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More and more open source modular sensing/wearables coming to light!

I wonder how this may impact (or not) technology that enables novel perspectives via sensory substitution, expansion and addition for *non*-medical purposes, and those which may have some medical impact but don't make strong claims as *curing*. Pharmacy OTC purchasable tech in the future?

Alternatively, I wonder if there's ways to couple to other senses, to better seed the conceptual visualization side - which after training could drop down to just a single input. (Like coloured letters for alphabet learning in kids, but auditory+tactile for the blind, visual+tactile for deaf, etc)

Wonder what sort of non-tainted tests could be done to record subjective experiences, or if that's even a concern vs functionality afforded proving subjective claims (Like how police have to seperate people to take witnesses statements?)

Does make me wonder if that in part is why my tech doesn't give me phosphenes vs a more nuanced subjective phenomenological interface. Will have to see what wider usage reports down the line from others, I suppose.

Cognitive Conceptual Mimicry and Camouflage what if your sense of knowing truth could be exploited?

Cognitive conceptual mimicry and camouflage - using religious rhetoric to pull subconscious scaffolding towards masking atrocities as moral, justified, God's will.

curiosiate.com/cognitive-conceptual-mimicry-and-camouflage/

Why are tactile sensations suppressed during movements? In our new preprint, we explain this as optimal integration of sensory signals with an internal model.

Work led by @fatatai.bsky.social with Dimitris Voudouris, Katja Fiehler and @c-rothkopf.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Internals of a sensory weaver, comprising of 24 haptic actuators, leather, tpu trays, custom pcbs, 3d printed housing, and a lot of wires. The device being built is on a white counter, with various instruments to create it around - crimpers, side cutters, solder, solder paste, small screws, screwdriver

A wrist worn 4" black leather and 3d printed device with a modular sensor slot on the top, and two sensor modules on the side with various sensor modules plugged in

The other side of that 4" black wristband sensory weaver, showcasing a rounded display

Ah, fellow modular gauntlet appreciators

A computer control panel for "manifold synth" - showing a blurry thermal readout and various menus, options to control a microcontroller sensory weaving device

Closer and closer....

Hard to trust the motives, words of a company owned by a man who sure seemed eager to be pals with Epstien on anything put into direct brain contact.

We sacrifice water to these new "gods", for this shit.

Thanks!

Certainly seems like it makes one off production much easier for maker spaces, with the method you've devised, less need for echants and such makes it a way more viable route to have, in a much smaller space, without needing a proper fab run. Will have to try out for daily wear!

A small (1.5") square green perf board has various small coloured wires soldered into it, on top of a white tabletop with reflections of overhead light strips visible in it. In the background a blurred out of focus mess is visible, black plastic objects, a green plastic spool of solder wire

Inside a 3d printer, a white object is being printed - the print is midway through, and inside the print has been inlaid haptics actuators, alongside wiring running outside the print, taped down to the build plate. It is a bambu lab p1s printer, with custom side vent seen in the corner of the photo

On a table, two wristbands can be seen. One is larger, leather bound with modular magnetic socket GPIO sensor module expansion slots, one of which has a round thermal sensor and rectangular distance array sensor visible. Similar, on the smaller wristband, also black but not leather unlike the first - this one uses TPU so it is flexible rubber. There is a square block containing various sensor module slots. This is built in, not modular this time however.

Time to shrink the size and skill needed for DIY augments thanks to this. Hand soldering tiny wires is a high skill bar of entry to otherwise competent makers. Esp. for one off projects for friends, family, themselves to gain perspective via otherwise cheap (assistive!) technology and easy assembly

YouTube video by Venus Theory Hacking The Universe Into Music

youtu.be/Qn4Vjm-M9ZI

Is there a term for the phenomenology of phosphenes or otherwise mental representations of sensory perception from such methods? Qualia fits, but phosphenes are a poor qualia, at least vs what I've experienced.

Hmmmm. Subjectively I've found it does, although to what extend I'm not nsure. Seeing with the hands noted similar sort of scanning motion that I found myself doing subconsciously at times, for their lidar -> electrotactile display. Being able to map out a space via multisensory engagement

Proprioceptive feedback helps couple things?

How do we use haptics for modular data ingest over customized sensory lattices from stable signals to accommodate sensory processing differences, is also a good question.

Some thoughts from board member @michaelweinberg.org on the bills being raised around 3D printing and screening for specific parts michaelweinberg.org/blog/2026/02...

Cognitive Conceptual Mimicry and Camouflage what if your sense of knowing truth could be exploited?

What happens when this is exploited, and how do we discern the structural, not phenomenological differences between what camouflages as truth to our perceptual manifold, vs what *actually* is?

curiosiate.com/cognitive-co...

Being uniquely situated to comment on @greatdismal.bsky.social's (well known) forward looking skills, specifically about augments...

Some of the phenomenological descriptions of longer term usage and integration of new data, make me wonder if he's not secretly a cyborg too, or knew some :)

Imagery modulates the pupillary response, but this does not reliably index differences in imagery vividness. Most people report that they can imagine seeing things in their mind’s eye. But there are large individual differences. A small proportion of people r…

New Paper: Pupillary responses are not a reliable index of differences in imagery vividness.

Our search for more reliable metrics of imagery continues...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

vibrating gauntlet?

A whole set of systems interactions to map and chart!

When the world starts understanding this more the possibilities are seemingly endless

Probably could run a web app version on a raspberry pi potentially, using similar setup so long as the USB can registers as a device in a browser for the device? May have to give that a shot on one of the ones I've got laying around at some point.

@seeingwithsound.bsky.social do you think the vOICe app on android would work with a USB endoscope? Was talking with someone about it and was wondering if that would be a way to keep a phone in a pocket.

Deaf, hard of hearing people.

Pt3 (😅)

But ideally someone could just find an app recomended by a doctor, or go to a pharmacy and buy a simple haptic band, or otherwise and gain new input for tailored patterns for different tasks.