 Dikote your Cybereyes, Real world finaly meets SR |
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 Apr 1 2005, 02:39 AM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 199 Joined: 22-March 05 From: vancouver Member No.: 7,215  |
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Apr 1 2005, 03:00 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 942 Joined: 13-May 04 Member No.: 6,323 |
Okay, but if I have an ally spirit in the form of a cybereye, can I have sex with it?
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Apr 1 2005, 03:32 AM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
Yes, but only if you are very flexible. |
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Apr 1 2005, 03:42 AM
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Beetle Eater Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,797 Joined: 3-June 02 From: Oblivion City Member No.: 2,826 |
The article makes a good point though. Calling cyber chrome is a misnomer; it really should be Ice. Bling-bling on the inside, baby.
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Apr 1 2005, 03:56 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 50 Joined: 27-March 05 From: gothenburg, sweden Member No.: 7,243 |
nice aprils fools day joke guys
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Apr 1 2005, 04:38 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 199 Joined: 22-March 05 From: vancouver Member No.: 7,215 |
Nature is a highly respected science and news source, I don't think they publish "April fools day" joke articals.
but I could be wrong. |
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Apr 1 2005, 08:08 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,144 Joined: 22-September 04 Member No.: 6,690 |
...? 1: The article date is March 31st. 2: The article itself is about making a potential 'cyber-eye' which has an ultra thin artificial diamond coating to protect it from exposure to the body. There is nothing joking about the article it's completly serious. |
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Apr 1 2005, 08:49 AM
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It's for winners Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 523 Joined: 8-February 05 From: Wiltshire with da shooty stuff Member No.: 7,067 |
[URL=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4396387.stm[/URL]
ok if this link douse not work let me know, but i saw this on the BBC news website yesterday and it makes interesting reeding!! torz x :D |
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Apr 1 2005, 08:51 AM
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It's for winners Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 523 Joined: 8-February 05 From: Wiltshire with da shooty stuff Member No.: 7,067 |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4396387.stm
ok but i saw this on the BBC news website yesterday and it makes interesting reeding!! sorry still cant get to grips with posting links so you will have to cut and paste sorry ! torz x :D oo ok i did put the link on! - mmm dont quite know how i did that! Sorry about the doubble post!! :oops: This post has been edited by torzzzzz: Apr 1 2005, 12:12 PM |
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Apr 1 2005, 09:37 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,133 Joined: 3-October 04 Member No.: 6,722 |
And there's also this article about bionic eye research at Stanford.
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Apr 1 2005, 12:11 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 50 Joined: 27-March 05 From: gothenburg, sweden Member No.: 7,243 |
it depends where in the world you live, according to my timezone, atleast the forum post is posted on april1st. |
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Apr 1 2005, 01:26 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,144 Joined: 22-September 04 Member No.: 6,690 |
Yeah, but that's irrelevant. The actual date on the article byline itself is March 31st. |
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Apr 1 2005, 01:44 PM
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Chicago Survivor Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 5,079 Joined: 28-January 04 From: Canton, GA Member No.: 6,033 |
Also important to note, the temperature at which the diamond coating was applied. 400 degrees. That means we can get Dikote errata'd to a lower temp now, well below the temperatures needed to create plasma.
