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In-Bed Emergency Protection from Phone-on-Face Drops

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Any of you use your phone in bed while laying on your back and with arms raised? If so, WHY? Don't your arms get tired?

Nope. I lift, bro.

All the time and I injured my eye from a drop once.

This was my thought too. If I do that I usually have to get on on my side and back my hands by a pillow or something.

I am reminded of the feature that Powerbooks used to have when they still had spinning rust disks, which was to emergency-park the disk heads if they ever detected zero-G which meant they were falling.

That's why Apple products never made it to the ISS

I was thinking of the ISS too...

We were promised flying cars and I am sure Elon Musk was promising cheap, affordable space flight. I thought the article proposed an overly elaborate solution and that you could just sleep under some type of mesh that was able to dim the light from the phone and be seen through.

But really the best way to solve the problem is to sleep on the ISS in 'zero gravity', commuting there on a daily basis.

My word there's a lot of phone-shaming going on in these comments. Apart from the fact that this is a joke product, you guys should consider letting people use their phones in bed if they damn well want to. It's not your problem.

Let the crack addicts enjoy thing, stop shaming the equipment supply industry..

Meth cooking and facebook crooking is not a crime! The masses have voted, its okay..

You wouldn’t need the faulty analogy if it were that simple.

No one here is in a position to not let people use their phones in bed.

This is the right answer for a individualistic society, and i used to have that opinion. But everyone insured has a financial incentive to prevent other insured people with the same insurance from doing risky stuff. Other peoples behaviors in sum determine whether my premium will go up.

Screens in bed fuck up your sleep cycle. Don't do that, please.

>Screens in bed fuck up your sleep cycle.

Not mine. I can barely look at it for more than five minutes before I fall asleep anyway.

When's the campaign against 5+ hour long meetings in sequence, or any of the other discomforts?

Don't book what could be an email, please. Said mostly in jest, no heat intended.

>But everyone insured has a financial incentive to prevent other insured people with the same insurance from doing risky stuff.

First off, that's a really, really short road to hell you're paving there.

Second, JFC, we're not even talking about hard drugs or motorcycles here. At scale the "cost" of phones are likely a rounding error compared to stuff everyone agrees is bad or high risk. If that is worthy of intervention on behalf of the insurers then you might as well give up any hope of day to day autonomy because surely every other decision is worthy of intervention too.

Please elaborate how that road leads to hell. I'm still not in the position to prohibit others from behaviors, but i have a reason to disapprove.

This is such an insane lens to view life from.

I once used an angle grinder in a reckless way, without proper protection. It went bad and they had to stitch me back together in the emergency room. I didn't have to pay anything, Techniker Krankenkasse covered everything.

How would you feel if i would have continued my reckless use of the device? I would surely end up in the hospital again. The wages for the medical staff have to come from somewhere.

This whole mechanism indirectly makes other TK insured people pay for my own recklessness.

I’d understand it as an inherent consequence of a socialised healthcare system and, because this isn’t my first day, know that policing for the purpose of reducing socialised healthcare burden is ultimately nonsensical and futile because there’s simply no appropriately place to ‘draw the line’.

If you aren’t for paying to remedy behaviour that someone considers ‘reckless’ then you don’t truly believe in socialised healthcare, because everyone has a different idea of “reckless”, and beyond that, socialised healthcare that doesn’t cover people living life to its fullest isn’t really socialised healthcare.

All you’re really doing is having realisation about your true political leanings. This really has nothing to do with the original topic.

Does wearing my face shield have any use then except from saving me from the pain if something happens?

I think you answered your own question by admitting that you no longer used the device recklessly after that event. Clearly money was not the factor in helping you learn the lesson.

Our bodies have a built-in mechanism to discourage recklessness, which is pain. That is the cost of recklessness, and all adding financial costs does is make people who genuinely do need medical attention think twice about getting it.

The face shield was gifted to me and i was asked to use it.

This is some seriously-technical Chindōgu.

Original: https://www.seevua.com/invention/s-0023 (in Japanese, browser translation does a good job)

Just sit up if you want to use your phone in bed?

That defeats the point of, well, being in bed.

I sure wish we'd get iPhones with laser projectors as an option. The comfort such an accessory would provide is superlative.

Laptop-on-face drops (tilts?) can hurt a lot.

Aye. Laptops need hydraulic-powered outriggers, I swear.

Can’t remember which show it was, where prisoners are kept in helmets that look almost exactly like that.

Foundation (2021)

Why not just lay on your side, so you dont have to old your phone up in the first place? :D

Gooseneck phone/tablet mount is the best solution.

I know it's a joke, but I wonder if there's a market for a smaller version for mechanics working under cars? If the movies are to be believed, most car repair work requires lying under the car.

I don't think this would be a successful product in that space. Professional and many dedicated amateur mechanics have lifts, they're not lying on their backs. Even if they were, space is at a premium and this is a really fun and goofy solution in search of a problem.

Doesnt the in bed phone holder mitigate this problem?

Keep the phone above the chest, not above the face.

Where’s my peril-sensitive sunglasses?

After watching Jim Jefferies "Legit" (Great show https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2400391/) him losing his (2013) non-waterproof phone in the toilet because he drops it masturbating in the shower while holding it outside, people use phones in ways I would not expect.

Face drops are also a thing I didn't know about.

The world is an amazing place.

Or just save yourself some time, money, and effort and not bring your phone into bed with you.

Nodding off the use of smartphones in bed seems like co-dependency to me. We need more "this should not be okay" people here.

Well, I guess those options are all for the 'lesser' designers out there (yes, I read the article, that states a solution in which the phone is held by something else then an arm).

The main problem I see with the approach of the designer in this case is that when the phone is held closer to the face (i.e. when one does not need reading glasses), the 'shield' needs to drop quicker, which gives me shivers. (Yes, association with a Guillotine)

Ah, but where's the fun in that? While I agree on not taking that infernal device to bed I wholly disagree on the 'saving time/money/effort' part. I see this a bit like the way I treated games on the early home computers (C-64 in my case) on which I spent many hours trying to take them apart so as to rig the deck in my favour. Once I got them to render myself invincible - endless lives, invulnerable, maximum strength, etc - I did not spend much time in playing them since that is not where I got my motivation. It was the journey which motivated me, not the destination. I've designed and built devices to help me perform tasks which I could have done in as much time as it took me to design and build the utensils but again, where's the fun in that?

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