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[Drachen]

Originally Posted by vincent_richter

Now, assuming that bad boy uses RS-232 for calibration and control, you could - in theory - couple that to an RJ-45 / CAT-5 adapter and effectively slap someone's face over the Internet.

RS-232? You stuck in 1996 or something?

[vincent_richter]

Originally Posted by Drachen

RS-232? You stuck in 1996 or something?

Nope, just insanely cheap, as any good researcher should be (I believe the more common term is "frugal")! Why pick up a $20 cable that requires further effort to map, when DB9s can easily be salvaged and have thoroughly mapped pinouts?

Originally Posted by TF-Viewer

Well, you could rig a silicone face with an accelerometer to detect the force of the slap on one end of the connection and use a pneumatic actuator with that silicone hand to deliver the slap on the other end of it.

Seems a little like buying a mugger the knife he uses to rob you.
If you can take the end device out of the equation, but still deliver the expected result, think of how surprised the subject will be when they get face-slapped out of the ether!

[TF-Viewer]

Originally Posted by vincent_richter

Nope, just insanely cheap, as any good researcher should be (I believe the more common term is "frugal")! Why pick up a $20 cable that requires further effort to map, when DB9s can easily be salvaged and have thoroughly mapped pinouts?



Seems a little like buying a mugger the knife he uses to rob you.
If you can take the end device out of the equation, but still deliver the expected result, think of how surprised the subject will be when they get face-slapped out of the ether!

Unfortunately there doesn't exist any means to generate force at a remote location without a mechanism to provide that force. So unless you come up with a way to circumvent the laws of physics you're going to have to settle for having a physical object on the other end to deliver the blow.

[vincent_richter]

Originally Posted by TF-Viewer

Unfortunately there doesn't exist any means to generate force at a remote location without a mechanism to provide that force. So unless you come up with a way to circumvent the laws of physics you're going to have to settle for having a physical object on the other end to deliver the blow.

Well no, not as such; but we do have haptics-enabled devices, and a rudimentary understanding of the central nervous system. So why not develop a method that can leave someone with the sensation of being slapped without ever actually requiring a direct physical reaction? Screamers coupled with some form of mental manipulation, but taken to a further extreme?

Or we could always examine more thoroughly the results of the Stanford hydrogen transmission experiment, with an eye to transferring energy rather than solidified matter.

Only one of those two ideas is serious.

[TF-Viewer]

Originally Posted by vincent_richter

Well no, not as such; but we do have haptics-enabled devices, and a rudimentary understanding of the central nervous system. So why not develop a method that can leave someone with the sensation of being slapped without ever actually requiring a direct physical reaction? Screamers coupled with some form of mental manipulation, but taken to a further extreme?

Or we could always examine more thoroughly the results of the Stanford hydrogen transmission experiment, with an eye to transferring energy rather than solidified matter.

Only one of those two ideas is serious.

And all of those ideas would still require a device of some sort on the receiving end of the slap, no matter how it was delivered. So that in mind let's just fall back on the old saying and "Keep it Simple, Stupid", and just have the silicone hand hit someone's face. That mechanism could come standard with every online device so that everyone knows they're going to get slapped if they act like an ass online.

Also, we are way the fuck off topic.