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We're very good at reading faces - that tiny eyebrow flicker that says, "you're treading on my toe", or the minuscule grimace of "my hovercraft is full of eels". But obviously, our lives could be better, with Technology (tm).
We need little flexible loincloths, with e-ink displays on them, linked
up (via a signal processing unit) to a simple ECG machine/electrodes in one's hat-band/other sensors of one's choosing. The loincloths would then project some rudimentary indicators of our internal state to the outside world - but in a discreet location, so that the merest glance would be immediately obvious, and highly personal. 'Are you looking at my...inner state?' Much like faces, we'd soon become adept at reading the merest flicker on the laps of our loved ones, giving us a heightened range of emotional expression and understanding, resulting in nirvana-like calm, world peace, and spontaneous outbreaks of puppies and rainbows.
Color-Changing Clothes Could Match Mood, Surroundings
http://news.nationa...1_thread_color.html
[Ander, Apr 03 2008]
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[marked-for-deletion] magic (any evidence that an ECG machine can be used to determine someone's 'inner state'?) |
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"Is that the battery pack for your ECG, or are you just pleased to see me?" |
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Okay, I'm being over-generous when I say 'inner state', maybe - but I'd argue that heart rate often has some correspondence with internal experience. Who knows how good we might get at reading ECGs? At an extreme end, we could spend all day inside fMRI scanners and have the loincloths project the output of our visual cortices - but that sounds way less convenient. And I dunno, we might end up all Uri-Geller magnetised. |
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As a side note, perhaps The Duke's LED scrotum implants could work as adjunct displays! |
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So we're talking about a mood jock strap here? |
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Baked: Doesn't that thing under the loincloth already project a rudimentary indicator of our internal state? |
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So wait is this for women too? |
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Well, I was thinking something like a little sporran, or a tiny apron to be honest - but non-gender-specific. I won't pretend to have laboured over the idea for many hours, though :) |
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I thought it would simply measure the level of excitement from the genitali. That would be easy. But I'm kinda glad to keep that sort of info to myself thank you very much. |
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//measure the level of excitement from the genitali// |
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Pressure gauge? Wet and dry thermometer? |
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//Wet and dry thermometer?// |
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