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Bug Watch
sticks to your skin and crawls around | |
The Bug Watch looks like a normal wristwatch body but without the strap.
It adheres to your skin through some material that sticks like gecko feet or insect feet.
Its quite like insect feet in that it sticks to your skin through lots of little prongs or nubs
The little prongs or nubs wriggle
though the motion of your skin and perhaps also through the action of the watch. This makes the watch gradually move along the surface of your skin over the course of the day.
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I love gecko feet. I would buy anything with gecko-like feet.
Especially if you could get that little gecko guy who does the
commercial for insurance, it is, I think. Cute guy. Talks, and is
sardonic. I buy a watch like that. |
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This sounds quite [xen]-like. |
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Also, it would be cool if the device were subcutaneous; it
could still display digits, illuminated or not, through the skin.
If it crawled only a small distance each day, I think it would
be bearable. |
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An arachnid version would freak out any arachnophobes who saw it. [+] |
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The arachnid version would be programmed to lurk on the
nape of neck, always keeping just out of sight. It's eight little
feet would be barely perceptible by touch. |
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(Aside: when was a kid, my bedroom had wallpaper on top of
very old, loose plaster. Said paper acted like a sort of drum
skin. Our house was also home to many long-leggedy giant
house spiders. On a quiet night, you could actually here them
tik-scratching their way across a wall.) |
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I'm not quite sure of the mechanics of crawling along under the skin. Isn't there kind of stuff in the way? I guess you know more about these technicalities than I do. |
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MB #1 spiders on my neck are just about the same as being
eaten by a shark. |
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#2 Hearing spiders partying in the walls is equal to my very
worst nightmare ever. Them, in there, doing their revenge
dance. That's when they all come out to "get" the person that
killed their sister in the bathtub. Oh no, no thanks. |
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This is not a spider idea. |
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//Isn't there kind of stuff in the way? // There is, but it's not
very strong. A mate at work accidentally stabbed himself in
the hand with a syringe needle connected to a nitrogen (or
maybe argon) line, and basically inflated his hand. It was all
fine in the end - I guess the blood supply runs in the plane of
the skin, and the attachment between skin and underlying
tissues repairs itself quicklyish. |
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With tapping of spider's feet, Christy Moore's "Reel in the flickering light" came to mind. |
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So not spiders more like a caterpillar watch in the CAT sense. |
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Well thanks, [max], I have a new phobia now. |
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A phobia is an irrational fear. Being afraid of an alligator attacking you in an apartment in Oslo is irrational. Being afraid of a polar bear attack in Miami is irrational. |
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But being afraid of an alligator attack in a garden in Miami is a perfectly rational fear. There are alligators, some quite large, in the canals that crisscross the city.Householders do get attacked, although very rarely ; and sometimes, big gators from the glades end up in the city. |
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Thus, being afraid of a jet of high pressure gas- compressed air is commonplace in many industrial environments - is a rational fear, and therefore not a phobia. |
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