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By: I Like Socks » Blog Archive » Grinding in probability

I Like Socks » Blog Archive » Grinding in probability — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:43:22 +0000

[...] such a gateway though, I mean—there’s such a short jump from sweet lovey ideas to slightly invasive useful tools to implanting things and gently pushing the definition of humanity. But let’s [...]

By: m1k3y

m1k3y — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:51:45 +0000

drool on the contact lens.. awesome design pr0n

if it’s going to tell me the time, why not mix up the time-zones..? which might prompt one to know/think about one’s time-zone scattered “social network” (ie friends) (it’s 7am in helsinki.. wonder what’s going on with Hans)

By: Vivacious G

Vivacious G — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:43:28 +0000

I love this kind of stuff. Thumbnail timepiece for me please. I already see flashes of shit that aren’t/shouldn’t be there.

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:07:16 +0000

Amazing…and scary. I’m down with the fingernail, though when I first read it I thought it said UNDER the fingernail, and I was like “OhGODNOOODJDKFOJSDFKLD!!!”

But the contact thing is a definite no. My 10.5 hour work day already goes by like molasses…and the opportunity for foul play seems way too high. It kind of reminds me of the audio spotlight..

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:11:07 +0000

Hmmm…how intriguing!
I think that my (often broken) pocketwatch does just fine for my time telling needs…
but how about a fingernail *calculator* geek-gleeeeeee!

…or a retractable fingertip tape measure!!!! (I’m always looking for ways to one-up the other carpenters! heh)

By: Terra Trouvé

Terra Trouvé — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:16:33 +0000

Reading this article and then the comments has caused the rise of a fairly interesting question. how many people actually follow the time that intesively. it seems that people will happily rely on having a clock on their phone as opposed to having one strapped to their wrist.

By: Tanya

Tanya — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:11:46 +0000

The fingernail stuff could be so much more useful for SPY stuff. James Bond would have loved it. Maybe it could be a fingernail with network access and he could get messages sent to it. That would be fabulous.

Also, give time to someone to figure out a way to mess with those time telling contact lenses and replace time information with a random LOLcatz.

“Excuse me, do you know what time it is?”
“I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER”

By: Zoetica

Zoetica — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:35:34 +0000

Alice, Mark – don’t worry! Let the nice scientist man take care of the setting, programming, etc. You trust the good scientists, yes?

Oddityodyssey, yes. Yes it is, but we won’t judge you here.

Tequila, I imagine shopping list and news-feeding technology wouldn’t be far behind.

Benjabimon, I’m in agreement with you there. Subliminal time reminders would likely drive me mad, too.

By: Olivia

Olivia — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:32:15 +0000

I actually had this idea, only instead of a fingernail or a contact it would be a plastic strip that could be surgically imbedded under the skin of the wrist. To see the time you would tap your wrist, and the numbers would glow through the skin.

I would totally go for it. As for the thumbnail, well, I bite my fingernails. I can just imagine the sickening sound of my pearly whites chomping through a hundred (or thousand) dollar piece of technology…

By: benjabimon

benjabimon — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:14:16 +0000

i’m down with the fingernail idea, it’s fantastic.

but i’d be wary of the subliminal time contact as i have enough problems clock-watching when i’m at work and it’d probably make every minute drag on that much more. at least with the nail i could ignore the slow passage of time. nej tak.