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I'm just curious because I seem to leave school with a new water cooling plan for y computer and then realise that it cost money. Those are the things that happen when your on the forum a lot.

TL:DR Technology based Crowd Funding is mostly a scam these days. Link to the reddit thread Link to relevant YouTube video I got bored browsing /r/videos. When the title "6 Major Futuristic Tech You Can Buy Now!" caught my attention. Let me save you some time. Not only is there no new tech, you can't buy any of it. It's all indiegogo campaigns. Some of it's terrible, some of it is just flat out scams. Why did I spend my evening on this? Because someone on the internet was Wrong. Figured i'd post it here, in case Linus ever decides to revive Kickfarted. Here's some free ammunition. OK, let's rain on this parade. First thing: Hayo. It's an "augmented reality switch device" Which is to say, It's an xbox kinect. It appears to be using a couple cameras to read depth, and responds to preprogrammed commands. Things like "Virtual buttons" Touch a spot on your coffee table, your lights turn on. Doesn't seem like you can buy it right now, video makes it sound like a kickstarter. Even if you could, there's no way this thing works nearly as well as advertised. First, you have occlusion as a problem. It can't see through you, and therefor can't see you "press a virtual button" if you or something else is in the way. Next, you'd have massive false positives, a virtual button on your coffee table would get set off accidentally by putting any object there. That's assuming the depth perception on this thing would even be good enough, and wouldn't just freak out every time any object passed in front of the target area. While they don't state it directly, the video implies gesture control. Good luck with those tiny cameras having enough resolution to register gestures, the software to recognize them, and the parsing to filter out people who talk with their hands. Item 1: Hayo, Verdict, NO NEW TECH. Not even available for purchase. Definitely won't integrate with all the services they claim. Second thing: Rocketbook Everlast. An erasable notebook with cloud integration. Write some stuff in it, scan it with their app, it gets uploaded to your app of choice, book is erasable. Hrm. Well, this is really two things, so we'll tackle them separately. It's an app that scans your notebook pages, and notebook pages that are erasable. The app is, well, let's be real it's nothing special. It's a cool idea, Write some stuff down and scan it, upload it to whatever app you use to take notes. But, wait, you're using an app to manage your notes. Why don't you just write it in that app? The argument of, well I just needed to jot it down quickly on this napkin, doesn't work, because you need to use special pages with QR codes. If there was say, a reusable QR code sticker or something I could see this being useful, but it just adds extra steps to taking notes. Next, the notebook itself. I liked the "Any pen from the Pilot FriXion line", because it's not using proprietary "You have to buy them from us" pens. Then I looked up what the Pilot FriXion line of pens is, their standard erasable pens. Admittedly, the "paper" for the pages is some fancy material that allows the ink to be washed off with water, instead of an eraser, saving a small amount of work, I guess? But, don't we write in pen because we Don't want things to be erased? That aside, they claim the fancy material these pages are made from feel the same as paper for writing purposes. I seriously doubt anything with low enough friction for the ink to be wiped off would feel the same, but I'll have to take their word. What I can speculate on is the durability of those pages. No way a ballpoint pen doesn't leave damage to those pages after repeated use. They claim "Thousands" of uses, but that's just not possible. Especially when you're talking about running a Metal ballpoint pen, on a Polyester page. Item 2: Rocketbook Everlast: Page material is new, the app offers no new tech. Product probably works as advertised but I have serious doubts about longevity, and no idea what use case this has. Not bad. Third thing: uArm swift/pro. An open source robot arm, aimed at hobbyists and educational use. Regular arm does 500g and 5mm accuracy, pro version does 500g and 0.2mm accuracy. Indiegogo, NOT AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE. Robot arms aren't new. Open source, not new. However, something like this for small scale automation or projects is. Unfortunately, there have been a lot of these "Home Robotics Kits" hitting the market in the last two years. They all suffer from Terrible, Horrible, Unusable programming languages, buggy software, and lacking support. I do like that they've included advanced programming options for people that don't want to use the "Graphical programming interface". The accuracy on the arms is terrible. Even the pro version. 0.2mm doesn't sound like a lot, but it adds up when each action performed can alter where the next action happens by 0.2mm. 500g is a lot of weight for something that small with that type of armature, I'd expect a lot of Flex in that arm, throwing precision off even further. It's an expensive toy that children won't play with, and any adult capable programming it probably wouldn't use. If you had the required skills to program and use something like this, doing it with an arduino would be much more efficient, offer better expandability, and a larger and existing community for support. Item 3: uArm swift/pro. No new tech, maybe new in the sense that it's available to consumers, except that anyone who could actually use this would be able to build one themselves from scratch. