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SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

It used to be nice to pass the back of my arm over screens, and feel the little hairs in my skin react. Do it slowly and with a blindfold on and it can be pretty intense :-)

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ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

blindfold

I wonder if you could find bright shapes on a black bacground. But Braille haptic devices and speech synthesizers did exist back then so that’s not a practical visually-impaired aid.

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- SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  No, it was far too vague for that … but not an angle I’d ever thought about!
  
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Damarus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
You didn’t only use the back of your arm, did you?

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- SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  lol … the effect only worked well on fine hairs, and getting other body parts close to the screen would be logistically tricky. So, funnily enough, I did only ever did it on my arms
  
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  - ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I have a small number of fine hairs on the back of my fingers’ first section. That’s the sharpest and most sensitive body part that fulfils the criteria and I think you could “scan” the screen with it.
    
    Wild that most households just used to have a 25kV particle (electron) accelerator.
    
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    SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Yeah. Good times :-)
    
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