There are brilliant times ahead, Henry would tell his younger self
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We’ve all seen Back to the Future and other time-travel movies. I’ve always loved science fiction and graphic novels, so the idea of going back in time has been a thing for me, ever since I was eight years old and reading X-Men. So I get the idea of going back in time to meet my 16-year-old self.
Then again, I’ve watched enough sci-fi to know that you’ve got to be careful in time travel. If you change things, you will pay for it. I’d like to go back in time and tell myself not to be in The Black and White Minstrel Show, which was based on a racist premise and in which I was the only real black person, but if I went back and did that maybe stuff would happen that would be out of my control. Maybe Trump wouldn’t have been president. Maybe there wouldn’t have been Covid. Who knows?
The device opens its translucent eyelid whenever it senses the user s head has been lowered to look at a smartphone. When the user comes within one to two metres of an obstacle, the device beeps to warn of the impending danger. This is the look of future mankind with three eyes, Paeng, a postgraduate in innovation design engineering at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London, told Reuters as he demonstrated use of The Third Eye around Seoul. As we cannot take our eyes off from smartphones, the extra eye will be needed in future.
Paeng s invention uses a gyro sensor to measure the oblique angle of the user s neck and an ultrasonic sensor to calculate the distance between the robotic eye and any obstacles. Both sensors are linked to an open-source single-board microcontroller, with battery pack.