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SALE, Indiegogo campaign. Fourth thing: Fingbox. It's a network monitoring and security....box. Another indiegogo. Well, their first claim is bullshit right out the door. They claim you can just plug it into your router, and that's all. OK, well let's assume it also needs to be plugged in, despite the prototype on screen not having a power cable. The more I think about this the more offended I get that people are giving them money. First, there's no way it can do half of what it claims. Monitoring individual devices and and restricting access. No. Period, it can't. At least not in the way they've suggest it be installed. Even if this thing could talk to the router, and they'd have to make it compatible with thousands of routers, it would take a lot of setup, way more than someone who needs a device like this could do. Anyone who could get a device like this working in the way they've demonstrated it, wouldn't need a device like to police their network. Next, their entire claim of "free forever" "no subscription". Yeah, bullshit. Even if this thing could do what it claims, which it can't, it needs to send notifications to your devices. Now it's possible to do this over WiFi, even if I've never seen an app actually implement it properly. But here's the thing, it would Only work over WiFi, which means I wouldn't be able to detect intruders on my network, or monitor the PS4's use while I'm away from home, completely defeating the point of existing since I can walk into the damn living room and see whether or not the PS4's in use. If instead it's communicating over the internet, then your notifications are going through their servers. Which means they can, at any point, decide to start charging for this service. It certainly won't be "Free Forever" because they'll either decide to start charging, or go out of business, and then it all stops working anyway. Item 4: Fingbox. No new tech at all, Cannot possibly do what is advertised, Even if it did work anyone capable of installing it wouldn't need it, but that's okay because it's NOT AVAILABLE FOR SALE. Fifth thing: NextVPU Angel Eye Glasses. It's glasses that help the blind get around by warning them of obstacles, and providing directions. Oh man, this is such a scam it's funny. We can break this down into two things, a bluetooth headset, and the actual Augmented Reality stuff. It's a bluetooth headset. It's not new. The prototype actually looks like it's hooked up with a cable to an unseen device, presumably a smartphone or small computer. It's relaying directions to a visually impaired person. Yeah, unless they intend to remap the entire world, it's just pulling walking directions from google maps or some other existing map source. Nothing new here, and kind of useless to someone who can't see since GPS only puts you within 15 meters on a good day. Next, the augmented reality stuff. It's all nonsense, is my opinion. We see it Claim to be able to do the following: Determine what denomination of currency is held in front of it, Detect stairs going up or down, and warn users of red lights, and read a menu. OK, Denomination of currency, given good lighting, I can see this working, I don't know about chinese money like in the video, however Canadian money has indentations specifically for this purpose, rendering this feature worthless. Detecting stairs, and red lights. Oh wow, NO WAY. Firstly, the camera has no way to determine Which red light source is a red light. After that, the problems involved in detecting stairs are ludicrous, I don't see any way for it to do that with the limited cameras on board. But that's ignoring the largest factor, Liability. Even if it could, they couldn't sell it with that feature, no company would insure them for the kind of liability that happens when your glasses tell a blind person it's okay to walk into traffic. The problem there really comes when the camera fails to detect a red light. Such nonsense. Item 5: NextVPU Angel Eye Glasses, No new tech, could only do about half what they claim, doesn't solve any problem that a bluetooth headset and a smartphone together haven't solved. NOT AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE (And probably never will be thanks to glaring liability issues) Last thing: Livia. An electrical device to reduce menstrual pain. On indiegogo. Disclosure, I don't have lady bits, and therefor only have limited knowledge. I do however not need to be a lady to point out some obvious problems. Funny ad though. I can't believe it's 1000% funded. OK, so it uses two electrical pads, hooked up to a colourful unit. The pads are placed on the lower abdomen, and claim to reduce pain by "blocking the pain signals between your brain and your lady bits". First, No. No it doesn't. If it was, there'd be all sorts of fun side effects like PARALYSIS OF THE LADY BITS. Even then, if we could block pain this way, the medical field would be using it instead of anesthetic. It's clearly an electrical muscle stimulator. Now, it's possible that controlled electric stimulation of muscles could ease cramping. However this is where my knowledge ends, not ever having had to experience this sort of cramping. I do however know the last time I was hooked up to something like this, my muscles seized immediately, and the whole experience was for me rather unpleasant. Could this device Uncramp muscles? I don't know. But it certainly doesn't do what it claims by "blocking pain signals", so I have a hard time believing it works at all. Item 6: Livia, Doesn't do what it claims, whether it works at All I can't be certain, but it's NOT AVAILABLE FOR SALE. TL:DR Technology based Crowd Funding is mostly a scam these days.

