I think it's more a concern that the hardware isn't useful in the real world, rather than that the hardware doesn't meet the description they provide of it.
There are flexible electrodes, rather than rigid arrays. The idea was that this would reduce scarring. I'm not aware of the exact results of the trials, but it works better than rigid arrays for longevity of recording.
This thing will not kill babies. That's like saying seatbelts kill people because they don't save everyone in a car accident.
It is precisely this attitude that prevents good things from flourishing - the idea that if something is involved however tangentially in a safety important subsystem it must have perfect results.
No, we should not have this view.
If something is net positive, we should promote it.
It's not taking over tasks, it's helping to support those tasks. For the times when you might not be looking directly into the camera, it attempts to tell you about anything suspicious.
Tesla autopilot could steer you into a concrete wall, a baby monitor with some LLM attached to it does not directly harm the child.
When people decide that the nannycam works, they will rely on it. Then, when it fails, their inaction will kill babies.
It is amazing/horrifying to me how many people are intent on reincenting the reasons why we have UL, the FDA, the FCC, traffic laws, seatbelts, electrical codes, fire marshals and unions.
What inactions? Apart from creating safe conditions beforehand (but perhaps that is your point), once my kid is asleep there's not much more I can do? Most of that time I'm sleeping myself.
Exactly, there's not much more you can do when you're asleep. However, this system might just nudge you awake if something happens when you're asleep. Or it won't and you would be no worse off than if you didnt have it.
> No way its got less that 5 ccs of blood in a 9-10 cm long body.
Scaling that body up by a factor of 10 would get you 5 × 10³ = 5,000 ccs of blood in a 90-100 cm long body.
That’s 5 liter. We also have (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_volume) “A typical adult has a blood volume of approximately 5 liters”, and the typical adult is quite a bit taller than 90-100 cm.
Rated voting methods are great, but more complicated than simple choices. Given how challenging it is to get people to just pick the thing they want in very simple situations, I would not be optimistic about their implementation.
The dielectric is internal, and the motor will presumably have a built-in driver to adapt from wall voltage to 2kv. Neither of those issues are at all an issue.
A big factor with this will be how inexpensive they are relative to something that's more maintenance friendly. If you can get five of them for the price of a similar traditional electric motor I imagine it might be worth planning to swap and never service yourself. Particularly the longer they tend to last.
