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The Dorian Gray Computer Monitor

 Control your stress now for a better you.
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The Dorian Gray computer monitor would have a running picture of how you'll look in the future if you maintain the stress level a sensor built into your mouse is registering. A camera on the monitor would combine your current appearance with the stress level to produce a dynamic picture of the future you. If you don't like what you see, you can relax and a less wrinkled version of you will appear. Kind of a visual biofeedback machine. See link for an example of the kind of program that will make this possible.
—longshot9999, Feb 24 2005

The future you http://www.ubergizm...do_you_want_to.html
Scary thoughts [longshot9999, Feb 24 2005]

Dorian Grey Image Registry Dorian_20Grey_20Image_20Registry
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Mood-sensitive themes Mood-sensitive_20Themes
Could plug into my prospective desktop so nicely. [friendlyfire, Feb 25 2005]

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       This would stress me out.
—Worldgineer, Feb 24 2005
   

       World - Maybe you could run the program in reverse. Instead of setting it to show how you'll look in 10 years, you could set it to work backwards from today. The less stress it senses, the younger you get.
—longshot9999, Feb 24 2005
   

       Nah, thinking about stress is stressful.
—Worldgineer, Feb 24 2005
   

       I think you got the Dorian Grey concept wrong.The image shown would reflect any low life sites you had visited on the web.
—python, Feb 24 2005
   

       Getting the blue screen of death might be stressful.
—FarmerJohn, Feb 24 2005
   

       Nice. +
—energy guy, Feb 25 2005
   

       Would it show you yourself ageing beautifully if it sensed that you were calm and happy?
—wagster, Feb 25 2005
   

       <longshot> you're on fire. May I present you with the second ether bun of the day [+]
—etherman, Feb 25 2005
   

       excellant idea, mr dentworth could benefit from this, since he ignores my warnings. read: nagging
—dentworth, Feb 25 2005
   

       hmmm.....
Except when you're really mad, you're screaming or throwing stuff or punching the monitor.
(Keep your hand on the mouse, you rage-a-holic.)
—yabba do yabba dabba, Feb 25 2005
   

       Lovely!! We stress out too easily. I like to be reminded every now and then that life is too beaufitul and short to be wasted on anger or worries. [+]
—Pericles, Feb 25 2005
   

       Generally this sounds kind of sad and creepy, but I guess if you spend computer time looking at an ag(e)ing picture of yourself, when you look in an actual mirror you'll be pleasantly surprised.
—k_sra, Feb 26 2005
   

       Hey, I thought this was like... Hey, I've now got a great idea (well, bad idea, it'll get lotsa fishbones, I'm sure, but oh well...). Thanks [longshot]!!!
—froglet, Feb 26 2005
   

       I believe Dorian was unable to actually look at his portrait, keeping it in an attic instead.
—UnaBubba, Feb 26 2005
   

       is that right?
—po, Feb 26 2005
   

       Well he takes a look at it in the attic before stabbing the portrait and dying himself.
—FarmerJohn, Feb 26 2005
   

       Yep. The deal was one of selling his own soul. A morality tale, after Wilde discovered the joys of his newfound bisexuality, in about 1890.
—UnaBubba, Feb 26 2005
   

       Maybe the image could actually be that of your boss, for example.
—Detly, Feb 27 2005
   


 

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