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A brief demonstration of my Titanium Cyborg Eye as a flashlight [video]
- jeroenhd 4y agoThat'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...
- ehnto 4y agoHe does mention that "safety is paramount" and that the light is at low power for now. I'm glad he's not just winging it.
- spuz 4y agoMaybe not winging it but definitely eyeballing it.
- mckirk 4y agoI 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.
- TeMPOraL 4y ago> 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.
- anamexis 4y agoYou could just wear laser safety glasses. Wait..
- thomastjeffery 4y agoSafety monocle.
- Izkata 4y agoThis is why Cyclops from the X-Men wears red sunglasses all the time, even when out of uniform.
- spookthesunset 4y agoSafety contacts?
- LanceKagar 4y agoAnd certainly burn the inside wall of the eyelid when closed and/or blinking.
- CabSauce 4y agoOr a sweet predator targeting system.
- bitwize 4y agoOptic blast!
- LeifCarrotson 4y agoA 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".
- dylan604 4y agoIt 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.
- aperrien 4y agoPerhaps you could add a temperature sensor as well? Heck it might be neat to go full tricorder-in-eye...
- spookthesunset 4y agoMight 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!
- xeromal 4y agoWow, you have me excited. That would be so neat.
- melony 4y agoThe issue with high power lasers is heat dissipation.
- LanceKagar 4y agoCool concept. I suppose there'd need to be a way to protect the inside wall of the eyelid, however.
- wingspar 4y agoWouldn’t it burn your eyelid too, from the inside?
- dylan604 4y agoIf 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.
- sonusario 4y agoTry not to blink challenge?
- spookthesunset 4y agoIt would have a blink sensor that turns it off when a blink is detected or it points at your nose or something, right?
- dylan604 4y ago>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.
- MisterTea 4y ago"Do not look at mirror with remaining eye"
- ilyt 4y agoNot 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
- RajT88 4y agoImagine cooking your face from the inside! I have some laser pointers capable of lighting matches. They get hot.
- nigerianbrince 4y ago> Putting a battery inside your eye socket seems incredibly risky to me, though We already do this with pacemakers
- hutzlibu 4y agoAnd it is risky, but it beats the alternative. Whether it is worth it for a cool gadget, is another question.
- cogman10 4y agoNot 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.
- AlmostAnyone 4y agoBut that's not true... A pacemaker goes inside your body. It's replaced during a surgery every 15-20 years and has enough battery lifetime to last that long. There used to be nuclear-powered pacemakers that could last many lifetimes but nowadays the doctors say it's better to replace the whole thing every once in a while, so the nuclear option is overkill.
- eesmith 4y agoOne of the exceptions, nuclear pacemakers using Pu-238 or Pm-147. "The History of Nuclear Powered Pacemakers" - http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2015/ph241/degraw2/ http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2015/ph241/degraw2/ > Despite the often longer life-expectancies, nuclear pacemakers quickly became a part of the past when lithium batteries were developed. Not only did the technology improve, allowing for lighter, smaller, and programmable pacemakers, but doctors began to realize that this excessive longevity of nuclear pacemakers was excessive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaic_device https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaic_device says betavoltaic "devices include a 100 μW tritium-powered device weighing 20 grams". That's about 5x the weight of a glass eye - https://www.muellersoehne.com/907.html https://www.muellersoehne.com/907.html . Assuming linear scaling, an energy budget of 2μW isn't going to provide much light.
- GistNoesis 4y agoMaybe 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 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.
- perth 4y agoImagine getting an MRI with your induction powered eye and the LED just explodes from the massive amount of conducted power
- spookthesunset 4y agoHonestly 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.
- Sohcahtoa82 4y ago> Honestly while a lithium battery might worry me I’d be more worried about heat dissapation. I mean...isn't it effectively water cooled?
- spookthesunset 4y agoYou 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.
- cwkoss 4y agoMeat sink
- thih9 4y agoOriginal source: https://www.tiktok.com/@bsmachinist/video/7157587293451062574 https://www.tiktok.com/@bsmachinist/video/715758729345106257... . As mentioned in the video, there are other designs, e.g.: https://www.tiktok.com/@bsmachinist/video/7106023143709560110 https://www.tiktok.com/@bsmachinist/video/710602314370956011... (terminator). Profile page with more videos: https://www.tiktok.com/@bsmachinist https://www.tiktok.com/@bsmachinist .
- dang 4y agoOk, we've changed to that from https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/ybisa1/this_guy_turned_his_eye_into_a_flashlight/ https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/ybisa1/th.... Thanks!
- lrvick 4y agoWhy would you knowingly link directly to a source even more hostile to users?
- tgsovlerkhgsel 4y agoPresumably 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)
- dang 4y ago"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- geuis 4y agoThe Reddit link provides a better viewing experience and better discussion.
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- sudhirj 4y agoWhere does the heat go? That seems like a couple watts at least.
- flak48 4y ago> 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/7132678375411584302?is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7132678375411584302 https://www.tiktok.com/@bsmachinist/video/713267837541158430...]
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- dymk 4y agoLEDs 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.
- hamburglar 4y agoBeing 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.
- spookthesunset 4y agoGiven the size of the battery I’d assume you could only pump out “max power” for a short time anyway. If that titanium does act as a buffer, things might be good. Honestly the heat thing was the first I thought of too. It would nice if the dude goes into more detail about it because I’m sure it is one of the top questions asked.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 4y agoI 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.
