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 Jun 21 2006, 03:39 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 137 Joined: 8-June 06 From: Present day, Detroit Member No.: 8,683  |
WOOOOOOOOOO... oh wait it's kinda quiet in here. |
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Jun 21 2006, 03:57 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 244 Joined: 8-June 06 Member No.: 8,681 |
The biggest problem I have with the contacts is the power supply. But SR seems to have Magic Batteries anyway, so that's not an issue....
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Jun 21 2006, 05:30 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,556 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Seattle Member No.: 98 |
They'd work the same way a lot of stuff in SR seems to work: using the electric field from your body. It's not magic batteries, quite... just phenomenally low current draw :)
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Jun 21 2006, 06:19 PM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
microsoft have a patent (or patent request) about using the body as a network. i think they even had a part about transmitting power around.
still, i fail to see how one is to power some of the more hungry devices that way. hmm, one way could be to have a capitator/battery attached to it so that it changes from the power trasmitted, but eats from the battery while in use. this is mostly for devices that you only use now and again rather then continualy tho. something tells me that the contacts will be using some kind of transparent e-ink display. that way it only needs energy whenever its changing what its displaying, and that energy can be transmitted along with the signal. basicly the same way that a passive RFID works. still, SR is about sci-fi, and a lot of sci-fi is never explained that much... |
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Jun 21 2006, 09:21 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 909 Joined: 26-August 05 From: Louisville, KY (Well, Memphis, IN technically but you won't know where that is.) Member No.: 7,626 |
Contact lenses with virtually anything other than display link have to have a camera/sensor. Face it, where does the image from low-light come from? Thermograph?
And as far as smart-link, we've assumed there is a camera on the gun that provides a video feed and the eye/contact provides another and the computer figures out where on the eye's field of view the gun is pointing. |
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Jun 21 2006, 10:59 PM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
a low-light sensor dont have to be digitaly made. it can be that the surface of the lense is created with more light sensitive particles then the normal eye, and that these are connected to light generating particles or something so that you basicly amplify the available light ;)
thermograph can be similar, only that now they react to the infra-red part of the em spectrum rather then visual light... still, i will add that i reacted when i first read about contact lenses that was able to do all this stuff. glasses ok, but lenses. way beyond nanotech ;) still, its in the game. and if its in the game it will probably be used, just for the hell of it. |
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Jun 21 2006, 11:59 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,556 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Seattle Member No.: 98 |
I'll be honest, I really do *not* like the amount of stuff you can put into contact lenses, especially when players layer them with glasses or something equally dumb.
Kind of amusing when someone puts thermographic vision inside of their sunglasses, though :) |
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Jun 22 2006, 12:31 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 399 Joined: 27-May 04 Member No.: 6,361 |
Heres a thought... on a contact lens... wouldn't someone else be able to see the data being transmitted to your eye, if backwards and really small?
How about glasses, shades, and goggles for that matter? I know that those three can be mirrored oneways, but you might have ahard time on a contact lens without looking really freaky... and being singled out by security... Now what would happen if people began using an image link combined with some sorta of specialized zoom application that reverses it so they could see what you see in your contact lens or glasses.... That, in and of itself, justifies having a cybereye... so very much... Mwaha.... that awesome... :love: What say you? :rotate: |
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Jun 22 2006, 01:09 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 7,089 Joined: 4-October 05 Member No.: 7,813 |
two things: 1)
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so as a matter of fact, smartguns do have cameras, that's not just a houserule. and image links can project onto the retina of your eye, which means you don't necessarily have anything showing on the outside. hope that helps. |
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Jun 22 2006, 01:15 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 399 Joined: 27-May 04 Member No.: 6,361 |
Lasers in a contact lens? OK... thats where I draw the line... *thumbs down*
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Jun 22 2006, 04:09 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 7,089 Joined: 4-October 05 Member No.: 7,813 |
meh. if you can generate light in that small of an area, putting in some kind of microscopic system to focus it into a direct beam isn't that big of a deal, imo. i mean, the laser has to go, what, like, 3-4 cm? and we've already got these contacts broadcasting some ridiculous distance anyways...
unless you're talking about the smartgun laser... but in that case, you're mistaken. that's on the gun, not the eye =P remember there's two parts to a smartgun system... the gun itself has a device in it, and then the visual thing will have a receiver device attached to it. don'y get the smartgun system mixed up with the smartlink =D |
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Jun 22 2006, 05:05 AM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
hmm, i belive someone have allready managed to build a microchip laser irl...
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