What if seeing devices looked like us?
April 9, 2021 10:25 AM Subscribe
Oh, that doesn't look creepy at all, now does it?
posted by ivanthenotsoterrible at 10:45 AM on April 9, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by ivanthenotsoterrible at 10:45 AM on April 9, 2021 [1 favorite]
Tone was getting hard to determine before he pet its eyebrow. Amazing project 10/10
posted by little onion at 10:52 AM on April 9, 2021 [6 favorites]
posted by little onion at 10:52 AM on April 9, 2021 [6 favorites]
What if seeing devices looked like us?
What if you shut-the-hell-up-and-never-speak-of-this-again????
posted by wabbittwax at 10:57 AM on April 9, 2021 [7 favorites]
What if you shut-the-hell-up-and-never-speak-of-this-again????
posted by wabbittwax at 10:57 AM on April 9, 2021 [7 favorites]
So, the moving-human-eye thing I'm not fond of, but I definitely like the idea of a camera that sort of behaves like a human gaze in its operation. Modest motion tracking that follows you a bit but lets you walk away, something that looks down or up at the ceiling when it's gaze isn't needed, something that has enough smarts to look at the person talking when there's more than one person using that machine on the call.
posted by mhoye at 11:05 AM on April 9, 2021 [2 favorites]
posted by mhoye at 11:05 AM on April 9, 2021 [2 favorites]
Reminds me a lot of Goldman Levin’s eye interactives, albeit to a slightly different end. This is a nice project but anything that wants to make us muse about being surveilled feels a few years (decades?) behind the times.
More practically, if you wanted to bring this to market I would embed the camera/tracker in a googly eye, surround it with some fake fur, and brand it as being very cute. I think that would actually do quite well.
posted by Going To Maine at 11:23 AM on April 9, 2021
More practically, if you wanted to bring this to market I would embed the camera/tracker in a googly eye, surround it with some fake fur, and brand it as being very cute. I think that would actually do quite well.
posted by Going To Maine at 11:23 AM on April 9, 2021
Thanks, I hate it!
posted by briank at 12:21 PM on April 9, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by briank at 12:21 PM on April 9, 2021 [1 favorite]
Me after reading the comments in this thread, then clicking on the link: "Oh give me a break people on Metafilter exaggerate so much some times how bad could this possibly be OH HOLY SHIT I HATE IT SO MUCH!"
I think it would be perfectly fine, even a little fascinating, without the skin around it. But instead of looking like a camera with a human eyeball it looks like something grown in a lab and ethicists will debate for years whether or not killing it should be considered murder.
posted by bondcliff at 12:36 PM on April 9, 2021 [7 favorites]
I think it would be perfectly fine, even a little fascinating, without the skin around it. But instead of looking like a camera with a human eyeball it looks like something grown in a lab and ethicists will debate for years whether or not killing it should be considered murder.
posted by bondcliff at 12:36 PM on April 9, 2021 [7 favorites]
How about microphones that look like ears, complete with tiny hairs in the auditory canal to protect the sensitive bits from dust? Let's lean into this, people.
posted by vverse23 at 1:07 PM on April 9, 2021 [7 favorites]
posted by vverse23 at 1:07 PM on April 9, 2021 [7 favorites]
I'm reminded of this exhibit at the Arizona Science Center.
posted by Godspeed.You!Black.Emperor.Penguin at 1:21 PM on April 9, 2021
posted by Godspeed.You!Black.Emperor.Penguin at 1:21 PM on April 9, 2021
"We developed a webcam looking like a human eye."
Nnnnnnno, you didn't.
I hated it and loved it. (Odi et amo.) At first I thought it was just one of those overly-pretentious design projects that supposedly make us think about our relationship with technology but actually isn't that insightful, then about halfway through I decided it was definitely a parody of those videos, then at the end I thought maybe it was both? The subject matter of the video is firmly in the uncanny valley, but the format of the video itself somehow also found a way to live there.
