Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex 272
When an UK man was asked to be the best man at a friend's wedding he agreed that he would not pull any pranks before or during the ceremony. Now the groom wishes he had extended the agreement to after the blessed occasion as well. The best man snuck into the newlyweds' house while they were away on their honeymoon and placed a pressure-sensitive device under their mattress. The device now automatically tweets when the couple have sex. The updates include the length of activity and how vigorous the act was on a scale of 1-10.
Re:Hmm (Score:5, Interesting)
That's a pretty trivial filtering problem. It looks like it's all based on a set of load cells, so the question is if you look at the down forces on, say, the four corners of your bed what does sex "look" like? Fourier transforms would convert running measurements to frequency measurements. I'd say you look for a minimum of 5-10 seconds of oscillations at a given frequency (anything from maybe 1 to 10Hz). You then require a 2+ minute span of continuing recurrences. Filter out total weights that indicate only one person (or, you know, don't). Figure peak, average, and maybe std deviation of the frequency/ampitude spectrum recored for the "event" and use those numbers to do your "grading".
This is the reason *I* went to college.
Re:As one getting married in 11 days... (Score:3, Interesting)
As one getting married in 11 days...
Well let me be the first on Slashdot (maybe?) to say: CONGRATULATIONS!
I don't know you or how long you knew your fiance, but I just want to wish you all the best in your journey. It will be fun :)
Ignore the AC above, he's mad because he was raped in an alley yesterday.
And yea mods, you can mod this off-topic. There goes Karma :\
Re:Only one sensor? (Score:3, Interesting)
And next time you are at your newlywed friends home consider how many times they have had sex and left bodily fluids on the couch you are sitting on.
Re:First (Score:3, Interesting)
I don't know how much you weigh, but I am certainly FAR closer to 65kg than to 130kg.
I suspect the average geek is closer to 130. FWIW, I'm 83kg, but only because I've been on a prolonged diet. This time last year I was approaching 100, i.e. closer to 130.
Re:First (Score:3, Interesting)
When I spread my hand from thumb to tip of my little finger is about 20cm (near enough, I'm over on that, and under on the arm span, but we're estimating here and I know how much extra, so I just put my thumb a little inside where my pinky was the previous time)
For height, it's really just a matter of training. You're accustomed to thinking about it in feet, so you can judge more accurately in feet. You're probably just as inaccurate in the inches as I am in the cm (or maybe I'm off by 1 more... who knows) when estimating. That's why they're estimates, not measurements. I bet I'm pretty good at estimating heigh in meters though! (That person over there is about 2m... and person unless they're a child, in which case they're about 1m!)
For games, it's kind of arbitrary anyhow, but so far as I can tell, even USA track meets are done in m.
American football is the only game I can think of that uses Yards, but I admit I have no idea how big a basketball court is, nor how far between baseball plates. Fortunately google knows.
Court is 15m wide by 28m long, in the USA it's 50ft x 94ft.
Baseball plates are 90', but bizarrely there's apparently no standard for where the home run fence is (I guess that's some Imperial uncertainty)