skin devices are a thing and we're scared

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[@deathsyth8888]

Ed Gein: "Hello? Yes, I'd like to order all your human skin products. Expedited delivery please. Thank you."

[@JasonGravewalker]

You sir win the comments section

[@DKF_oli]

@@JasonGravewalker 🤨

[@Tavemanic]

@@JasonGravewalker Jose

[@gold_green2001]

Now that’s peak comedy. Dark, but not too edgy.

[@beeclan50]

Love the tale of ed gein

[@JasonMahipat]

I think this product is just a “fun” side-chute project from a main project of creating realistic skin for robots, where touch interactions register properly.

[@bungiecrimes7247]

It's still shite

[@itslaurelynn]

Or how technological implants in humans might work at some point

[@huskytzu7709]

Definitely quite unique and nice tech but like it’s just creepy xD

[@guitar_jero]

It’s just fiction lol

[@aikpras]

That makes sense... but weird nonetheless

[@billpardy4094]

He’s inventing hyper realistic androids one body part at a time.

[@GenderFluidDragonKing]

the only one that I can think of being actually useful is the synthetic skin cuz it could possibly be put on an amputee's prosthetic limb and they can feel stimuli on it, idk

[@cho-ws4bf]

There could also be prosthetic skin grafts for people like burn victims. That would be kinda rad tho

[@zekfred8134]

One word Fleshlight

[@camicus-3249]

I suppose? Although if I lost a limb I would want one of those cool carbon fibre robolimbs lol

[@GenderFluidDragonKing]

@@camicus-3249 I mean like a pretty cool but at the same time like you most likely to feel sensations, also to be fair you don't necessarily need a gross skin to cover a prosthetic limb could put sensors inside the prosthetic limbs

[@samuraijackoff5354]

@@cho-ws4bf My question is how it would work since well, it's not alive...

[@mrahim1342]

“I’m not like other girls, I use back of device interaction.”

[@flinchfu]

Guy: (noticing a giamongous red dildo with "HILTI" across it leaning on the headboard...) "What the fuck IS that???" Girl: "A device, and NO... I like back of device."

[@_ivy_1313]

Lol...manic pixie dream girl REALNESS!

[@benda8001]

Imagine if somebody stole your phone and the finger fought back!

[@grinning194]

These would be good for horror movie props, like in a b tier horror movie where the main character tries to call a demon on her phone, which makes her phone grow skin and start talking to her or something like that.

[@abloodcorpse3318]

"Are you enjoying having skin today?"

[@RichterPhallos]

I was. Past tense.

[@Mate397]

@@RichterPhallos Your subscription to skin has expired again huh?

[@RichterPhallos]

@@Mate397 That's sounds like an amazing threat.

[@Neo_Geisha]

@@Mate397 Lmao

[@Freyjinn]

of course, everytime i stream, i want a fucking creepy ass realistic eye to look at me, 10/10 will have nightmares about it

[@cariburn1]

Remove your eye and use it

[@LinoLizard]

*When you're stuck in a pandemic and extremely touch-deprived*

[@ruesylvester]

that's one of the most creepy unsettling concepts of these things to begin with. "why won't you play with me and my finger? he loves you!"

[@krimsonklaww611]

The phone finger can now check the "not a robot" box. We're all doomed by our own hubris.

[@Mate397]

"Hooray we made artificial human skin!" "Will we help burn victims with it?" "Lol no, we put it on smartphones and shit!"

[@NewbieIsPro]

That finger has so much potential for 3D model rigging! Using the finger to move limbs instead of moving the limbs with a mouse would make animating so much easier. INVEST IN THE FLESHY FINGER!!!

[@jeremys7131]

I feel like if the cops looked into the inventor of this shit, they may find clues to some missing persons...

[@enderactive5773]

the first one was unsettling yes, but I can get behind the eye that's the funniest shit I've seen all day

[@StevefromPR]

I know right? I would get that eye its sick lol

[@caroline6218]

Yeah I agree it’s pretty funny but it’s so uncanny at the same time.

[@lucian5389]

Thats fucking terrifying id definitely get one

[@jantow6331]

If the eyecam quality is actually good. I can see this as a special camera for cinema. Imagine waking up scenes from the first person perspective or something like that.

[@haka-katyt7439]

Yeah but couldn't cameras with movable limbs be used for those scenes?

[@jantow6331]

@@haka-katyt7439 yeah probably. i just thought if it exists might aswell find a use for it :D

[@Veela666]

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

[@slee7863]

Haha... This reminds me of Buffalo Bill a little bit. Imagine going through an airport security check with a fake flesh phone case and having to explain what it is

[@prettyevil6662000]

Look, quarantine's affected us all a little differently. But also synthskin is a pretty common staple in scifi and cyber- settings. This looks like a proof of concept in small form that can later be made into something bigger like realistic robots or even prosthetic limbs and skin grafts.