Great post, best of the web.
posted by biogeo at 1:22 PM on April 9, 2021 [5 favorites]
Nnnnnnno, you didn't.
I hated it and loved it. (Odi et amo.) At first I thought it was just one of those overly-pretentious design projects that supposedly make us think about our relationship with technology but actually isn't that insightful, then about halfway through I decided it was definitely a parody of those videos, then at the end I thought maybe it was both? The subject matter of the video is firmly in the uncanny valley, but the format of the video itself somehow also found a way to live there.
Great post, best of the web.
posted by biogeo at 1:22 PM on April 9, 2021 [5 favorites]
Skin-on, by the same person, is also excellent. An input device designed to look and feel exactly like human skin.
posted by wesleyac at 1:31 PM on April 9, 2021 [3 favorites]
posted by wesleyac at 1:31 PM on April 9, 2021 [3 favorites]
“As of press time, 3.2 million loyal customers were lining up overnight outside of Apple stores across the country for the chance to buy the slick new abomination.”
posted by migurski at 2:01 PM on April 9, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by migurski at 2:01 PM on April 9, 2021 [1 favorite]
The oog factor is exactly the point. But perhaps it would be better if everyone had a human-male-looking robot in a button down following us around, sitting next to us, peering over and making notes on a clipboard when we search for something.
That might bring the constant electronic surveillance more into perspective.
posted by tigrrrlily at 2:10 PM on April 9, 2021 [2 favorites]
That might bring the constant electronic surveillance more into perspective.
posted by tigrrrlily at 2:10 PM on April 9, 2021 [2 favorites]
"Imagine bonding with Eyecam"
Way ahead of you.
posted by The Tensor at 2:18 PM on April 9, 2021 [2 favorites]
Way ahead of you.
posted by The Tensor at 2:18 PM on April 9, 2021 [2 favorites]
How about microphones that look like ears
...and speakers with big mouths!
posted by Rash at 2:28 PM on April 9, 2021 [3 favorites]
...and speakers with big mouths!
posted by Rash at 2:28 PM on April 9, 2021 [3 favorites]
But of course I want a fleshy, beige, blinking, gestural, ogling turd sitting on my computer...
posted by jim in austin at 2:32 PM on April 9, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by jim in austin at 2:32 PM on April 9, 2021 [1 favorite]
Logitech acquired David Cronenberg?
posted by snofoam at 2:33 PM on April 9, 2021 [4 favorites]
posted by snofoam at 2:33 PM on April 9, 2021 [4 favorites]
The only way to get rid of it is to hire a blade runner, right?
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 9:57 PM on April 9, 2021
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 9:57 PM on April 9, 2021
Skin-on, by the same person, is also excellent. An input device designed to look and feel exactly like human skin.
Louise is the girl with the perfect skinposted by kirkaracha at 10:33 PM on April 9, 2021 [1 favorite]
She says, "Turn on the light otherwise it can't be seen"
She's got cheekbones like geometry and eyes like sin
And she's sexually enlightened by Cosmopolitan and
When she smiles my way
My eyes go out in vain
For her perfect skin
Yeah, that's perfect skin
That thing where you're going "this has to be a parody. This *has* to be a parody!" but you can't ever be sure because the world is weird now.
posted by AFII at 12:50 AM on April 10, 2021 [2 favorites]
posted by AFII at 12:50 AM on April 10, 2021 [2 favorites]
Is it edible?
posted by Pyrogenesis at 3:34 AM on April 10, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by Pyrogenesis at 3:34 AM on April 10, 2021 [1 favorite]
I want them to do the smart home version called Eyelexa that keeps offering you little trinkets to buy!
posted by pulposus at 10:08 AM on April 10, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by pulposus at 10:08 AM on April 10, 2021 [1 favorite]
Shoulda done it in a crouton.
Panopticrouton.
posted by away for regrooving at 12:01 PM on April 10, 2021 [2 favorites]
Panopticrouton.
posted by away for regrooving at 12:01 PM on April 10, 2021 [2 favorites]
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