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Doom Running on a Toothbrush
- axegon_ 3y agoESP32 in a toothbrush? What? Why?
- tinf0ilhat 3y agoTo run Doom obviously.
- voidUpdate 3y agoTo tell you how many times you've used the toothbrush, of course! https://youtu.be/V39qPwKpcGg https://youtu.be/V39qPwKpcGg
- gbraad 3y agoBest comment! ... preventing you from peppermint induced numbness for the day!
- nkozyra 3y agoProbably massive overkill to get an easy bt/wifi board to connect to an oled display. These things are so cheap and the containing "smart" product so marked up everyone reaches for the hammer to drive their thumbtack.
- dabeeeenster 3y agoUgh, the amount of rubbish going into landfill. This sort of thing needs legislating against IMO.
- bombcar 3y agoStandard parts are much cheaper than simpler non-standard ones.
- baq 3y agoIn this time and age, the question is 'why not'? If customers want a bluetooth-connected toothbrush and are willing to shell out the extra $5...
- abricq 3y agoI don't think that engineers must design product only because of "why not doing it if we can do it". There is a ethical value to what we design and produce. Some technologies are better than others.
- baq 3y agoI guess you're right, it's just that there are plenty of people who don't think it's unethical to put bluetooth in a toothbrush...? Even if it means putting in a computer which would've been a nice office computer 30 years ago?
- tky 3y agoRegrettably, electric toothbrushes now often feature displays, Bluetooth, analytics, and the pinnacle of terrible: DRM/forced replacement of brush heads. LLM soon, surely.
- aaron695 3y ago[dead]
- art0rz 3y agoFor those without a Twitter account confused by its hostile UI, here is a link to the video https://twitter.com/atc1441/status/1762969015197053110 https://twitter.com/atc1441/status/1762969015197053110
- MattPalmer1086 3y agoI wish people didn't post twitter links to HN. They're almost always useless now you have to have an account.
- CWuestefeld 3y agoI wish people didn't use Twitter links at all. They almost never convey real information, just a quick opinion. If they're useful at all, it's to point to a real article or study or whatever, so just point to the real ultimate source. Zvi's blog is infuriating for this. He seems to think the whole world revolves around Twitter.
- Anthony-G 3y agoI’ve never upvoted a Twitter submission – even if provokes a good discussion on Hacker News. I don’t think Twitter is conducive to meaningful discourse and I don’t want to promote it. Since they renamed to X, the situation has only worsened with its user-hostile UI and required logins.
- afraca 3y agoI'm wondering: IS there a way to get to that video from the linked tweet without being logged in? I could not figure it out. Thank you for your service of providing the video.
- Cheer2171 3y agoNo
- kayge 3y agoYep! For now at least: 1. Copy the ID at the end of the URL 2. Replace the xxxxx in this URL[1] with the ID you just copied 3. Go visit the new URL you just created So in this case, the bypass URL would be [2] [1] https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=xxxxx https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=xxxxx [2] https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=1762974846487531834 https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=17629748464...
- bitwize 3y agoDoom has been officially ported to Husqvarna lawnmowers: https://www.husqvarna.com/uk/learn-and-discover/news-and-media/doom-husqvarna-update/ https://www.husqvarna.com/uk/learn-and-discover/news-and-med... You know that "can it run Doom" has gotten out of hand when device vendors embrace it.
- Aardwolf 3y agoThere is also a lawnmower mod for doom that you could then run on the lawnmower https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/140710-myhousewadlawnmower-mod/ https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/140710-myhousewadlawnm...
- merelysounds 3y agoThis is a power product manufacturer. I'm sure at some point they considered porting this to an actual chainsaw; the lack of screen must have been a blocker. I guess a lawnmower is the next best thing they could come up with.
- bombcar 3y agoWith the advent of good battery chainsaws we’re only a few years away from one having a diagnostics screen, and which point doom on a chainsaw will be possible.
- chasd00 3y ago> With the advent of good battery chainsaws we’re only a few years away from one having a diagnostics screen "hear that? that's the sound of.. inevitability." - Agent Smith
- ChrisArchitect 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39504655 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39504655
- TonyTrapp 3y agoPerfect. I remember a DOOM mod that replaced the chainsaw with an electric toothbrush. Obviously this needs to run that mod. Edit: I think that's the one: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Doom_3:_Mr._Smiley_Head%27s_Safari https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Doom_3:_Mr._Smiley_Head%27s_Safari
- jl6 3y agoTo be fair, that’s a pretty fancy toothbrush!
- snthd 3y agoNeeds haptic feedback.
- bergen 3y agoI'm sorry, that is cool and all, but since 2020 when somebody made doom run on a pregnancy test I am waiting for something as impressive. Even running it on a toothbrush seem "meh" to me in comparison, although certainly a feat.
- bergen 3y agohttps://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a33957256/this-programmer-figured-out-how-to-play-doom-on-a-pregnancy-test/ https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a33957256/this-prog...
- tiagod 3y agoThat person just replaced the internals with an OLED display and controller
- theclansman 3y agoThat is so disappointing lol, all this time I thought it was running on the actual pregnancy test hardware.
- tiagod 3y agoI was disappointed more promptly when reading further into the thing back then... but most people were misled to think it was running on the test hw
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- hyperborean 3y ago[dead]
- BuildTheRobots 3y agoNice to see it's in keeping with the current trend for horizontal videos being displayed on vertical screens ;)
- _ea1k 3y agoDoes anyone know the actual model of toothbrush?
- pieterr 3y agohttps://www.evowera.com/en/html/mini_person_norm.html https://www.evowera.com/en/html/mini_person_norm.html
- asgerhb 3y agoInteresting! I was wondering what in the world you could do with a computer inside a toothbrush. From the product page[1]: - Zone reminder for uncleaned aread - Intense pressure reminder - Some kind of tracking through an app - Send each other stickers through the display Typical case of very niche/almost useful feature set for smart devices. If the zone tracking is accurate, it could potentially help a lot of people who have trouble concentrating on brushing. And some sort of reminder would be great I'm sure. But bundling all that with an app and a big expensive display is just silly. An indicator LED and haptic feedback for over-bushed areas would be just as good (if not better) usability. [1]https://store.evowera.com/products/planck-mini-for-adult-smart-manual-toothbrush https://store.evowera.com/products/planck-mini-for-adult-sma...
- sillywalk 3y agohttps://old.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/ https://old.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doom_ports https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doom_ports
- tw1984 3y agotoo bad that doom doesn't run on any kind of toothpaste