The Bluetooth Bong was a vast improvement over the MIDI Bong.
MIDI aftertouch on the carburetor was a nice improvement over your grandfather's old Serial Acoustic 300 Baud ASCII Bong, but the Bluetooth Bong HID has a much higher bandwidth, multitouch chording, accelerometer tilt tracking, modular monophonic splash resistant microphone, and they weren't as easy to accidentally knock over because they were wireless. An extremely important feature if you have cats around.
But nothing beats a high-end spill-proof Rooᴙ 802.11be NVB (Network Video Bong) with fully submersible IPX8 smoke resistant stereo mics.
My first thought with this card was that it could be "gamified" into something that kids would probably love. A clique-y, social thing where kids could "pour" some of their fluid into another's card, with NFC or something. User preference colors that don't change when "poured" could help indicate how many different people have interacted with your card.
But enough spitballing. There's no killer idea there. Just something I'll be amused to see show up as a value-add for some other kind of toy, or whatever.
Remember those little LCD cube block toys with the stick dudes that lived in 'em, then when you plug 'em together they interact? Those were the days.
44 points by mekaj on Nov 20, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 11 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10600001
The T2 Tile Project:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1M91QuLZfCzHjBMEKvIc-A
Artificial Life Creation T-0 and Launching - T2sday Update 3135:
Maybe I grew out of the age range or maybe the whole market of silly knick-knacks has died out but they definitely drove my interest in all things electronic.
Then you can lay the fertilized eggs at any GPS coordinate to gestate and hatch later on.
That could start a whole genre of AI (Artificial Insemination) Life Simulation games.
I made "PalmJoint", a beamable Palm pleasure card for CodeCon 2002, when everybody was beaming their contacts around by IR at conferences, I would beam an interactive doobie simulator a bunch of people could play together in a circle. Each person gets their own doobie, and you can have contests to see who can virtually smoke theirs the quickest, or keep it lit for the longest time. I never get around to implementing an IR token passing network:
https://donhopkins.com/home/images/PalmJoint.png
https://donhopkins.com/home/PalmJoint/Src/PalmJointMain.cpp
Some conferences of the era had kiosks with IR LEDs that beamed out a Palm app with a conference map and schedule, which would have been great to hijack for beaming out PalmJoints instead.