[@raptorexo5029]

2020 : I was the worst Year. 2021 : What if we could tickle our Phones to send laughing Emojis ?

[@unholyicarus]

"No one's actually gonna buy it" Me over here with a realistic *thumb* drive I bought off esty

[@NovaKnight_]

if you own this you’re an aspiring serial killer, there’s no way around it.

[@StevefromPR]

Nah the eye one is cool id get it

[@Lukas-mt6li]

yea it's cool bro what ar u talking about?

[@yliasidk9472]

Am i the only one who thinks of humanoid robots in the future when seeing this,it the beginning

[@stefanfarrugia6736]

So if the finger phone thing tickles your hand when someone sends you a happy emoji.. Does that mean it slits your wrist if you get an angry one? *Realism*

[@lukassrensen4788]

This is like something out of David Cronenberg’s Videdrome

[@genomesoldier4192]

Long live the new flesh!! 😁

[@vovin8132]

Ever heard of Cronenberg's other film Existenz? It's actually about bio-organic video game consoles made of flesh lol

[@theponydalek7923]

Company: We made a realistic human skin synthetic- Burn victims: I'll take your entire stock! Company: that you can put on your phone Burn victims: ...what?

[@sus_cherry_90s]

There's this Japanese artist called Shishido Mazafaka (doooo_cds) that creates hyper-realistic and creepy stuff like these. True nightmare fuel...

[@bungiecrimes7247]

Does he make anime feet?

[@sus_cherry_90s]

@@bungiecrimes7247 Nope. Sorry to disappoint you mate.

[@fatmeatm8878]

imagine a full gaming setup made by this man don't play horror

[@reesehelpmeimcringingtohar2015]

eye cam is like the guy from the end of i have no mouth and i must scream. eternal torment

[@juanpagan23]

imagine playing doom eternal with that "flesh joystick"

[@FortunePayback]

Does anyone else remember the popularity of leg lamps?? Trust me, these things will definitely sell.

[@bradwigger5785]

If you read the text on the screen at 9:34 the middle paragraph states that "Eyecam is a design fiction prototype exploring potential futures of sensing devices." Perhaps the designer is just trying to bring awareness to the fact that sensing devices are all around us on a daily basis and are essentially ignored for the most part. By making it look like a "real" eye it really solidifies that its always watching and I'm pretty sure is meant to just be a statement on all the info we let our sensing devices see on a daily basis.

[@tr1f1ght3r]

That first one looks like it could be pretty useful for digital sculpting. Depending on how accurate the inputs are, it could help a lot on getting the actual depth/pressure one would use on clay

[@maximillian1109]

I think this is literally just a funny way of showing of new tech. Imagine when this type of stuff can be used for prostetics and shit.

[@miguelborrell798]

This channel is amazing guys, it’s super funny and I love it.

[@quesoblanco444]

Somebody really likes Cronenbergr's movie Existenz, and maybe Rene Cardona's Santa Clause.

[@Bee-zr5pb]

This is basically if Ed Gein was a tech developer

[@krimsonklaww611]

Finally, now I can get the Necronomicon Ex Mortis on my Kindle.

[@jferson]

Smart phone with a finger to move the uprising has begun

[@baphomathedude8057]

This feels like a sort of resume. All this demonstrates knowledge in programming, robots, and skin interface.

[@yaboimax6356]

I can't wait until they come out with these as Fleshlights. I'll buy one.

[@Oldviec7]

But if it will have an eyeball tho?

[@yaboimax6356]

@@Oldviec7 hell no, I just want something as realistic as possible. But this stuff would be really cool on a zombie go boom head or something.

[@jademoon7938]

"The intensity of the touch controls the size of the emojis" = "Emojis get bigger and smaller depending on how hard you touch/press into it". I don't think any of this is for sale, they're fictional and designed to trigger discussions on the future of devices that can sense and interact with the environment. They are creepy and no one would want them lol. Idk I'd probably have chosen another direction if my goal is was to spark ideas and future considerations of intuitive tech but I'm not out there making this stuff.

[@monkey-choppa2751]

Just watched the Rango video. Now I get to watch This

[@whitecreamymilk8436]

There is actually good application for these products. Specifically the fact he put faux nervous tissue inside the thing. This is one step closer to say, plug in the body phones, and controllers, or even just sensitive controllers that can sense your heart rate etc for horror games and the like. There is a very practical use.

[@gregbrown8881]

The only real use I see for any of this stuff would be giving machines/robots skin that could detect when they are touched. The eyeball camera is just creepy, though. I can't see why anyone would want that looking at them all day.

