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winky
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mikedg1 / winky

winky

A way to enable wink to take a photo with Google Glass

4Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
220GitHub stars
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What it is

A way to enable wink to take a photo with Google Glass

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-05-02 07:38:36 UTC to 2013-06-12 06:21:19 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012013-04-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-05-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 292013-05-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-05-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2013-05-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-05-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2013-05-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-05-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMay 202013-05-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-06-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-06-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-06-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-06-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-06-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJun 10

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Apr 292013-04-29 00:00:00 UTC2013-05-06 00:00:00 UTC101
May 62013-05-06 00:00:00 UTC2013-05-13 00:00:00 UTC110
May 132013-05-13 00:00:00 UTC2013-05-20 00:00:00 UTC101
May 202013-05-20 00:00:00 UTC2013-05-27 00:00:00 UTC000
May 272013-05-27 00:00:00 UTC2013-06-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 32013-06-03 00:00:00 UTC2013-06-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 102013-06-10 00:00:00 UTC2013-06-17 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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"Although functional, the experience was subpar, because the head proximity sensor was very unreliable when next to a lens." I turned off my proximity sensor (that's an option in settings -- "On-Head Detection") because the false positives (like turning on or off because my finger covered the sensor briefly) were more annoying than having to turn it on and off with the power button. So unless there's more use for the proximity sensor I'd say this is a small price to pay if you want to attach google glass to your regular glasses. One possible use for the proximity sensor, though, is wink detection: https://github.com/kaze0/winky On the other hand, there's a dedicated button for taking a picture so winking as an input method I think would only be useful in situations where you don't want to use either your hands or your voice. And there may
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