faces
Toys
Order a MechRC Robot With Your Face on It
12:40AM Mark Wilson | Most of us haven’t grown up to find our own action figure on the shelves of Wal-mart, but MechRC and ThatsMyFace have teamed up to offer you a consolation prize. More »
Music
Probably the Weirdest Way to Visualise Music Yet
9:00AM Jesus Diaz | After his debut, Daito Manabe decided it was time to torture four of his friends by connecting them to his Face Visualiser—a player which stimulates facial muscles using electrodes. The resulting video is funny. More »
Peripherals
‘Ear Switch’ Earbuds Control Gadgets With Nothing But Your Ridiculous Facial Expressions
10:44PM John Herrman | Utilising infrared sensors to measure contortions in your ear canals, the ‘Ear Switch’ earbuds can guess at your facial expressions, letting you control your gadgets—iPods, mobile phones, whatever—with what pretty much amount to feigned seizures. More »
Software
Face Double iPhone App Tells You Who Your Celebrity Twin Is
11:30AM Gizmodo US Edition | Have you ever seen a familiar face but weren’t able to link it to a name? Face Double can reveal which celebrity that person resembles after you’ve snapped a photo of them with your iPhone. More »
Robots
Freakishly Real Jules Robot Now Makes Faces Right Back At You
12:00AM Kit Eaton | We’ve shown you Jules the robotic head before, but now a team of scientists have added real-time human expression mimicking—and taken him marching right across uncanny valley. A team at the University of Bristol, UK, have combined Jules with some analytical software that looks at a person’s face and tweaks Jules’ 34 servos to copy their expression. The results are like a physical version of the software ‘bot Emily we showed you a few months ago…but combined with Jules’ real 3D rubber head it’s a scary, and I mean scary, taste of what our future robot masters servants will behave like. There’s another even scarier vid, just for Halloween. More »
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