S Korean designer creates 'Third Eyes' for 'smartphone zombies'
A good South Korean industrial designer has think of a satirical solution for "smartphone zombies" who can't have their eyes away from their display long more than enough to avoid themselves walking right into a wall or other obstacle.
Paeng Min-wook, 28, has developed a good robotic eyeball he comes with dubbed "THE 3RD Vision", which obsessive mobile phone users may strap with their foreheads to allow them to browse injury-free on the run.
These devices opens its translucent eyelid whenever it senses the user's head has been lowered to look at a smartphone. When an individual comes within one or two meters of an obstacle, these devices beeps to warn of the impending danger.
"It is the start looking of long term mankind with three eyes," Paeng, a postgraduate found in innovation design engineering at the Royal School of Art and Imperial University London, told Reuters as he demonstrated make use of The Third Eyesight around Seoul. "As we can not take our eyes off from smartphones, the extra attention will be wanted in potential."
Paeng's invention runs on the gyro sensor to measure the oblique position of the user's throat and an ultrasonic sensor to calculate the distance between the robotic eye and any obstacles. Both sensors happen to be associated with an open-source single-table microcontroller, with battery pack.
Paeng's demonstration of these devices found in Seoul garnered focus from passersby.
"I thought he looked like an alien with an eyes on his forehead," Seoul resident Lee Ok-jo said. "Nowadays many young persons will get into crashes when using their cellular phone. This might be best for them."
Paeng said THE 3RD Eye was first meant as a good warning, not a real option for smartphone addicts who exactly won't focus on where they are going.
“By presenting this satirical solution, I hope people would recognize the severity of their gizmo addiction and appearance back again at themselves,” he said.
Source: japantoday.com