Just out of curiosity, what was the capacity of your first PC build's storage device? For mine, I had a 500gb HDD

What do you guys think about the new Arctic 7. Im thinking of buying it when it comes out but I'm worried about the wireless part. Im a competitive gamer and the delay does not look very nice.

A friend and I are looking for fun games to play together(PC). basically anything online co-op and preferably simulation. but mostly online co-op that's fun. almost every night we spend about an hour looking for games just to resort to watch2gether or Roblox after we get bored of csgo or rocket league

So I got bored at home didn't really want to game because I had to be some where in a half hour, so... I started building my dream PC that I want, but then I got curious and decide to see what the cheapest build was on pcpartpicker.com. But I didn't really search very hard to get super cheap. All I did was sort each page to low to high and click the first thing in the list. If anyone buys this and builds it or has the parts and builds it, please tell me how sh*tty it is. (benchmarks) cheap computer

I was bored one day and decided to do this, is it stupid (also the pc isn’t fully built selling it to a friend and he’s getting more parts)

I have slow internet and did this while waiting for Windows 10 to install. If you had tha cash. What would you do different? Assuming you also spent around 11,000 Canadian rupees. https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/K8hWxY

Fill me with lead. Just saying...

That is if I can even get my hands on a 6800k on the launch date and not have to wait for an extra month for restocking. I'm really hoping the IPC will match the 6700k and perform the same in games, but I guess we'll see in due time. I plan on overclocking it to 4.2ghz so that probably won't matter anyway.... I'm really sick of having a computer from 2012, haha .

So i have an oldish phone that has an ok camrea on it. What can i do to to make this unused phone useful once more?

Anyone wanna play some games? list the ones you have if you want to.

So, when I try and build in the Hangar or rocket builder I get major lag. So my question is is there a way to lower the lag by decreasing the amount of kerbals in the background or anything else? Also, I'm worried that the lag shouldn't be happening with my build. I've got a 980ti and 5820K.

Hello im bored to shit since wow is dead and im waiting for the new expansion and ive been trying out some games that i bought from sales like far cry 3 witch keep in mind is a great game im still trying to tackle the game but it doesnt feel like my type of game somehow (this sounds retarded ik) the thing is im used to progression games like mmos like wow but the thing is i dont want to start new and start playin new mmos since i dont feel like doing new progression becuse at the end of the day when Legion gets released i will probs forget about that game. And that feels like loss of effort and work into that game if you know what im sayin. so my question is wtf iam supposed to do ive tried doing some retarded MEME videos witch worked out pretty well and i enjoy doing it and soon ill be starting to stream some random games or perhaps trying to help peapol out in wow if anny one is even playin. but yes if you have anny suggestions on what i can do please tell me. it might be me being burnt out from playing games but i did take a 2 week break from the computer since im getting a new room witch is getting *built up*. but i dont feel that same excitment playin a game.The only thing i seem to enjoy is to help peapol out especailly in wow i guess. Sorry for my english if its bad and sorry for the huge as text thanks in advance

I can decide which to get, The Sims 3 or SimCity 4, or if you don't like them list another $20 or less game I should get cause I'm bored and need something to do. EDIT: a game my laptop can run (i5 6500U with Intel 520)

Hey guys! So I'm pretty damn bored right now, and lately I have been thinking of hosting a lan party. I want to hear your guys' ideas for a lan party setup. I work in the server hosting business, so I have access to basically anything but 10/40g stuff. I have a ton of fiber cable, servers, and switches laying around too, so go crazy if you want. I look forward to hear your ideas!

