Hide that pR0n Faster with Minimeyes

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Adult website xHamster has partnered with engineers to create a small battery operated motion sensor dubbed "minimeyes." The device uses an infrared sensor placed within 16' of a doorway, and an app on your computer or smartphone. If the sensor detects any movement, it will minimize all the windows on your desktop, and optionally mute the sound. Currently at $965 of it's $96,000 goal on Indiegogo, the response has been a bit lackluster. The product developer Moos Neimeijer added in an update that multiple computers can be hidden by one minimeyes provided they are all running the application.

I'm reminded of the old "CTRL+B" Boss keys that games used to have. While it's a clever idea, and I can understand it's usefulness to some individuals, I REALLY don't want to know what situation you'd want multiple computers triggered from one minimeyes. The only thing that comes to mind is a LAN party gone really wrong.

The minimeyes motion sensor monitors for people intruding your private space and when they do, it hides all open windows on your computer and mutes the sound. On mobile devices it will close the app you're using (Android) or show a notification and make a sound alert (iOS).
 
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The only thing that comes to mind is a LAN party gone really wrong.
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Comes to mind from personal historical experience mhm...
 
otherweeb said:
Most of use figured out the easier method, get your own place.
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Actually it is easier to just place an order for this device than it is to get an apartment, get utilities turned on, move all your stuff, pay lots of money, and now have annoying neighbors.

And then once you are married, then you have to still buy the device :p
 
Darunion said:
Actually it is easier to just place an order for this device than it is to get an apartment, get utilities turned on, move all your stuff, pay lots of money, and now have annoying neighbors
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I guess if the target audience for this device is people still living with their parents and not attending college yet then this is true.

I've never had roommates outside of college so I guess this is for those people too?

zkostik said:
Or just get an HMD, just have to be eyes only tho ;)
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Then they'll catch you with pecker in hand and you won't even know due to being too 'immersed', hahaha.
 
Darunion said:
Actually it is easier to just place an order for this device than it is to get an apartment, get utilities turned on, move all your stuff, pay lots of money, and now have annoying neighbors.

And then once you are married, then you have to still buy the device :p
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I totally disagree. Not needing a MOM key, PRICELESS
 
If you're looking at, or "exercising yourself" to, VR pr0n, then you'll likely be so immersed in the content that you will not be able to quickly hit a keyboard combo like ctrl-B, or even be aware of what is going on outside of your VR world. So minimeyes would be great for VR pr0n.
 
jkw said:
If you're looking at, or "exercising yourself" to, VR pr0n, then you'll likely be so immersed in the content that you will not be able to quickly hit a keyboard combo like ctrl-B, or even be aware of what is going on outside of your VR world. So minimeyes would be great for VR pr0n.
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I think if you were in a HMD with your pants around your ankles and feverishly abusing yourself, having the screen go blank because someone walked in would be a little late
 
Hide that pR0n Faster with Minimeyes
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Sure they can minimize the window I'm watching, but I don't know how they'll minimize my raging boner that gives away what I was doing anyway. :woot:
 
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Quartz-1 said:
This is a great idea for the security-sensitive sector. If you're on a classified network you do NOT want someone reading over your shoulder. They are clearly mismarketing the device.
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If I'm on a classified network, it's in a classified workspace and everyone around me has clearance to read it. If it's even more classified, then the monitors have to be facing away from the hallways and and such so there's no accidental or intentional shoulder surfing.
 
rgMekanic said:
I think if you were in a HMD with your pants around your ankles and feverishly abusing yourself, having the screen go blank because someone walked in would be a little late
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Well, for most people, it would be preferable for your mom to catch you fighting the purple helmet warrior with a blank screen, instead of while watching a VR midget gangbang porn set on the main bridge of the USS Voyager with the midgets dressed up as Ferengi.
 
I still have a boss foot switch somewhere. It was a simple foot pedal that sat on the floor so that when you tapped it, it'd minimize your windows, and open Excel.
 
This seems really cool and I agree with others. For porn... Whatever, the scenarios are really closer to countless than one single thing.