[@riccardosartori3822]

I feel like these would be an awesome addition to the Amazon echo that follows you when you speak, imagine it having eyes and Alexa talking to you with an actual f**king mouth

[@Tokyolightts]

this is cursed.

[@VillainousMaximus]

Wicked 😂

[@levi_octavian]

I could see the product definitely being used as a sensory type of thing, but they could have kept the whole skin feeling without it looking like a chunk of sliced off flesh.

[@Sophia-vk5bq]

Leatherface "I'll take it all." Skin Salesmen "That will be 45billion dollars." Chainsaw revs.

[@annawanna5995]

Honestly, this is the body horroresque sci fi future I've been looking forward to. If I weren't so poor, I't probably buy their, I don't know, everything. It's beautiful and you've kinda advertised it for me instead of doing the opposite

[@h0ojn-c1j]

this is really fucking weird but honestly a pretty cool idea, this guys pretty talented

[@nihilismistheonlyway4680]

what scares me about this is it's getting harder and harder to tell between a troll and a legit product 😂

[@itchychalupa2704]

All it takes is one scientist with a fetish

[@DymphnaWolf]

The eye camera part comes off as a commentary on privacy in an era where people have accepted that cameras are everywhere, to the point that they don't think about it. Having a human eye staring at you makes you feel like you're being watched, and forces you to think about the camera pointing at you. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but that's the impression it gave me.

[@kurosaki94ichigo]

"So you can actually picture the cia or fbi checking on you" If you buy one of those fbi better be checking on you non-stop. No way in hell you aren't a serial killer or something

[@necroticdemonart]

Bro this must have inspired the flesh born character in ‘only cans’

[@eurida3435]

'Your scientists were so preoccupied whether they could and didn't ask if they should"

[@cannedcans7883]

This is the beginning of Detroit: becoming human...

[@ledingdong1492]

I imagine the skin phone is for people with robotic limbs or implanted tech as in it won't be used on a phone that's just a way to demonstrate

[@OminousKnightXIX]

This is something that would be on an Interdimensional Cable episode of Rick and Morty.

[@denisrus4787]

People after suffering house fires watching this like: TAKE MY MONEY 💵💵💵💵

[@vovin8132]

Imagine waking up and Eyecam is looking at you

[@huimang94]

Tbh that eyecam is kinda dope for sentimental unsettling horror purposes

[@-desertpackrat]

I'm only clicking this horrific thumbnail because I'm sure I'll be safe with your hilarious commentary and you will keep me sane.

[@Crybaby-Media]

Weird thing is . Sorbonne university , which is the first in the list of sponsors or whatever . Is where Issei Sagawa the cannibal went and met his victim

[@ItsYaBoiV]

You can't tell me people wouldn't buy a robo-finger for vile purposes. If these things became commercially available, they'd get a category on the Hub before you know it.

[@crybooii2389]

The All Tomorrow's creature is now seeking our reality.

[@justhumanthings6711]

It doesn’t even look like skin, it looks like coffee flavored mochi

[@wisconsinking323]

If Ed Gein were still alive he'd probably use that skin instead of wallpaper on his house.

[@lucian5389]

*"SkinOn, a product for psychopaths, by psychopaths"*

[@henrywilkerson5681]

we spend so much time wondering if we can to the point where we don't think if we should

[@__-py5wk]

3:50 alienbacon discovers their first cokenail

[@carnasondrakith2553]

if i had a giant mansion i would have a themed room made of synthetic skin

[@VillainousMaximus]

Skin couch on a skin carpet, with a skin lamp and skin tv.

[@JohnSmith-xd4eu]

If Hannibal Lecter had a fucking etsy this shit would be it.

[@ant33rux]

His talent and knowledge, as well the products he makes could be a lot of valuable to the film industry.

[@Djcausome]

I feel like they could do something really cool if they used clay, artists could create something out of it and throw computer could render it and animate it it could potentially help CGI tons

[@escapedgoat5865]

💜🖤💛💜🖤💛 its called cutting the middle man out of human socialization.💛🖤💜💛🖤💜

[@Tavemanic]

Best way to sum up pig and elvis: weird but likeable

[@nellyb1594]

Holy shit man, finally! Finally a brand is recognizing the small, very intents community of serial killers who havent been caught yet, and are starting to get REAL cocky that they never will be. Something to make them feel like they're taunting everyone by having phone case made out of skin. Took long enough....shesh

[@Bee-zr5pb]

Good ol Eddie Gein's dream is finally going mainstream!

