Sound-Accessible Smart Glasses For The Deaf

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I was thinking about this the other day and don’t know if anyone is working on it, but here goes:

These glasses will provide safety/sound/conversation transcription for hearing impaired.

Smart glasses, AR-style. Clear lenses that display “bursts” of transparent colors in the direction of the sound and the colors indicate loudness. If it is something recognizable, then the words appear and fade away. (like “bark”, “meow” or “Watch out!”) The words will indicate the pitch of the sounds. If two people are talking, their pitches will be different, so someone would be able to distinguish which was saying what.

The height indicates whether the sound is coming from in front or behind and the words show up more intense on the left or right lens depending on where the sound is coming from. The glasses could have 4 mics, 2 in front and 2 at the end of the ear arms. “ear arms”? This will give a directional indication of all sounds.

In this crudely drawn mockup, you see in the blue that something in front is a low pitch sound, coming from directly in front. It recognized a horn sound coming from the left front and made it red to indicate a warning. Someone in that direction said “watch out for that curb”. There is a high pitched noise coming from the left and behind indicated by the yellow. A dog is barking in the distance to the right and behind.

Good Burger = Spongebob?

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I was enjoying Tubi recently, loving how many obscure, foreign, artsy films they had to watch, when they recommended the movie Good Burger to me. I wanted something light and funny, so I gave it a try.

A little while into the movie, I started noticing something oddly familiar. So much so that I checked the date the movie came out. 1997. 2 years before Spongebob started.

Both movies:
Small time “burger” restaurant.
One ditsy overly enthusiastic employee
One foil to this one, the one who doesn’t want to be there
One chunky owner/manager
Evil character who opens a competing business
And the kicker: a recipe that the evil character tries to get

I searched youtube to see if anyone had posted this obvious ripoff of Good Burger, but did not find anything readily available. So, I wanted to throw the idea out there.

Yes, the same company, Nickelodeon, created both of these, so the term “ripoff” might be stretching, maybe “lazy”? I want to know how the pitch meeting went for spongebob.
“Good Burger, but under the sea and in cartoon form!”
“That’s gold! Do it!”

More similarities:
old/crotchety worker
female who is levelheaded

Got anymore similarities?

AI Generated Love Affair + Lyrics + Explanation

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My latest song is entitled, “AI Generated Love Affair”. It’s supposed to represent the chaotic manner in which AI communicates with us, thus the wild imagery. The “goy or birl” line is supposed to represent how AI can’t get text right when creating images. Will anyone get why the heels are sizes 1,2,3?

Lyrics:

Electric eyes cut through me
Your love is like a major disease
Plastic heels sizes 1,2,3
AI Generated Love Affair

AI Generated Love Affair
AI Generated Love Affair

Digidiamonds and digipearls
Circuit hearts and metal curls
Doesn’t matter if you’re a GOY or a BIRL
AI Generated Love Affair

AI Generated Love Affair
AI Generated Love Affair

Electric eyes cut through me
Your love is like a major disease
Plastic heels sizes 1,2,3
AI Generated Love Affair

AI Generated Love Affair
AI Generated Love Affair

AI Generated Love Affair
How do I know if you really care

Back To Being Lonely – Lyrics – 2 Versions

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My new song “Back To Being Lonely” is out now. The first one is the piano/vocal version. The second one is an Orchestration Version. Lyrics:

Back to being lonely
Back to what we know
It shouldn’t have happened this way
Now we’re both alone

My eyes are open
And regret has settled in
You were the one thing
That made my world begin and end

Believe in something
Risk enough to take
We lost a whole lot
And a whole lot tends to break

Priestly Lyrics – Sherman’s Showcase w/Buzzy Lee

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I am in love with this song! I love the genius mashup of Stevie Nicks and Madonna. This came from an episode of Sherman’s Showcase that I just happened to catch. I couldn’t find the lyrics so I had to decipher these myself. “100 pounds of lace” had me laughing like crazy!
Whoever wrote this (including the music) was a genius! It is a perfect replica of what could have been a hit 80s song, and Madonna and Stevie should do a duet of this!
(song embedded below lyrics)

I’ve got a gossamer tunic

And velvet shawl

It swaddles my body

Its my makeshift wall

My gossamer tunic

Like satin wings

Its impossibly good like

The joy it brings

Chorus:

He seems simply priestly

You can pray IN my altar (pray in my altar)

Priestly so very priestly

You know you rock like Gibraltar (you rock like Gibraltar)

Concealing my shape

With the scarves like haze

Disguises my body

From the masculine gaze

I’m sexy beneath hundred pounds of lace

You won’t need to see my face

He seems simply priestly

You can pray IN my altar (pray in my altar)

Priestly so very priestly

You know you rock like Gibraltar (you rock like Gibraltar)

He seems Priestly priestly pray in my altar

(lord’s prayer in the background) Our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our tresspasses

He seems simply priestly

You can pray IN my altar (pray in my altar)

Priestly so very priestly

You know you rock like Gibraltar (you rock like Gibraltar)

He seems simply priestly

Priestly so very priestly

Mary Elizabeth Kelly – Bette Davis

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So a few weeks ago, I caught a youtube short showing Mary Elizabeth Kelly doing an impersonation of Merryl Streep selling vacuum cleaners, and I was FLOORED with how her face transformed into Merryl’s! The voice, the movements, the hair touches… everything! (I had just rewatched Death Becomes Her, so was already in Merryl Mode)

Then, I found her doing Jennifer Coolidge, and she had this down, too!

