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Instead of a business card, I'd love an ultrathin pleasure card you can refill with virtual beer and virtually drink! You could input your weight, and it could

Instead of a business card, I'd love an ultrathin pleasure card you can refill with virtual beer and virtually drink! You could input your weight, and it could track you BAC! I made "PalmJoint", a beamable Palm pleasure card for CodeCon 2002, when everybody was beaming their contacts around by IR at conferences, I would beam an interactive doobie simulator a bunch of people could play together in a circle. Each person gets their own doobie, and you can have contests to see who can virtually smoke theirs the quickest, or keep it lit for the longest time. I never get around to implementing an IR token passing network: https://donhopkins.com/home/images/PalmJoint.png https://donhopkins.com/home/images/PalmJoint.png https://donhopkins.com/home/PalmJoint/Src/PalmJointMain.cpp https://donhopkins.com/home/PalmJoint/Src/PalmJointMain.cpp Some conferences of the era had kiosks with IR LEDs that beamed out a Palm app with a conference map and schedule, which would have been great to hijack for beaming out PalmJoints instead.

serf 1y ago
small ad-hoc networks like that with IR and early bluetooth were a lot of fun.
- DonHopkins 1y ago
  For beaming a lit joint around, you would definitely need an acknowledgement that it was safely passed, lest it drop on the floor! But how would you prevent duplication if several people received the same joint? I'd just mark that bug "Intended Feature: Will Not Fix." The Bluetooth Bong was a vast improvement over the MIDI Bong. MIDI aftertouch on the carburetor was a nice improvement over your grandfather's old Serial Acoustic 300 Baud ASCII Bong, but the Bluetooth Bong HID has a much higher bandwidth, multitouch chording, accelerometer tilt tracking, modular monophonic splash resistant microphone, and they weren't as easy to accidentally knock over because they were wireless. An extremely important feature if you have cats around. But nothing beats a high-end spill-proof Rooᴙ 802.11be NVB (Network Video Bong) with fully submersible IPX8 smoke resistant stereo mics.
Cthulhu_ 1y ago
I love it; I bought a secondhand Palm just before smartphones became a thing for cheap and had a lot of fun with it. I wonder if I still have it somewhere and whether it still works, I haven't seen it in ages though so probably not.
catapart 1y ago
Ha! That's pretty cool. My first thought with this card was that it could be "gamified" into something that kids would probably love. A clique-y, social thing where kids could "pour" some of their fluid into another's card, with NFC or something. User preference colors that don't change when "poured" could help indicate how many different people have interacted with your card. But enough spitballing. There's no killer idea there. Just something I'll be amused to see show up as a value-add for some other kind of toy, or whatever.
- DonHopkins 1y ago
  Liquid Pokemon Eggs and Sperm! Gotta catch it all! Then you can lay the fertilized eggs at any GPS coordinate to gestate and hatch later on. That could start a whole genre of AI (Artificial Insemination) Life Simulation games.
  - fennecfoxy 1y ago
    Until hackers get in and add Pokemon STDs >>
    - DonHopkins 1y ago
      Thus the Pokemon Plug-In STD SDK.
- fennecfoxy 1y ago
  Stuff like that is dead now btw (yes, it makes me sad too). Kids have iPhones; the idea is great but can just be an app. Which tbf makes more sense because you get the benefit of imu & everything else for that behaviour. Remember those little LCD cube block toys with the stick dudes that lived in 'em, then when you plug 'em together they interact? Those were the days.
  - DonHopkins 1y ago
    The Movable Feast Machine (movablefeastmachine.org) 44 points by mekaj on Nov 20, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 11 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10600001 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10600001 The T2 Tile Project: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1M91QuLZfCzHjBMEKvIc-A https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1M91QuLZfCzHjBMEKvIc-A Artificial Life Creation T-0 and Launching - T2sday Update 3135: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8kOkLPwNNw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8kOkLPwNNw

serf 1y ago

small ad-hoc networks like that with IR and early bluetooth were a lot of fun.

DonHopkins 1y ago
For beaming a lit joint around, you would definitely need an acknowledgement that it was safely passed, lest it drop on the floor! But how would you prevent duplication if several people received the same joint? I'd just mark that bug "Intended Feature: Will Not Fix." The Bluetooth Bong was a vast improvement over the MIDI Bong. MIDI aftertouch on the carburetor was a nice improvement over your grandfather's old Serial Acoustic 300 Baud ASCII Bong, but the Bluetooth Bong HID has a much higher bandwidth, multitouch chording, accelerometer tilt tracking, modular monophonic splash resistant microphone, and they weren't as easy to accidentally knock over because they were wireless. An extremely important feature if you have cats around. But nothing beats a high-end spill-proof Rooᴙ 802.11be NVB (Network Video Bong) with fully submersible IPX8 smoke resistant stereo mics.

Cthulhu_ 1y ago

I love it; I bought a secondhand Palm just before smartphones became a thing for cheap and had a lot of fun with it. I wonder if I still have it somewhere and whether it still works, I haven't seen it in ages though so probably not.

catapart 1y ago

Ha! That's pretty cool. My first thought with this card was that it could be "gamified" into something that kids would probably love. A clique-y, social thing where kids could "pour" some of their fluid into another's card, with NFC or something. User preference colors that don't change when "poured" could help indicate how many different people have interacted with your card. But enough spitballing. There's no killer idea there. Just something I'll be amused to see show up as a value-add for some other kind of toy, or whatever.

DonHopkins 1y ago
Liquid Pokemon Eggs and Sperm! Gotta catch it all! Then you can lay the fertilized eggs at any GPS coordinate to gestate and hatch later on. That could start a whole genre of AI (Artificial Insemination) Life Simulation games.
- fennecfoxy 1y ago
  Until hackers get in and add Pokemon STDs >>
  - DonHopkins 1y ago
    Thus the Pokemon Plug-In STD SDK.
fennecfoxy 1y ago
Stuff like that is dead now btw (yes, it makes me sad too). Kids have iPhones; the idea is great but can just be an app. Which tbf makes more sense because you get the benefit of imu & everything else for that behaviour. Remember those little LCD cube block toys with the stick dudes that lived in 'em, then when you plug 'em together they interact? Those were the days.
- DonHopkins 1y ago
  The Movable Feast Machine (movablefeastmachine.org) 44 points by mekaj on Nov 20, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 11 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10600001 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10600001 The T2 Tile Project: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1M91QuLZfCzHjBMEKvIc-A https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1M91QuLZfCzHjBMEKvIc-A Artificial Life Creation T-0 and Launching - T2sday Update 3135: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8kOkLPwNNw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8kOkLPwNNw