He needs to expand his marketing or just hope the market sees the value.
 
ZeqOBpf6 said:
This seems really cool and I agree with others. For porn... Whatever, the scenarios are really closer to countless than one single thing.

He needs to expand his marketing or just hope the market sees the value.
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Ive walked up on people and seen performance reviews, wage info, credit card entry etc etc. I could see this as a very good feature to easily improve security in that aspect.
 
I tried the beta and it didn't work and I lost my job. . .Something about blue anime vixens really upset my ceo. .
 
See I'd like this to do the opposite, when someone walks up on me to open the most messed up interspecies midget porn it can find in the hopes It would prevent people from wanting to have conversations with me
 
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Quartz-1 said:
How about when you're working late and the cleaner comes around? How about the tea lady? How about the messenger?
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The cleaning lady and others don't get in without an constant escort. In really secure spaces, there IS no cleaning service, everyone has to clean up after themselves and take out their own trash.
 
Do people just watch porn now a days? Never mind what's on the screen, they need to make a device that hides the donkey, stripper clowns and pulls up the pants.

Damn kids.
 
toy with motion sensor at Walmart for 5 dollar (can have lights or noise maker option)
remap key on keyboard for "goto desktop" (thanks Logitech)
wear sweatpants for when the wife has to go to the bathroom @ 1:30 in the morning

I think she cough's on purpose while she is still in bed sometimes..
what that you say? don't use porn, just go to bed with your wife.

Um your not married are you?
 
The problem with this idea is that it is geared towards people that are raised to be ashamed of certain stuff... And they do want to hide what they are doing. Acquiring actual hardware to hide stuff has the potential of even bigger embarrassment for those people If the device is found by third party. The only way out is to get almost everybody to have devices like this sold as extra security for when you enter password and stuff like that. Then you could "get away" with having the hardware.
 
otherweeb said:
Most of use figured out the easier method, get your own place.
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You're are not suggesting that a person in their 20's at peak sexual prowess should have to get their own place are you? Let me guess, people in their 20's should be getting cars and a job too huh???!?
 
The problem with this tech is that the people who need it can't afford it and those who can don't need it.

I could have used this when I was 16 and living with my parents.
 
Quartz-1 said:
This is a great idea for the security-sensitive sector. If you're on a classified network you do NOT want someone reading over your shoulder. They are clearly mismarketing the device.
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I'm Moos, that guy from Amsterdam who is currently running the Indiegogo campaign for minimeyes. After I came up with the idea a couple of years ago, it was first the work place that I had in mind but soon after sharing it with some friends, I realized that this would bring one thing to the top of mind: not getting caught watching porn. Through a 'contact from the past' I ended up talking with xHamster who loved the idea and said they would support it by promoting it on their website and sending out a press release. Their press release was of course picked up and ours not. So now we got this confirmation on blogs, forums and news sites that it is exactly for not getting caught watching porn. Funny, because it does give a lot of attention but we wanted to market it much broader. So that's what we're doing now... new press release ready, some interesting online news outlets wanting to promote it to their members (sponsored by them) and hopefully this brings us to the inclusion of the security sensitive sector. We are talking to an alarm installation company, who is interested to use it as a gift for new customers buying a home alarm system.

Reading your feedback and others in this forum is really fun and useful. If there are any questions please let me know. If there's any suggestions for our marketing or Indiegogo page.. oh yes, please let me know!
 
I don't think this should be marketed to kids. They literally have no purchasing power nor the ability to install it without parental approval (detection). I would however put this in any commercial or private security industry, as part of a layered security system.
 
Nunu said:
I don't think this should be marketed to kids. They literally have no purchasing power nor the ability to install it without parental approval (detection). I would however put this in any commercial or private security industry, as part of a layered security system.
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Yeah, not marketing this to kids at all. It's good when you go to college though. Fully agree with security industry. Trying to connect with security companies. Might be a great little extra (or free gift) when installing systems.
We've got some great feedback also from people asking for fun stuff to connect to it. Like a horn that will react to the "motion detected" signal. We're going to have some fun developing that one for sure, or at least testing some horns.
 
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