h a l f b a k e r yStrap *this* to the back of your cat.
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finally, a confused bitter-sweat expression that
matches my heart. |
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Why not just use cadaver muscle, attach it in odd configurations, and train to trigger it. "I heard about this material" ? |
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I like it, very much. People are very attuned to perceiving movements of the actual facial muscles, even a minor difference (as a lack in stroke patients) is readily perceptible. An extra pair should quite effectively freak people the heck out. |
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Sometimes I think I'm smiling when in fact I'm not. It seems I have a slightly optimistic assessment of my own facial expressions. I'd love to use this to force a real warm smile when appropriate. |
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Terry Pratchett's "Making Money" features a hidden clockwork eyebrow manipulator. |
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//Sometimes I think I'm smiling when in fact I'm not. It seems I have a slightly optimistic assessment of my own facial expressions. I'd love to use this to force a real warm smile when appropriate.// |
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It's all in the eyes. Genuine smiles (or professionally faked smiles) involve a number of eye muscles and forehead muscles. Your whole face lifts up, basically, not just your lips. I don't know, google it. But you can teach yourself to do it, and people will think you're way warmer than you are. It works beautifully. |
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[Smurfsahoy] Following your indications I tried it in front of a mirror. I'm afraid to look in the mirror now. |
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I'm all smiles. Dammit! + |
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You can use the "geektocool 3000" to control it. |
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[movie reference]But can I get some that make me look like Robert Picardo with a different hairstyle?[/mr] |
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Skip the mechanical element. Charles Darwin's _The
Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals_ has photographs
of human subjects whose facial muscles he stimulated
electrically, to produce expressions of horror, hatred,
contempt, disgust, and so on.
Technology available to Darwin in the 1890s should be in
the dollar-store price range, by now, no? |
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Yeah - some electodes (skin coloured), taped to the skin and concealed with make-up would be better. The general concept remains valid though. |
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// Technology available to Darwin in the 1890s should
be in the dollar-store price range, by now // |
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No. In those days it was a popular parlour game for
people to electrocute each others' facial muscles at
parties - the Gay 'Nineties equivalent of a fondue
set. Any hostess worth her salt would have a hand-
cranked Ladies' Folding Face Galvaniser at her
disposal, or she'd be risking social death. It's all
about economies of scale. |
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You guys always bring me the very best links. |
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[Jutta] Google-fu like that is great gift. Be sure you always
use it for Good. |
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There are all sorts of little muscles in the face. Some are ones we barely use - like the ear ones or the platysma. They are tough to contract individually. A system to contract them in patterns not physiologically possible for most humans could generate expressions never before seen on human faces. Who knows what these expressions might connote? It would be like discovering a new color. Heady stuff, so to speak. |
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What is the new idea, here, [vfrackis]? |
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Putting these electrodes on the outside of your face is asinine. How will muscle mimetic electrodes effect your face differently than the gazillion different ideas already used by, mostly, the former Soviet bloc? |
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And why the muscle contraction angle? Contracting an "artificial" muscle outside your skin, has no bearing on what's under. (You don't need artificial muscles, any electrical impulses will work.) |
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You mentioned not only contracting, but expanding. I've never heard of that, [vfrackis], please put up a link. |
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What is the new idea, here, [vfrackis]? |
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its a new use for a new material |
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the purpose is: use an extreme facial expression whenever you like. |
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(-) On its face this idea is shockingly myo-opic. |
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The possibility of a malfunction could make or break you. It's gotta be fail-safe to be of surface value as a misery filled snarl could ruin a wonderfully achieved orgasm, or.... |
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...dayrl microwavin his pizza pocket at 2:10 am in room 216. In 217 carlie and smooch is goin at it with no end in sight when daryl nex door starts stabbin at buttons in a panic trying to stop the beepin on his meal. Synapse befuddlin' levels o' electromagnetic radiation spill from the battered unhinged door of the 1969 radarrange into daryl's brain and through the wall into carlie's electrically stimulated facial implants sending smooch in to paryoxyms of rage.
"You laughin at me? You laughin at me?!!!!!!! (go right ahead with deniro's voice over if you must) I'll show you sum funny ******* hideous expletives deleted ******" |
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You have to consider all possible outcomes with an invention like this. |
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