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Opto-Isolator: An Arty Eye That Really Does Follow You Around the Room

Plugging right in to that eerie "they're watching me" feeling you're supposed to get from normal portrait paintings, Opto-Isolator is an artwork that takes the sensation into the scary, robotic 21st Century. Its realistic-looking eyeball actually responds to an onlooker's gaze with a bunch of human-like movements, including coy side-glances and blinks. If the gallery doesn't creep you out enough, the video certainly will. UPDATED. More »

10:42 AM on Wed Feb 13 2008
By Kit Eaton
10,615 views, 29 comments

Latest by n/a: I N E E D this for my classroom! Someone please buy this for me. My high school students would freak out! more »