It’s getting cold and so I’m fumbling with my phone and other devices.

I like the idea of a large screen on my forearm, but I’m not sure how it would work. Maybe it would be cool?

I see some company tried in 2014 and probably didn’t get anywhere (see Arubixs Portal), and there was that infamous Kickstarter too

      • AnonStoleMyPants
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        511 months ago

        Ah yes. Can’t wait to get ads injected straight into my cornea. While driving my car. Wonderful.

        • @uberkalden
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          511 months ago

          The premise was if they worked correctly.

          • @manualoverride
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            111 months ago

            Well it could work really well… but capitalism will always be capitalism.

        • @manualoverride
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          111 months ago

          Ha - they wouldn’t do that! It’s not like Waze puts a full screen ad up every time you stop at a traffic light… oh, wait. Damn you capitalism!!!

        • @manualoverride
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          111 months ago

          You only need one to be cyborg eye… the other one can succumb the way nature intended… to diabetes and television.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months ago

      Yup. Don’t care how heavy or ugly it is either. I’d probably buy the apple headset thing if it was cheaper, ran Linux, and wasn’t made by Apple. Can’t wait for the technology to come down in price.

      • @[email protected]
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        211 months ago

        I’m with you.

        In fact, I made my own. It’s fugly and dorky as hell, but it’s everything I want and nothing I don’t.

        I used a VuFine LCD eyepiece and hooked a raspi Zero W to it. Input via Bluetooth keyboard. Not a lot of screen real estate, so I went full CLI and wrote my own TUI with widget support so I can have an “active” app, plus a bunch of passive data widgets.