I'm bored. Very bored. I need something to watch on YouTube, and I'm (more or less) fully open to suggestions. - I've seen all the ChannelSuperFun stuff, and the Scrapyard Wars stuff. - I've seen the entirety of Frankie's DayZ, Rust, Ark, etc. - I've seen the entirety of SovietWomble's channel - I've seen the entirety of Criken's channel - I've seen all of Mr Sark's stuff - I've seen all of Funhaus' stuff. - I've cranked it to all of Robbaz's videos. - I don't want to watch PewDiePie. Or Minecraft. Or Agario. Or COD. It can be tech related, gaming, etc. Please help.

I haven't slept since yesterday, and its almost 7:00 AM here... I really have nothing to do send help I also ran out of snacks... Im doomed

Hello. I'm a junior in high school and im bored sitting in ISS for the day. Oddly enough though, they let me use my school chromebook, which kinda defeats the purpose of ISS. Regardless though, i was thinking of how to entertain myself. And i was thinking, lets write a story together! Ok, so everyone just add a sentence onto the last one and i guess we'll just have to see where this goes. Once upon a time, there was a small boy named Linus.

I have a class this upcoming school year that puts me as the person who shoots and edits all our schools videos. Our school is pretty big and I am pondering the idea of doing that as a career. I have no job this summer and would edit my own videos but don't have the content. I am not you yee haa amateur using Sony Vegas torrented edition. I can use Premiere, Motion, CS6, Final Cut Pro X, and After Affects. I don't care if it's a minecraft video of CSGO whatever. If you are trying to start a Youtube channel but don't have anything to edit I'm here. I prefer if you use a format that can be used on both so .mp4, .mov, etc. How you get the file to me is up to you. I have skype, Mega, forum PMs, doesn't matter. Depending on what you want and the length of the video It will take about a day to fully render. At that point I'll send it to you however you want to upload. Just tell me the basis of how you want it and I'll get the rest. I am doing this completely free for my own good. So send in the videos!

I was bored.

Hey I've got 2 really decent internet dongles. My computers already have built in internet dongles, so they aren't really handy. However I've got a Synology NAS that only one of them are compatible with it. Yes I know this may sound ridiculous/weird but I like setting myself some cool random projects to do.

Hey all, So recently, in between my exams and studying for countless hours I find myself bored. For example, this Tuesday I finished 2 exams and now I have a week off and since I'm in a different city (not at home), I can't find work or anything interesting to do. So I've been looking to pickup something. As a tech guy, like most of here are, I'm really into tech and anything tech related. I've recently bumped into one of those Wacom drawing boards and educated myself on how they work and how good they are. All in all, I'm impressed. And as someone that is a tech person I have horrible handwriting and very poor drawing skills (outside of CAD, schematics and projects) so I thought about learning something new, how to draw on paper and maybe later buy one of these tablets! It's something I've always wanted to learn but never bothered because it was time consuming and hard to learn (for me), but right now I'm looking for a challenge! I also thought I'd never learn to play an instrument, but I did... So I'm asking you, is this a good idea? Should I spend my time like this or look for another hobby? Where do I start? How do I start? Are there video tutorials? I find learning thru video tutorials much more effective. Any suggestions from any artist? Thanks in advance LTT community, Bogica

Hi Just joined today, here to say hello. I'm still figuring out how to use this, as I have never used a forum before. Would anyone be able to explain? Thanks!

Every game seems dead to me. When someone tries to introduce to me a new game I always seem to compare it to the past ones I play and after sometime of playing it I get bored because it just seems like another boring knockoff or it's not as good as the one I played before it. I only play C.O.D Ghost now, it's okay despite the perverted teens. I use to be able to try any game and have fun with it but now it's like I find them all boring unless it's a series from the game that I liked. Any ideas on how I can fix this? Before I was willing to try any game and have fun with it but now it's all meh. Thanks for reading. -Sena