[@psimiami4253]

I want a whole fighting game tournament to take place where the only joystick you can use is this skin thing

[@tropicaldisaster8135]

Crying because I love scratching at the back of my phone. I would buy this for the sake of my non-existent attention span to just play with it Edit: Okay I like the phone finger too. It's so cute

[@nataliasanchez9540]

Usually this stuff is done to get a better understanding of our sensory system or to test the limits of the knowledge we have so far.

[@nunpho]

"one titty". 😆 Its weird but all good imo. We can learn through experimentation and just having fun with it. He could make or discover something important in the future.

[@swimfectionist97]

For all of those cannibals out there. I would also love to know: why?

[@CameronKujo]

From all the cannibals out here: why not?

[@voidedzofficial2944]

u have a nice eye color @Raven Higgins

[@Loderyod]

@@CameronKujo For all of those cannibals out there: understandable, have a great day

[@bungiecrimes7247]

You got a lot of meat on you. Want to hang out sometime?

[@AlexA-xo9hx]

Humanity is just falling off the world at this point

[@alexlu_]

sounding like a flat-earther there... 😧

[@AlexA-xo9hx]

@@alexlu_ i’dsay that If stuff like this continues to exist we’ll flatten the earth with our incredible knowledge

[@cooledraak4989]

Why do people not realise those prototypes are just the first steps to making humanlike robots that feel and see and sense the way humans do?

[@bungiecrimes7247]

@@cooledraak4989 because nobody asked for robots. Only the people who want smart water bottles want that shet

[@cooledraak4989]

@@bungiecrimes7247 Thats stupid. There are a shitton of people interested in the idea of life-like humanoid robots. Also there could be a ton of uses for robots like that. Its very ignorant to think that those ideas are stupid and useless...

[@FabricFool]

Oh wow, scary AF... And then I think about my friend with the quadriplegia, who literally ran a local newspaper from his chair, typing everything with a stick in his mouth. I think about people who might need skin grafts, from burn wounds or whatever. Anything else is just too horrible to consider...

[@yeetoskeeto913]

I think these things are mostly a form of art lmao. If the guy's art can cause a weird reaction, he's doing his job lmao. Art is usually meant to get a reaction. Though I do think this kind of stuff can be used as horror movie props or bought by collector's who like bizarre/odd aesthetics. You should definitely try checking out unnecessary inventions on Instagram. Their content is basically making inventions that solve problems that don't need solutions in the first place lol.

[@cooledraak4989]

I am pretty sure this thing wasnt really ment to be a usefull product that people should be able to buy, but more like a test/prototype of a sensor device that kind of replicates skin in the means of feeling where it is touched and how. The concept seems interesting. I bet they just put it on a phone because it was easy to get results with becasue they could just wire the sensors to functions on the phone or whatever. I believe it would be more interesting if they would test these robot skins on actual robots to make them more humanlike or something. I think they are ahead of their time. They probably thought: "since human like robots aren't that accurate yet and very expensive let's put it on a phone".

[@bungiecrimes7247]

A test can still be considered a waste of a talent.

[@cooledraak4989]

@@bungiecrimes7247 lol no it's not a waste of tallent though it could actually have a use in the future.

[@drewmode227]

David Cronenberg is having a field day with this one.

[@jonf5975]

this reminds me of Existenz a lot. somewhere david cronenberg is like „told ya“ right now

[@sloonder3342]

The only purpose I would think of for this product would be to add nerves onto a robot. But the way they are portraying it is to be used primarily on phones and computers?

[@dannydethanos6994]

Those are definitely the hands of a man that made the skin wrapped phone

[@Mangaka-ml6xo]

Could serve as a stepping stone for fake limbs having a certain amount of feeling, just a question of plugging it in into a brain and start trying to interface both together. I say that, but I have not idea how far the field is already on the medical side, they might be way further ahead.

[@nellyb1594]

1:40 That is exactly the kind of question that tells you that your technology has gone way too far..

[@dvaerggrisene]

This is just a 2021 remake of Videodrome.

[@wisconsinking323]

Is that a movie?

[@dvaerggrisene]

@@wisconsinking323 yes

[@mzadro7]

Their past might’ve not been the best, but MY GOD this channel is the best

[@TheIllusiveBlane]

I was horrified and then became terrified when I read university of Bristol. I live in Bristol UK, I don't need this pain.

[@VolatileVolcarona]

I think of it as the next step towards intradermal devices like in movies where you have an implant that projects a hologram from your skin that you can just use as a tablet or something

[@RobbieManic]

This is literally what Ed Gein would have gotten up to if he was alive today.

[@raikupwns243]

I hope these are like a weird art-tech projects and not like, something someone thinks is going to get investors

[@Vandoe666]

I watched enough eXistenZ to know where this is going

[@crispycreme7563]

This seems like a testing kinda thing for fake skin to be used as an interface for robots or prosthetics, not for phones or computers