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Apr 1 2005, 04:14 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,073 Joined: 23-August 04 Member No.: 6,587 |
This is a bit suspicious
“He will present the results on 1 April at the Materials Research Society meeting in San Francisco, California.” That said I wouldn’t write it of completely. Edward |
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Apr 1 2005, 06:14 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,428 Joined: 9-June 02 Member No.: 2,860 |
Shadowrun's Dikoting's deposition process is either one of two things: 1) It's obsolete, but the writers didn't do their home work. In real life, the high-temperature microwave/methane deposition method was out of date years ago. It's descendents and entirely new methods of diamond deposition are in use. 2) It's the kind of processing necessary to get the properties of Dikote. Not all diamond films have equal properties - that's even mentioned in the article - and the properties are definitely dependent on the process. Perhaps the properties of the Dikoting (in particular) can only be achieved with high temperature processes, while the corrosion-resistant coating used on the article's "bionic eye" could be deposited at much lower temperatures (but said coating won't have the wear or impact protection of Dikoting.) Therefore, if the writers want, they still have justification for keeping Dikoting as a high temperature process. Or they can lower it. But they aren't obligated to lower it. And if they want to lower the Dikoting processing temperature, that won't necessarily help lower temperature materials - like plastic. Materials with low Young's moduli (stiffness), like plastics or aluminum, or materials with a large thermal expansion mismatch compared to diamond would probably flake the Dikoting off quickly. |
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Apr 1 2005, 06:23 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 46 Joined: 8-March 05 From: Otisville, Michigan Member No.: 7,143 |
Can anyone tell me if and where Dikote appears in any of the SR books!? Thanks :)
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Apr 1 2005, 06:26 PM
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Chicago Survivor Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 5,079 Joined: 28-January 04 From: Canton, GA Member No.: 6,033 |
for SR3, Man and Machine
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Apr 1 2005, 06:30 PM
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Why oh why didn't I take the blue pill. Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,545 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Gloomy Boise Idaho Member No.: 2,006 |
Now this is just cool! If this works it could literaly change the world. No more blindness I mean how cool is that!
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Apr 1 2005, 06:39 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,428 Joined: 9-June 02 Member No.: 2,860 |
Not all blindness comes from the same source. If the person was blinded because of, say, a stroke in the optical cortex, new eyes won't help. But it stands to help a lot of people.
In Man & Machine (for SR3) and in Shadowtech (for SR1). |
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Apr 1 2005, 10:13 PM
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Mr. Johnson Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,587 Joined: 25-January 05 From: Berkeley, CA Member No.: 7,014 |
From what I'm reading out of the Journal of Opthalmology, it looks like about half of blindness in adults is caused by cataracts, and about a quarter due to "reversible" (read: The above "cybereyes" can possibly help) retinal degeneration (such as macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy). Another quarter is in a nebulous "other" category. So it stands to help about a quarter of the population of blind folks. One scary statistic is that the incidence of blindness has risen by 70% from 1990 to 2000, and 937,000 Americans (according to the 2000 census) are currently blind, with 2.4 million more with "impaired eyesight". |
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Apr 4 2005, 12:37 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 560 Joined: 21-December 04 Member No.: 6,893 |
Actually, this sort of tech is over a decade old. A primitive cybereye (with a computer unit that, at the original time of construction, weighed nearly 30 lbs.) has been in use by a blind man since at least the early 90's. Admittedly, he only gets a sort of 3-d dot outline of figures, but that's enough to be able to see oncoming cars and walk down stairs.
In all honesty, if tech continues at its current pace, I would not be surprised to see datajacks (or a less equivalent analogue) by 2012. |
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Apr 4 2005, 02:13 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 279 Joined: 21-March 05 From: Freeport NY Member No.: 7,205 |
I'm glad to know that I'll never get past middle age :) With the way this stuff is advancing along with genetic technology, I'll live forever!
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Apr 5 2005, 09:27 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,546 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
I couldn't find a stinking "Real Life Shadowrun Tech" thread, so I'll put this here, for fear of this already being posted somewhere else...
http://www.sakakibara-kikai.co.jp/products...ts/other/LW.htm Doesn't look like it actually WALKS yet. Looks more like a Land Stand-arounder. But even so, aren't those darn Japanese crazy? |
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Apr 5 2005, 09:43 PM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
well i think the chrome label comes from stuff like cyberlimbs that would use stuff like aliminium, titanium, carbonfibre and so on. then you forgo the imitation skin and instead chrome it :P |
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Apr 5 2005, 09:26 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,088 Joined: 8-October 04 From: Dallas, TX Member No.: 6,734 |
Somebody over there has been watching WAAAY too many Battletech movies/stories/manga. That thing looks like it would fall over at a small gust of wind....or when it fires it's gatling gun on the side. :) And once it fell over, it becomes a nice useless sculpture that can fire bullets if it's lucky. (No self-righting mechanism) |
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