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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 xeromal »

spookthesunset wrote: post #96
LeifCarrotson wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Might not even need a voice. I wonder if you could “tap into” the remaining bits of the optic nerve and send a signal that way. The signal would vary based on distance. Maybe simulate intensity of light or something. Would probably require some kind of crazy training for it to work. Plus I have no clue what I’m talking about!

Wow, you have me excited. That would be so neat.

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

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Post by tgsovlerkhgsel »

lrvick wrote: post #120
dang wrote: post #119

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Ok, we've changed to that from https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/ybisa1/th... . Thanks!

Why would you knowingly link directly to a source even more hostile to users?

Presumably because it's the original source. On desktop, both are similarly bearable, on mobile, TikTok is a bit more hostile this time, but I've seen reddit put up hard app-walls before.

(Both assumes you have an adblocker of course)

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

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Post by pnt12 »

dmd wrote: post #10
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 mean - 40k is set in the year 40k, roughly, right? We've got a lot of time.

I don't!

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

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Post by cwkoss »

spookthesunset wrote: post #94
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...

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.

Meat sink

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

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Post by xeromal »

dymk wrote: post #76
flak48 wrote: post #9

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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 doesn’t mean anything

This is a pretty confident answer, but I think you miss the point of the titanium. It can act as a heat battery and slowly let it dissipate all around vs a focused point of heat.

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

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Post by debacle »

madamelic wrote: post #83
debacle wrote: post #52

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It seems like the greatest thing lagging behind is society. What the reddit poster did was possible 20 years ago, but likely would have caused wistful maidens to faint, etc.

Yep. I have 2 RFID implants and I don't mention it to most people because I have genuinely gotten bad reactions from even other software engineers. It's a pretty minor 'modification' but people get really weirded out about non-medical implanted tech.

I am a body purist, but I understand why people are curious about these things. More functional than navel piercings, at least.

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

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Post by alasdair_ »

mauvehaus wrote: post #65
cogman10 wrote: post #50

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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…

Screw batteries, just implant a nuclear generator inside the body instead. Perfectly safe :)

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-heart-pacemaker-dc-id...

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

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Post by prvit »

andrew_ wrote: post #114
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.

I'd recommend the Joe Rogan clip where they read the ToS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtGwlQWqQWs TikTok is the most public and effective social espionage campaign ever devised or put into practice.

Imagine being this easy to fool.

Tiktok isn’t special when it comes to collecting data.

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

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Post by melony »

LeifCarrotson wrote: post #45
mckirk wrote: post #7

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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.

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…

The issue with high power lasers is heat dissipation.
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