Science

What Is This?

Stare hard at this photo. Stare really hard. Can you guess what you’re looking at? No? Maybe because your eyes aren’t working hard enough? Maybe you should squint your eyes? OK. It’s your eyeballs. Your amazing, microscopically structured eyeballs. Squint harder!


March 20, 2011
Gadgets

Freakish Kinect Eyeball Hack Follows You Around The Room

What could be more fun than a Kinect-powered eyeball that blinks to life when you enter the room and then follows you around until you leave? A lot of things, actually, because this is terrifying.


February 3, 2011
Gadgets

Add Giant Blinking Eyes To Your Gadgets To Give Them Life

Gizmodo AU

Remember as a kid how a couple of googly eyeballs stuck to a rock could turn it into a pet? Well, this is the 21st century version: a pair of giant blinking eyes that can turn any gadget into a seemingly living companion.


July 8, 2010

Chicago’s Watchful Eye

Public art can be pretty weird. But rarely is it as weird as “EYE”, an unblinking, 9m eyeball that’s now scaring the dickens out of Chicago.


July 29, 2008

We Always Wanted a Custom Eyeball Lamp

For those of you who’ve looked around their apartment and thought, “You know what this place needs? A lamp that’s modelled after my eyeball!”—your day has finally come. 5.5 Designers will create your own custom hand-blown glass eye. You fill out their order form picking from various eye colour swatches and including some pics of your peepers, and through the magic of creepy mail ordering, an anatomical illumination device will show at your door. But to be fair, seeing Murano-based Glassblower Livio Serena at work does make the whole thing seem a lot more “artsy” than “psycho-killery”: