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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Mickey7@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    watch porn --> get epilepsy

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    i feel like at this point it should be utterly trivial to mount a camera on the ceiling and be able to control things with gestures, like pointing at the computer with the thumb out and rotating the hand to raise and lower volume

    the fact that nothing even remotely like this is available is why people don’t think technology is fun any more

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    • GCanuck@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s actually because trial after trial and market research has shown that the vast majority of people don’t want to wave their hands around just to control their electronics.

      Not to mention the privacy aspect of allowing full body motion capture in our homes.

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      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        you uh, do realize the exact same thing applies to voice control, right? and people pay out the nose for what is just a wiretap

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  • Setiyeti93@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Obligatory technology connections video:

    youtu.be/TBPVJtGBf8Y

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    • darkreader2636@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      With the magic of buying two of them, he has two of them (duh)

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My grandparents had one in their bedroom.

    one night I had to go to the bathroom and saw the lights under the door were flipping on and off repeatedly.

    😶

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The movie they were watching was so good they clapped for 20 minutes

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      • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Grandparents … 20 minutes

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  • simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Got one as a gift for Christmas in the early 00’s.

    It generally worked, but you needed to be pretty loud, and things could accidentally trigger it.

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    • bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I bought one just for shits sometime in the 90s, it sure wasn’t the most reliable.

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  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    as popular as these were, I only think I ever saw one

    but now that I am seeing that package, I don’t think I ever realized that its the same packaging as Chia pets

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    • relativestranger@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      the two originate from the same company, iirc.

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  • Rexiose@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Netflix and chill nightmare

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Friends had one. They had a yappy dog. The light would turn off and on when th dog barked.

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    • GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The yapper? I like it

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  • Matticus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes but I stopped using it when I was a young’n. Turns out that the click CLICK of opening a soda or beer can registered as 2 claps. That stopped being amusing pretty quick.

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  • swagmoney@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    me n ur mum makin blinkenlichten

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    • Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Blinklichter?

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      • swagmoney@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        blinking lights

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  • bunkyprewster@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Loved my clapper. More reliable at turning the lights on and off than Google Home.

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  • Signtist@bookwyr.me ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It was pretty useful until I had an argument with my mom and the lights would constantly turn off and on.

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    always wanted one of these things.

    great for lamps that are otherwise a pain to get to to turn on/off.

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  • Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I was sometimes able to get it to work by making a quick loud vocal sound.

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    • themaninblack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.” -Walt Whitman

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  • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    My Canon camera can take a photo by clapping or saying cheese or making a loud enough sound.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      perfect for capturing sneezes

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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Now we have clanckers that do the same, but with voice commands!

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  • Pat@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    No, but for some reason, I still clap to turn lights on or off.

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  • rauls5@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Had? Still got mine!

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  • Stache_@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I got one as a Christmas gag gift back around 2015-16 and had it hooked up to a lamp for awhile. Like what other folks have said, you had to be pretty loud with it, and I definitely had it trigger when I didn’t want it to. But still, it’s a fun gimmick. I must’ve lost it at some point during a move, because I lost it a few years ago and kinda wish I still had it

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My grandfather was a gadget guy, so the year these came out everyone in the family got one. I used mine for a couple years with varying amounts of success.

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  • garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No that was too bougie for us, but I did have a string that I had tied from my bed to the light switch. And honestly why did they take away our sticky outy light switches?

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    • humorlessrepost@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      There are still tons of them at any hardware store. People just prefer the look of the newfangled ones.

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  • Korne127@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I only know this from the one movie with the terrible grandma neighbour

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