So, I began my search of her impressions, as I was enthralled. I found out that the reason she does these so well is that she focuses on “face acting” and “mouth acting”, etc. Amazing stuff! I searched for some classic Bette Davis, which, while overdone, is something “my people” would appreciate. I saw she has a Cameo account, so I had her try some Bette Davis. Here’s the result:

The laugh at the end kicked it! For such a short period of time, I think she did a great job.

Ghosts – How to debunk videos of ghosts

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Even though the title says ghosts, this is going to go for spirits, entities, demons, zombies, etc.

I have had true spirit encounters, and I have seen numerous people online saying they have, and I would say 99% are BS. I want to put here some of my tell-tale signs of spotting fake videos of ghosts.

The most obvious way to tell if an entity is real is to see whether it has clothes on. Your clothing does not have a “spirit”, so the clothes don’t “die” and then come back to haunt you. So, watching an entity in a shroud or with victorian clothing is crap.

Then we have the “everything is blurry in the video except for the face of the entity”. Edited.

Ghosts don’t need to peer around corners.

Ghosts don’t have a retina for light to bounce off of. Those lit up eyes are fake.

Light does not “hit” ghosts. They aren’t going to be lit up or cast shadows.

If someone hears a noise in a video and then goes to investigate without turning all the lights on, it’s fake.

If someone is doing “paranormal research”, something happens, screams and runs, then it’s fake. Why would you leave the scene of the very thing you are researching and trying to prove real?

If you are truly scared out of your mind, you won’t be hitting the record button on your cell phone. If you have already had the crap scared out of you, you may be able to do it if something happens regularly.

Mind you, there are plenty more, but since I have truly had encounters, I hate these fake videos. It doesn’t do justice to the real thing.

IDEA: Small Intestine Condom

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Since weight loss has always been a struggle, I have tried to come up with ideas on how to battle the fat. One of my old ideas was a tapeworm clinic. You get a tapeworm “put in”, your symptoms get treated as you eat whatever you want, then when the desired weight loss has happened, you get the tapeworm removed. Since I came up with that idea in my teens, I have learned that the tapeworm eggs get into your muscles. So, maybe not such a good idea.

One of my other ideas was having a “condom” of sorts from your stomach sphincter that would reach halfway down your small intestine (10-ish feet), to stop your body from absorbing some the food you are digesting. The “ring” part in the stomach would be too big for the hole, so food would just travel down it. Like a female condom. Your body would squeeze the food down, then when it reached the end of the “condom”, you would then get some of the nutrients. Since you are overeating, anyway, you would possibly get a “normal” amount of nutrients.

I will happily be a tester for this. Right before I go to a buffet somewhere.

Fighting Butterflies – An idea I had for a hero group.. like the “rangers”

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Years ago, I came up with a new kind of hero group [like a popular “rangers” group]. I pieced together an idea of what the costumes would look like, with a few drawings and sent the idea to Frederator, you know, the cartoon guys… I sent it to them to see if they would be interested in developing it, as, well, you know… money and all that. So, they in a nutshell said, (not maliciously) “all you have are costumes”. It was true. The name comes from something actual-“fighting butterflies” is a term. I wanted to turn butterflies into something males would like.

So, here are sketches I did for this. The emblem on the chest was supposed to represent the tongue of a butterfly. Each character would have a different color and ability. The arrows on this one would indicate their power of… gravity? I still haven’t put any story to this.

This was a VERY early sketch. The wings are serrated on one to give them cutting power, I guess, and the other has pointed wings, which would give him…. stabby power? As you can probably tell, other than wonder woman, I am not familiar with super hero stuff. The red boxes are cutting out personal info. It looks like a censoring box over that one, but it’s not. LOL This sketch is from 2008, so see how long I sit on ideas?

VRVynz – My idea for a new type of VR game

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Ok, here goes. I said a long time ago that I would start putting my ideas “out there” because I don’t have the resources to make them come to fruition. I contacted SickHead Games (a Game Development company) to see if they would be able to make this for me for a price I could afford. No luck. They said it would be between $100k and $400k. So, I have decided to put it out to see if someone would develop it just because I want to play it, myself. Here’s the email I sent to them. Maybe I don’t know how to pitch a game?

This will be a dark/neon-ish world [like a popular saber game] with new movement mechanics.  Stationary gameplay.  Start on a platform. In the distance you see neon “ropes”/”vines” either swinging or moving up and down.  You hold the left trigger and right trigger to pull YOURSELF back like a bow and arrow. Moving the sticks left/right will rotate you around the vine. Up and down will point you up and down. At the start, a translucent vine will be in your left hand. (This won’t show up when you are on a vine.) When you let go of the right trigger, both triggers release and you are shot in the direction you were pointed in, arcing like an arrow would arc.

When you are flying through the air and get close to the vine, the controller will vibrate, indicating that you have to grab the vine with your left trigger. Once you grab it, it may start moving down, some of the vines may start falling, so you must find the next one to shoot yourself to quickly.

You can shoot yourself in any direction. There will be walls that you must avoid, moving walls that have a hole that you have to shoot yourself through, some platforms you can stand on, the floor may be spikes that will kill you if you fall. Setup will be left/right handed, so you can choose which hand pulls you back.

Also, there should be the ability to turn on and off a dotted line that will show you where you will be shot to.”Thick” air (volumetrics?) should make it so you only see the next vine in the distance. (or whatever is around you that is the same distance) The vines should produce a low neon-ish hum when you are near them. The game should allow for different maps to be purchased and installed [like a popular saber game] as well.

Eventually, I would like multiplayer and for the game to be customizable so people can share their maps. This should also include textures with alpha channels so there could be actual “vines” or chains, etc. (This part can come later, but may affect how it is coded to begin with.)