Every year each of us lose about 192 hours of valuable visual sight time to blinking. That's eight days of blink. BlinkCam explores this problem by taking a Polaroid picture everytime you blink. Further, BlinkCam turns this solution on its head by pointing the camera back at the wearer. Not only does a user of the BlinkCam recover valuable lost time, but they get to see what others see when they blink - frozen forever in an instant of prefabricated satisfaction.
The BlinkCam uses custom-built soft conductive thread and conductive fabric swtitches that complete the circuit of the hacked shutter-release button. The thread and fabric is affixed to the face with spirit gum and the simultaneous closing of both eyes triggers the camera to take a picture. Thus, every picture is taken during a blink, with the eyes closed.
see how the prototype was made here |
