Phantom Hands
Software that lets users control virtual fingers they don’t have.
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Austin Embree
I work on partnerships in emerging technology. Outside that work, I make games, tools, and experiments around questions that catch my attention.
Selected projects
TheBugLeague.com
That bug on your porch could be your next champion in a global insect battle.
- Find
- Photo
- Card
- Binder
- Battle
Find a bug in the wild.
Take its photo to reveal a collectible card.
FOUND IN THE REAL WORLDYour photo
Your camera. A little curiosity.
Your 
card
Your next
discovery.
- Real bug
- Card type
- Signature move
Sample rarity
About card generation
Biology inspires each bug’s type and abilities. This demo uses prepared cards and sample rarities. Regional sighting data is planned for the full game.
1 discovery
Spottera · Collected
DEMO OPPONENT
Raptwing · Robber fly
Pick your moves. Bring their HP to zero.
RaptwingRobber fly
Lv. 1SpotteraLadybug
Lv. 1EXP0 / 100
FIRST VICTORY
BATTLE COMPLETE
+60 EXPSpottera gained experience.
Lv. 1
60 EXP per battle · +40 for a win · Saved for this visit
60 / 100
YOUR TURN
What will Spottera do?
Attack to lower their HP. Defend to block a hit.
Battle rules & tips
Choose a move. Then they respond. Bring their HP to zero to win. You attack first; shields activate before attacks. The rival’s move is hidden until it happens. Your first two turns include guidance against a simple demo opponent.
Attack or defend. Tackle is always ready. Other moves recharge for 1–3 turns. Shields block 55–75% of damage for one turn. Spot Shield also adds 6 power to your next attack when it absorbs a hit. Warm Glow restores HP.
Use type advantages. Weakness adds 25% damage; resistance reduces it by 20%. Tap a bug’s type to see its matchup. The damage range on each move includes these bonuses before shields.
Watch status effects. Weakened reduces the next attack by 25%. Bleeding costs 3 HP at the end of two turns. Effects refresh without stacking; shields do not prevent them.
Earn EXP and level up. Complete a battle for 60 EXP, plus 40 for a win. Level 2 takes 100 EXP; each later level needs 40 more. Each level adds 6 max HP and 1 attack power for the next battle. Progress lasts for this visit, up to level 10. Rivals stay at level 1; card artwork shows original stats.
Find a bug. Your binder starts here.
Photographing your discovery…
Binder saved for this visit
Aibiguity.com
Make judgment calls and see how your boundaries align with the largest AI models.
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ClankerFaker.com
Study a recorded player round to find the human among the robots.
One human. Ten bots.
Who moved like a person?
How to playFind the player hiding among ten bots
- Watch the roundThe player tries to collect three tokens and check an alarm station while moving like a bot. Play, pause, slow down, or scrub the replay.
- Investigate a suspectTap a numbered clanker to follow its trail. Compare routes, then use the activity log to jump to revealing moments.
- Make your callChoose the clanker you think was human and confirm your guess to reveal the player.
Know the field
Tree hideout
The central tree hides a clanker under its canopy. Watch where it enters and reappears.
Alarm call
When a corner alarm flashes, bots head toward it. The player can follow the crowd or keep pursuing a goal.
Zapping bot
This roaming sweeper stuns clankers it touches. They pop, respawn, and lose their progress.
What gives a human away? Compare several moments: a purposeful detour, a well-timed use of cover, or a change of plan around the sweeper or alarm. Bots can collect tokens and react too, so no single move proves it.
Replay field
Play, then tap a clanker to inspect its route. Arrow keys work too.
A completed player round from ClankerFaker. Replay and guesses are local to this preview.
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Recovered message
READY TO RETURN THE FUND!Poly Network · 2021
Read messages embedded in Ethereum transactions and inspect their original records.
Notable moments
Excerpts from the curated archive.
READY TO RETURN THE FUND!
UTF-8 bytes / excerpt
Poly Network · 2021
A return-negotiation message from the Poly Network exploiter.
Source transaction
25 bytes0x7b6009…b20b68aHex shows the selected excerpt, not the full transaction input.
MemerIQ.com
What year did this meme begin?
Guess a meme’s origin year inside a changing retro desktop.
MemerIQ — Internet Explorer 5Addresshttps://MemerIQ.com/
How Internet Are You?
Guess the year. Find your internet IQ.
- Score
- 0
- Streak
- 0
First appeared
Doge
Timeline0 / 3 answered
Your answers appear here.
