We showed you a few still pictures of him as a sneak preview yesterday and you can see them again in the gallery below, but now here's Andrew Schneider in all his full-motion glory: the one-man band picture-taking guy whose invention leaves us nonplussed.
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His graduation project for NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program involves hooking up wires to his eyelids which trigger the camera's shutter. "Every picture's a bad one," he says. Andrew, we don't think there are going to be many takers for this dubious technology, but it's entertaining nonetheless.
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DISCUSSION
this technology has been around forever as a communication technique for quadriplegics (see for example http://www.springerlink.com/content/u06210…
the design shown in the movie is pretty stupid, imho. much easier to place a an EMG detector on the muscle instead of trying to detect eyelid movement directly. another alternative is optical detection using IR (see http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.111…
and since blinking is pretty much involuntary, why not just take a picture every every few seconds and get rid of the sensor altogether.
if you want to control a camera shutter, it would be better to use a voluntary motion such as raising an eyebrow.
imho, dumb idea. dumb implementation. pfffthhbbt!!