They seem to think that some sick people think that the problem with modern technology is that it is not meaty enough. Previously, there was some sulfur-smelling portal that connected the underworld with our plan of existence vomited Skin-on interfaces, a horrible solution to the complaint of some serial killers that phones do not have enough human skin.
Now the same people behind Skin-On (i a creepy robot finger mounted on the phone) have returned with Eyecam, which wants to change the design of a typical webcam by wrapping it in a bodyless glasses.
Created by a research team from the Human Computer Interaction Laboratory led by Marc Teyssier, the Eyecam sits on top of a monitor and only stares at you as you try to do something other than its continued existence. A video that downloads its features he asks us to “imagine Eyecam waking up alone” before showing it to us. The clip explains it us in “Imagine Eyecam watching all your steps” and “Imagine’s bonding with Eyecam” before seeing pictures of a man stroking the horrible device and softening the hair of her single eyebrow.
Eyecam website describes its greatest purpose. “Introducing Eyecam, an anthropomorphic webcam that mimics a human eye,” reads, “we challenge conventional relationships with ubiquitous detection devices and call for rethinking how detection devices can appear and behave.” The evil Cyclops tube certainly achieves all of this, as does Teyssier and the Human Computer Interaction Lab of “[highlighting] privacy device privacy issues “.
Now that we have Eyecam and Skin-On, it doesn’t seem like too much longer before we have whole skinny computers we won’t have to operate with a mouse, keyboard or touch screen. We look forward to starting our work days by stepping up to your silicone hug—A perfect synthesis of blood, plastic and metal more horrible than anything Cronenberg or Tsukamoto could dream.
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[via The Verge]
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