Three-round preview · Dates sourced from Know Your Meme.
1995 · Classic desktopReady
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Ben BöhmerCappadocia, TürkiyeExplore music by place.Discover films by feeling and live music by place.
Open the demo to connect to Plex.
Playing from Plex
Where will you listen?
Concerts and DJ sets, mapped to where they happened.
Drag to explore · Select a city
Selected destination
Vibe Hunt
Pick the closest thing.
Choose the poster nearest to tonight’s vibe. We’ll keep moving in that direction.
Open this mode to explore the Embreeflix library.
Every poster is a live candidate. Watch one now or keep hunting.
Trailer Hunt
Watch a little. Pick the closest.
Sample three trailers, choose the nearest vibe, and keep getting warmer.
Open this mode to sample the library.
We think we have the signal. Watch a title or keep getting closer.
The Feeling Shelf
What’s going on in there?
Pick a feeling. Explore every title in the library tagged with it.
Choose a feeling to open its shelf.
Match vs. intensity
Emotion match measures how closely a title fits your feeling. Viewing intensity is the weight of the watch: Gentle, Moderate, or Heavy.
Famous Line
A line you remember. A film worth revisiting.
Explore Embreeflix’s quote bank, or start with a film and find its lines.
Finish by
Good films. Home before your deadline.
Pick when you want to be done. Find a watch that fits the time you have.
Finish times use the full Plex runtime, including credits, with no pauses.
Opening-scene roulette
No poster. No rating. Just the first 45 seconds.
Let the filmmaking make the first impression. Keep watching continues right where you are.
A film chosen at random from the Plex library.
Your personal film festival
An oddly specific theme. A whole evening of cinema.
Choose a theme from your real Plex collections. We’ll pull a two- or three-film program from it.
Find something to watch.
Explore the library or search for a title, show, or performer.
Discover something to watch. Play it here.
More projects
InflectionRadar.com
Connect company announcements to possible business needs and inspect the sources.
Their next move
Preparing payment launches in Brazil and Mexico.
Historical snapshot · Aug 2025Their next need could be
Local distribution partners.
New payment products need merchants. Companies with local merchant relationships could help them reach customers.
Three signals. One possible need.
Jan — Aug 2025Why this need follows
Before reaching out
0001s.com
Explore public videos through their cameras’ default filenames.
DJI_0001A view from above.
DJI 0001
Original upload ↗sizzlekayak1 · 2015
More to discover
Original files from the archive.
Cashout.gg
A simulated casino exploring bonuses, withdrawal friction, and incentives.
SKYLINE CRASH100 demo points
How long will you hold?
A small round from the site’s bonus-credit game.
Notes
About
Partnerships, emerging technology, and things I’m curious about.
I build partnerships between companies, investors, and technical teams. My work has taken me through gaming, blockchain, and fintech into satellite networks, telecom, and hardware.
Outside that work, I build products and experiments of my own. These projects are a place to follow an idea, learn what it needs, and see how it works in practice.
Work background
- Helped raise$8.6 millionInvestor relations and fundraising.
- NegotiatedMission partnershipsPartnership work around SpaceX missions.
- HostedLive launch coverageSatellite launches for audiences of thousands.
Companies I’ve worked with
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I’ve spent most of my career working where the playbook hasn’t been written yet.
I started in emerging technology, building partnerships across gaming, blockchain, and fintech—connecting startups, protocols, investors, and communities around ideas that were still taking shape.
Over time, the scope of that work grew. I moved deeper into investor relations, helped raise $8.6 million, and eventually found myself working closer to real-world infrastructure. Digital ecosystems became satellite networks, telecom, hardware, and decentralized systems.
Today, much of what I do is bring together the people and companies needed to turn ambitious technical ideas into something that can actually work in the real world.
Along the way, I’ve built industry consortiums, structured infrastructure deals, negotiated partnerships around SpaceX missions, represented companies around the world, spoken on stage, and hosted live coverage of satellite launches for thousands.
I’m usually building something of my own too—products, websites, and experiments that start with a question, a problem, or an idea I can’t stop thinking about. They’ve taught me how to move from curiosity to execution—learning whatever I need to, making decisions with incomplete information, and turning rough ideas into shipped products people can actually use.
The common thread through all of it:
learning something new quickly, finding the right people, and figuring out how to make it all work together.
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Get in touch
For partnerships, product collaborations, or a conversation about something here.
austin@embree.comCurrently in Texas, and it’s for me.