Black Mirror Season 5: dishwashers, sex stuff, and brain image reconstruction

Published: June 18, 2019, 7:45 a.m.

Striking Vipers \n\n Human sexuality \n\n

The bright and exciting future of who does what with whom and how. Polar bears. How we might have handles this VR technology as teenagers.

\n\n \n Colbert is the bear\n\n Gaming \n\n

Nostalgia for days-long gaming binges with Doritos and Easy Cheese. Ubiquitous full-spectrum VR experience. Neural mapping. Popular physics plugins , game engines, and the possibility that McCallister and Striking Vipers etc run on the same software.

\n\n Bodily bacteria \n\n

Dirt subscription boxes. Maintaining your skin microbiome. Showring? Soap vs detergent. Probiotic yogurt: \u201cone for me, one for the undercarriage.\u201d

\n\n Dishwashers \n\n

Knife-down safety is actually important(!). Dish detergents and plate dirtiness. Clever dirtiness-measurement technologies.

\n\n Smithereens \n\n Driver Rating \n\n

\u201c2 stars, car was clean\u201d

\n\n Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too \n\n Virtual performance \n\n

Virtualizing irl performers. Pepper\u2019s Ghost. Lifelike real-time rendering technology. Real-time raytracing. Motion capture cost and complexity drops.

\n\n Brains etc \n\n

Machine learning vocal production. FMRI vs EEG vs whatever awesome thing they have in Black Mirror. Deep image reconstruction from human brain activity.

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  1. \n\t\t\t\tHead Like a Hole by Devo: YouTube\n\t\t\t
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  3. \n\t\t\t\tHuman brain mapping and brain decoding by Jack Gallant: YouTube\n\t\t\t
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  5. \n\t\t\t\tDeep image reconstruction from human brain activity: PLOS\n\t\t\t
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