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• jtickle
  This seems exactly like the sort of shenanigan that would piss off rather than appease the wood spirits.
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  nkmnz
  What’s next? Touch-grass-as-a-Service?
• weirdish
  I'd only buy this if it included a subscription-based AI upsell to predict and adapt to my adjusting superstition needs over time
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  krunck
  There are societies where rather than knocking on wood one turns one's head and spits. For example: "Grandad is looking well after his fall, let's hope that doesn't happen again. Ptew!"Looking for this in app form.
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  yetihehe
  Knocking on wood was about knocking on unpainted wood, so that you have actual direct physical contact with wood. Remote knocking seems to go in the other direction...
• skinfaxi
  Found this other experiment, part of the same series "Machines Responding to Superstitions".https://www.dezeen.com/2023/10/31/kinky-kashayam-portable-bl...Though it seems less like machine response than humans integrating technology into superstitious belief.
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  TehCorwiz
  If an app knocks on a tree and nobody is around…
• gosen
  I can't explain why but it's amazing! Maybe because in my culture "knocking on the wood 3 times" helps to avoid the bad luck and I lived with that for 20 years, or maybe it's just fun to imagine that you're knocking on the wood remotely ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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  dvh
  It's like FakeBlock from Arrested development
• Cpoll
  Looking forward to one that will let me touch grass from my computer.
• itissid
  I am ratting this out to the Tree Beard
• ButlerianJihad
  Nothing can surprise me. Every day at college, I would walk past these "Trees".https://stuartcollection.ucsd.edu/artist/allen.html#about-th...
• lofaszvanitt
  You have to do it with a right hand, from under. So this is 100% fake.
• classified
  The knockers are missing solar panels to continuously charge their batteries. So there will be sustained costs to keep them running. And how water-proof are they? Apart from that, it's going to sell like hot cakes.
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  tinyplanets
  Or just, you know, walk outside in the fresh air, find a nearby tree, and knock on it...
• slipperybeluga
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