With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

[AverusBlack]

Apropos of anything else happening in the story at this moment, I just want to say that I really like what is happening here. People don't like thinking about disabilities. The people who have to live with them, it's like being a footnote to the rest of a world designed around everyone but you. Accommodations are put into place... sometimes. Certainly it's not easy to live with.

Stories that shine a light on the challenges faced by those people inspire others to tackle those issues. Specifically, I'm thinking of a fellow I spoke to a few months back who is in the midst of designing a facial recognition system to allow a webcam to act as a game controller for paralyzed individuals. No fancy hardware set up, just software and a basic camera. It's not that hard to work out where he got the idea - vtubers using the same technology to control virtual models and give them body language.

So even though the eye drive is probably just a stepping stone to the actual point of this story arc, I like that it was brought up and re-included. We're making good progress in terms of medical research for Alzheimers specifically right now, but I can't say I'd have argued one being handed to me when I got knocked over the head a couple decades ago.

Long story.

 

[SilentObserver]

"My son… Tony." She staggers, and I reach out to steady her just a little faster than Derek does.

"Ma'am?" / "Missus Monetti?"

"Oh, I'm alright. I just-." She takes a moment to steady herself. "I think I just saw a lot of my memories of Tony all at once. I needed a moment to sort them all out in my head."

Click to shrink...

If the FDA doesn't approve this for clinical trials, then that whole agency needs to be burnt to ashes.

...

...Dammit, I hate narrative railroads.

 

[NightmareWarden]

Alright Truggs, you just have to time this carefully to keep up your grandma-killing record.

 

[AverusBlack]

Alright Truggs, you just have to time this carefully to keep up your grandma-killing record.

Click to shrink...

 

[boo600]

There's a bit of a parallel there between the way the eye drive works, and the way OL's enlightenment can apparently be yoinked out of him.

What sort of power supply does the eye drive have or need? Guessing it doesn't run on magic from the providence, so it must have a battery somewhere.

Click to shrink...

Well...

Not an actual eye patch like the one in Doctor Who -it needs skin contact over a larger area and M'gann couldn't work out why I wanted to block one of my eyes with it- it's designed to sit on the wearer's forehead like Seven of Nine's cyberbrow. "Human ingenuity and Martian biotechnology. It basically forms a backup of your short term memory. If anything tries to change your short term memory it compares what it's got stored with what you've got stored and uploads what you've been made to forget."

Click to shrink...

The original, martian animal/tech probably drew some power from the host's bioelectricity, or sunlight, or something else a shapeshifter could do.

The mass-production thinking-cap version he has... I dunno. Powered by motion, like a swiss watch? Powered by potent batteries, that need to be recharged occasionally? It depends on how efficient the battery is, I suppose...

 

[inglorius]

Specifically, I'm thinking of a fellow I spoke to a few months back who is in the midst of designing a facial recognition system to allow a webcam to act as a game controller for paralyzed individuals.

Click to shrink...

Kinda already a thing fir a while.
IIRC Vnyan allows to just map specific expressions to trigger arbitrary script, which can include sending keypress event. Although there might be a custom plugin involved.

View: https://www.youtube.com/live/5OAG-ZRIrvU

 

[Mr Zoat]

If the FDA doesn't approve this for clinical trials, then that whole agency needs to be burnt to ashes.

Click to shrink...

To be fair, the F.D.A. -like a lot of agencies- is barely functioning, and their oversight committee is barely functioning too. So many people died that institutional expertise was lost, which naturally creates a problem training replacements. Which the government can't afford and which people don't really want to apply for anyway.