[catapart]

Ha! That's pretty cool.

My first thought with this card was that it could be "gamified" into something that kids would probably love. A clique-y, social thing where kids could "pour" some of their fluid into another's card, with NFC or something. User preference colors that don't change when "poured" could help indicate how many different people have interacted with your card.

But enough spitballing. There's no killer idea there. Just something I'll be amused to see show up as a value-add for some other kind of toy, or whatever.

[fennecfoxy]

Stuff like that is dead now btw (yes, it makes me sad too). Kids have iPhones; the idea is great but can just be an app. Which tbf makes more sense because you get the benefit of imu & everything else for that behaviour.

Remember those little LCD cube block toys with the stick dudes that lived in 'em, then when you plug 'em together they interact? Those were the days.

[DonHopkins]

The Movable Feast Machine (movablefeastmachine.org)

44 points by mekaj on Nov 20, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 11 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10600001

The T2 Tile Project:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1M91QuLZfCzHjBMEKvIc-A

Artificial Life Creation T-0 and Launching - T2sday Update 3135:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8kOkLPwNNw

[fennecfoxy]

Cool thanks for the links but are they mass produced commercial products known & bought worldwide? Because that's what I was referring to; kinda the digital but pre-touchscreen-slab type devices age of 80s-2010s.

[postcert]

Those little cube world blocks were neat: https://corporate.mattel.com/brand-portfolio/cube-world

Maybe I grew out of the age range or maybe the whole market of silly knick-knacks has died out but they definitely drove my interest in all things electronic.

[DonHopkins]

Liquid Pokemon Eggs and Sperm! Gotta catch it all!

Then you can lay the fertilized eggs at any GPS coordinate to gestate and hatch later on.

That could start a whole genre of AI (Artificial Insemination) Life Simulation games.

[fennecfoxy]

Until hackers get in and add Pokemon STDs >>

[DonHopkins]

Thus the Pokemon Plug-In STD SDK.