Eternal battery life for my smartphone
I technically can choose to never run out of battery power because I can portably always charge on the go without being tied to any wires or power outlets
Outcome you can reliably ensure might be a better way to phrase this and other submissions but you get what I’m saying 🕵
I can tell the time at night, most of human history needed the sun to have any chance at accuracy
I work in broadcast engineering and I get calls 24/7/365 because broadcast TV is always on. I will get a call at 3am on a Saturday that something isn’t working and they need it for the morning show that starts in an hour and a half. I will get up, drive into work, walk up and ask them to show me, and It works just fine every time. People will tell me that things only work because I’m there. I think they are a little more careful stepping through procedures because I’m standing there looking like I’m about to kill something.
I can go from idea to physical object in minutes using a $200 tool that fits on my desk, with materials purchased by the KILO (suck it printer ink!).
My glasses are strong enough and with high enough refractive index that if I look at a point light source through the edge of a lens I can see a rough spectrum of it. I can easily tell a true violet LED from red+blue or yellow from red+green. Used to be able to tell white LEDs from incandescent but the LEDs got much better.
My glasses are strong enough that they caught my book on fire.
I have to wear a hat or sit in the shade if I’m reading in full sun.
I read about people getting magnets implanted so that they can feel magnetic/electrical fields
Not quite ready to commit to implants, but i did try gluing some tiny magnets to my fingernails once.
I suspect that the implants are a bit more sensitive since they can kind of wiggle around under your skin more, but I could definitely feel some things, the two that stuck out to me were a forklift charger and an electric pencil sharpener.
I also got really used to picking up paperclips and other small metal things like that with them. I only had the magnets for maybe about a week, but I caught myself still trying to pick up paperclips with them for probably about a month afterwards.
I wonder what this would do to those Hall effect keyboards
Someone’s gonna destroy an MRI machine doing that.
And their skin at the same time
Luckily most people with those sorts of implants I’ve seen are fairly scientifically-minded, and I’d like to think that’s the sort of thing they’d think of and would wear some sort of appropriate medic alert bracelet.
It’s not like there aren’t other sorts of medical implants, piercings, situations like people with shrapnel embedded in their bodies, etc. out in the world that could potentially cause issues with an MRI machine.
Knowing how to write code and monkey with electronics has enabled me to do all kinds of fun things. Like create my own D&D utilities to make DMing a game easier.
