Eye see You

I have thought how fun it might be to glue a pair of eyes on every single door handle, light switch, appliance control, and faucet in my apartment and THEN start helping the world to see by gluing pairs of eyes everywhere. Somehow, I do not think the artistic merits of the endeavor would be fully appreciated, so I desist.

Can you imagine a kitchen pantry with every single soup can and food package has a pair of google eyes glued to it?  As if the entire pantry was alive with cartoon food waiting to be eaten and enjoying their party in the dark in the meantime.

Can you imagine a kitchen where every single knob and handle has a pair of eyes turning the handle into a nose (and the appliance into a face)?

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In the future, google eyes will be small cybernetic machines that automatically track prominent objects in the environment. This will give children's toys an even more lifelike behavior. One day all light switches may be little computer eyeballs that watch for our subtle eye-blink or hand signal and then just turn OFF, or ON when we want without our really thinking about it.  Of course, you could always just poke, or jab, the eye with your finger to change the settings and that might be a more enjoyable way to operate the system anyway.

Imagine your music instrument or automobile had eyes installed on the controls and you could communicate with them by blinking and pointing and they had feedback "expressions" to help you govern the behavior of the machine without really knowing it.  Wow.

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William Schaeffer