the LED touching one spot in your eye socket (which would probably be a noticeable amount of heat even if not uncomfortable), the heat is spread over the entire titanium body.

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

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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.

Not much, laser diodes peak at 60-70% efficiency, which means 30% of that goes into heating the device. Altho short bursts, maybe ?

The other problem is that this small battery won't have that much current capacity

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

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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…

Wouldn't it be easier to use yottadb or some other MUMPS derivative instead zapping it onto an AS400 cloud?

Nah. That would induce significant overhead because of the distributed Blockchain systems. I think using zig with latent diffusion or some variation of GAN would do better.

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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.

And the reality is that different people learn best through different means. I can't stand video as a learning medium for software-related topics, but to each their own.

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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…

How many amp hours is the battery and what is the voltage? I’d assume 3.7v if it’s lithium ion…

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

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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 is like Twitter except only videos so you do not have to read, and all your behavior data goes more directly to the CCP instead of having to pass through Twitter servers first.

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

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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 also, the pacemaker sits outside the body with probes going inside.

This introduces an opening into the body that will almost certainly result in infection.

Probably much less risky to periodically change the battery than get the portal infected

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