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I know modern life is supposed to be getting more hectic and dealine driven, but I gave up wearing a watch some years ago (kept loosing them) and was suitably surprised how good I have become estimating the time to a reasonable degree of accuracy, and its an odd occasion when I am late for something these days. However, I am now blissfully unaware how late my train is. Which is good - having the time in near constant vision I feel could make life seem more stressful. |
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HUD shades will be one of the things we'll never fathom how we got by without. |
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If the time were projected on the outside of the shades, no one would have to ask the time; they'd just stare at you and know. |
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Ooo!! ooo! HUD shades hooked to some kind of wearable webcam chick appraisal and heading instruction system. HOW GOOD WOULD THAT BE?!? |
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'Hottie at 5 o'clock' projected onto shades. (people in office wondering why he is wearing mirror shades indoors when its grey and rainy outside) |
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What does knowing the time have to do with Housing and Urban Development? |
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Or Paul Newman for that matter. |
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A version is available that continuously projects an image of Patricia Neal in your peripheral vision, and she gives you helpful advice as you go about your life. |
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Can I have Marina Sirtis in mine ? |
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I had a martini made out of that just the other day. It was soooo smooth. |
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You could wake up one morning and decide to see the world from a top down perspective, like some computer games. Problem is that you would have to have a spy sattelite. |
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//top down// Hmmm, there may be an idea in that. |
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There was a classic experiment where a subject wore glasses that showed him the world_upside-down_. At first it was totally disorienting, but after some time, his brain actually adjusted to it! He was able to function quite normally seeing everything upside down. |
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When he took the glasses off again, he had to re-learn how to see reality. The experiment was by George Stratton over 100 years ago, I think recent versions have been done with webcams and inverted displays. |
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It would work a lot better if you could also call on infra red. That way you could still see youself plus surroundings if you go inside. |
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Another thing you could do would be to see what somebody else was seeing if they had a camera built into theit HUD glasses. Maybe one for the people who like reality TV. |
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Didn't that bloke on who wants to be a millionaire use this sort of system to cheat? He had all the answers on his HUD glasses. Or am I just imagining things again? |
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I have a slight variation on this that is much more practical. |
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I do a little amateur theatre, and really struggle with a couple of things. Firstly it takes ages for me to memorize my lines, so I end up trying to act and hold my script at the same time, which usually doesn't work, because I end up spending more time battling to hold on to the script, or finding my line. |
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A hud is the perfect solution. Lines projected on to a spectable lens with a forward/backward control unit mounted on one of the hands via a glove. |
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This is a really practical idea for amateur actors. |
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Of course, the other idea is that I just learn my lines! |
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I had an idea for this this weekend, and of course, I've been beaten to the punch. Anyway, here's a [+] for not having to wear a watch or continually flicking on my cellphone for the time. |
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My idea was to look up and to the left. |
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