The problem with modern technology, some sickos seem to believe, is that it is simply not meaty enough. Previously, a sulfur-smelling portal that linked the lower world to our plan of existence puke Skin-On interfaces, a horrible solution to a complaint whispered by a serial killer that the phones simply do not have enough human-like skin.
Now, the same people behind Skin-On (and a creepy robot finger mounted on the phone) returned with Eyecam, who is trying to pass designing a typical webcam by embedding it in an unincorporated eye.
Created by a Human Computer Interaction Lab research team led by Marc Teyssier, Eyecam camcorder sits on top of a monitor and just watches you as you try to do something other than think about its continued existence. A video that downloads its features he asks us to “imagine that Eyecam wakes up alone” before showing us exactly that. The video says us to “Imagine your Eyecam watching each of your steps” and “Imagine your connection to the Eyecam” before we see the footage of a man stroking the horrible device and smoothing the hair on the single eyebrow.
Eyecam website describes its larger purpose. “By introducing Eyecam, an anthropomorphic webcam that mimics a human eye,” it reads, “we challenge conventional relationships with ubiquitous detection devices and call for rethinking how detection devices might appear and behave.” The evil Cyclops tube certainly achieves all this, as does the goal of Teyssier and the Human Computer Interaction Laboratory: “[highlighting] privacy issues of detection devices. ”
Now that we have both Eyecam and Skin-On, it doesn’t seem like much longer before you have whole computers that will not have to work with mouse, keyboard or touch screen. We look forward to starting our working days by climbing into their silicone embrace.– 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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