- dmd 4y agoI mean - 40k is set in the year 40k, roughly, right? We've got a lot of time.
- pnt12 4y agoI don't!
- Der_Einzige 4y agoThis is correct. I tell all my friends to watch blade runner and related cyberpunk if they want an idea for what the future of AI is going to look like. I really doubted for awhile that it would be so damn cyberpunk and so damn predictable. Than I saw stable diffusion and realized the "enhance" scene from blade runner was simply prophetic...
- Semaphor 4y agoI’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.
- icemelt8 4y agoThe repulsion hackernews crowd will face while opening TikTok.
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- newswasboring 4y agoWhy? 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.
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- WastingMyTime89 4y agoShort 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.
- ycombigator 4y agoDepends. If you are trying to show a repeatable process, whether that's just DIY or microbiology, a video is dramatically better than an article.
- newswasboring 4y agoI 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.
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- jstimpfle 4y agoImmediate "flashback". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkr1oUH1SV8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkr1oUH1SV8 . This is a German version while Astérix is a french comic (and perhaps not widely known outside Europe?).
- sschueller 4y agooh wow, I haven't seen this in many years. Thank you :)
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- smegsicle 4y agothat i'd seen before, but a flashlight? that's new
- hbgl 4y ago*empty eye socket
- reality_inspctr 4y agowhat about shielding? cancer?
- SV_BubbleTime 4y agoAre you concerned with light or heat caused cancer?
- sphars 4y agoFor those that don't want to go to TikTok's page (for one reason or another) there is a proxy service you can use, like how Nitter is used for Twitter, called ProxiTok. Gets just the video, description and ability to download it. The first video in the GP proxied: https://proxitok.pabloferreiro.es/@bsmachinist/video/7157587293451062574 https://proxitok.pabloferreiro.es/@bsmachinist/video/7157587... Proxy info: https://github.com/pablouser1/ProxiTok https://github.com/pablouser1/ProxiTok (Not the creator of it but a user of it)
- f0e4c2f7 4y agoNever heard of this - thanks for sharing. Nitter and Teddit have become near full replacements for twitter and reddit for me. I don't know if they can last but I love services like this without dark patterns.
- gxvwb 4y agoI hadn't heard of this either, thanks. I made a Firefox Add-On to redirect TikTok to use ProxiTok: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/proxitok/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/proxitok/
- hyperific 4y agoAnyone remember Eyeborg? https://petapixel.com/2016/01/25/eyeborg-the-man-who-replaced-his-blind-eye-with-a-camera/ https://petapixel.com/2016/01/25/eyeborg-the-man-who-replace...
- throwaway413 4y agoFlashlight is awesome. How about a camera…
- munirusman 4y agoWhen life gives you lemons, make lemonade!
- herpderperator 4y agoHow does it charge?
- tgsovlerkhgsel 4y agoPresumably by removing it (fake eyes just pop out).
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- qikInNdOutReply 4y agoSo, 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
- koshergweilo 4y agoI actually met this guy before, he's been making these custom eyes for as long as I can remember. He said it took him a while to get comfortable making something water-tight enough to stick it in his eye. Last I talked to him he was talking about scaling up, hope the popularity leads to good places.
- ghoty 4y agoAmusingly specific comment on that post: "A one eyed plumber working in sink cabinets would like this."
- mdtrooper 4y agoSomebody says Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead: https://cddawiki.chezzo.com/cdda_wiki/index.php?title=Cranial_Flashlight https://cddawiki.chezzo.com/cdda_wiki/index.php?title=Crania...
- artursapek 4y agoimagine this guy breaking in to your house in the middle of the night
- tevon 4y agoDoes anyone know if the eye moves in congress with the other eye or if its stationary i.e. always faces forward?
- haolez 4y agoJust occurred to me that half blind chess players could be the ultimate over-the-board cheaters!
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- wnoise 4y agoI was so disappointed when I learned what laser eye surgery really did.
- tediousdemise 4y agoAn always-on camera would be my favorite cyborg eye use case. Imagine being able to go back and relive memories from your perspective. ML could be used to automatically caption and bookmark significant events for searchability.
- xnx 4y agoThis is definitely coming, and I'm pretty sure it won't even cost you an eye. The dropping miniaturization of cameras, logic boards, batteries, microphones makes this inevitable. Likely form factors are glasses or pendants.
- aar9 4y agoThe black mirror episode 'The Entire History of You' shows a world where everyone has this capability. You might be interested in watching it.
- jalgos_eminator 4y agoThat's part of the world in the dystopian movie "Anon" - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5397194/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5397194/ You can replay any moment in your life that your eyes saw or your ears heard... but so can the government.
- 1970-01-01 4y agoStyropyro's "pretty cool, right" seems fitting.
- INGSOCIALITE 4y agowith the amount of heat my tiny little pocket flashlight generates, this terrifies me
- e-clinton 4y agoPut a projector in there and have it display your thoughts from a Neuralink
- Gordonjcp 4y agoNeeds a little "Zeiss Ikon" logo around the pupil.
- garfieldnate 4y agoI had expected to see him moving the flashlight around the room by just moving his eye and not his head; it hadn't occurred to me before that glass eyes aren't connected to the muscles used to move the eye around. I wonder if doing such a thing is within the realm of possibility.