Who Needs a Viral Project?

erco

I just got an email about an eTextile patch to sense hover, touch, and pressure input, using both resistive and capacitive sensing. Given all the #MeToo news lately, my first thought was to make a ladies' sweater or equivalent with these patches everywhere that would detect an external touch and set off a loud car alarm and strobe lights. At least a Bluetooth link to your phone. Or flamethrower.

Sure, it's stupid and unnecessary, but as frenzied as the PC mainstream media is these days, if someone makes (or fakes) one, I think it wouldn't take much effort to go viral. Make the bad guys afraid to touch anyone!

Ken, code it in BlocklyProp. No such thing as bad PR!

https://www.hackster.io/fkeel/zpatch-hybrid-resistive-capacitive-etextile-input-f98ab0

Clock Loop

Static electricity might be effective here.

Simply charge the victim with enough static, that the perpetrator is tazed, tesla demonstrated this is completely safe.

Heater.

Clock Loop,

...tesla demonstrated this is completely safe.

That is a very famous picture of Tesla casually sitting and reading whilst huge, lethal sparks are flying all around.

It is also fake. It's a superposition of two images, Tesla sitting in the chair and the sparks in the lab. I recall reading in a biography of Tesla that it was created as marketing material.

lardom

If "ZPatch" actually did go viral it would be a 'head scratcher' to me: "Velostat" isn't trending to my knowledge...

Clock Loop

Heater. wrote: »

Clock Loop,

...tesla demonstrated this is completely safe.

I recall reading in a biography of Tesla that it was created as marketing material.

I was kidding about it being safe, but i didn't know the image was fake.