• Jesus@lemmy.world
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    11 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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    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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    10 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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    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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    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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    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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      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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        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

  • Stache_@lemmy.ml
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    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