kaho @kaho@coolkids.house

Saw this Kamen Rider belt on TV. There’s like a long history w the toy version of the belts that the Kamen Riders of the past wore and used to transform into the Kamen Rider. Lots of clicking in, locking in, flashing lights, flipping panels, moving levers and such. The mechanical effects and physical ritual of the belt to transform is incredibly satisfying on a user/viewer experience level. Anyways this particular belt uses actual cards that can then be used to battle at the arcade games. 💕

Oh phew... He was dissed by his employer, but he later got global recognition!

"Nakamura was awarded the 2006 Millennium Technology Prize for his invention. Nakamura, Hiroshi Amano, and Isamu Akasaki were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014 for 'the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.'" [wikipedia]

https://hackaday.com/2024/02/14/shuji-nakamura-the-man-who-gave-us-the-blue-led-despite-all-odds/

Oooooooh. who's been playing? Helldivers1 is one of my fav games. I just finished the Helldivers2 tutorial and played one game. https://insider-gaming.com/helldivers-2-developer-is-hiring-more-staff-to-work-on-the-game/

BUT comfort can compete with health, livelihood and social motivations. So if you have sleep apnea and need to wear a machine on your face when you sleep to have a long healthy life, you'd do it. Or if you have to wear a scratchy uniform for work that you'd get fired for if you didn't wear, you'd do it. If you wear uncomfortable shoes cause they look fly, you'd do it! There're ppl who wear shoes that make their feet bleed but it doesn't matter cause they look GOOD ok (totally fictitious example)

The tech and UX is certainly interesting, but I can't imagine this being practical to incorporate into day to day activities. Humans are picky about things they have pressed against and directly affecting the skin and body. That's why you cut a tag out of our neckline when it's itchy or you're gonna try to find the most comfortable office chair to sit on at work or you're gonna wear your ridiculously worn out tshirt when you get back home.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/14/24072792/apple-vision-pro-early-adopters-returns

i watched a lot of nascar on tv when i was a kid. maybe cause i loved playing Daytona at the arcade? i've always wanted to go to see a race irl, but was kinda scared for p obvi reasons. i guess i hadn't watched it for a while until the netflix series which is quite good btw. it seemed a lot fancier and businessy than i remember it to be tho, especially considering its very humble (very american) origins of vehicles that were used in moonshine smuggling. anyways, i still wanna see it one day.

Tempted to keep my phone screen monochrome all the time. It matches my outfits ok.

This only shows that over time the electronics has slowly creeped closer and close to the body. Ha ha. I guess with lower costs and miniaturization it makes sense.

While I don’t wear tubes, I wear wired earphones, instead of earpods. For some reason sticking a wireless electronic device into the ear cavity inside my skull, right next to the brain gives me the heebijeebs tbh. They seem to be quite popular tho!

Was watching die hard 2 w some friends the other day, and in the beginning of the film, the protagonist is on a plane wearing wierd cumbersome stethascope like earphones that are attached to the armrest. Totally forgotten there was a time when the transducer was not located in the ear part but was located in the armrest and there were just tubes that went to the ears to carry the sound. If you took off your stethoscope earphones and pressed your ear to the armrest, you could hear everything.

This podcast is really interesting - how teenage engineering makes cool stuff. I’ve only listened to half of it so far but great to learn about their process! https://podcastaddict.com/waveform-the-mkbhd-podcast/episode/170637297 there’s a YouTube video version of the interview too. https://youtu.be/NlHk4HQDgaM

So I heard on Japanese news that they named the surrounding rocks with dog breed names cause it would help imagine the size of the rocks by thinking if the size of the dog. That’s pretty genius if you ask me.

SLIM on the moon lol

@nasser yay! loved this game, think about it now still tbh.

@ivan did you try w shortcuts? I made some automated event that turns it on at sleepy time.

Picked up some bad habits during covid like doom scrolling. Never did that before - hated spending time on my phone. I’d always get the shittiest smallest refurbished phone, kept fixing it, replacing parts as it broke (so many cute tiny parts! 🥰) Now I have a mid level phone that’s only 3 yrs old. been using it to consume media and games - actually no longer games, just media. Recently made it so that it turns completely monochrome during the evening hours. Let’s see how effective that is.

Found my mom’s old English book that has a bunch of expressions referencing the literature it comes from. I guess she used it to study when she was young.

There’s an e-ink device called the Boox Palma that is only slightly wider than a mobile phone. It runs Android and takes photos w flash etc. if it were a phone I’d seriously consider it ok. I dunno.. it looks v cute and calm to me.