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Self-Portrait Machine Forces Your Hands Into Drawing a Pretty Picture

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No artistic ability? Let a friendly robot force your hands into drawing a realistic self-portrait of yourself.

Jen Hui Lia’s Self-Portrait Machine takes your picture and then guides your hands into drawing your own portrait. You slip your wrists and index fingers into the straps, hold a pen and the machine does the rest.

It’s sort of gimmicky now, sure, but imagine the next generation of this thing: instead of a picture as the source, it uses your brainwaves to put down whatever you’re picturing in your head on paper. Who needs talent? [We Make Money Not Art]

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