Saturday, April 10, 2021

Surreal Eye Eyecam

The camera is connected to a Raspberry Pi Zero and can recognize faces.

via MOTHERBOARD

Today’s webcams are mostly invisible. They’re hidden stealthily behind smooth black glass on our laptops and phones. Thirty years ago, they were novelties used by techies and Silicon Valley types. Even just a few years ago, they were a separate peripheral device that sat on top of your computer like a little bauble eye. Now, they mostly go unnoticed, until someone hacks them. How would your relationship to the ubiquitous webcam change if it stared at you all day from a fleshy, freaky little disembodied robotic eye socket instead?

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