Close X
Sunday, November 24, 2024
ADVT 
Tech

This Selfie Stick Makes You Look Less Lonely

Darpan News Desk IANS, 01 May, 2015 12:24 PM
    If ordinary selfie sticks do not inspire you, try this one that is shaped like a human hand.
     
    The "Selfie Arm" is a new selfie stick design that adds an arm to your self-portraits, making them look like photos of you taken by someone who loves you.
     
    The prototype was created by artists Justin Crowe and Aric Snee out of lightweight and portable fibreglass, media reports said.
     
    The fibreglass arm lets you appear to hold a friend's hand while you take a selfie.
     
    Fascinated by the idea of technology and its illusionary "connectedness" and "sociableness", Snee and Crowe created the 'selfie arm'.
     
    "It's a solution to a quintessential problem -- nobody wants to look alone while they mindlessly snap pictures of themselves. The product conveniently provides you a welcoming arm," the artists behind the creation noted.
     
    "And better yet, it doesn't talk or have emotions of any sort," they added.
     
    By fashioning the stick to look like an arm, you instantly look less lonely in your photos.
     
    The project is meant to be "a direct commentary on the growing selfie stick phenomenon, and the constant, gnawing need for narcissistic internet validation".
     
    However, the artists have not spoken about plans to bring the selfie-arm to market.

    MORE Tech ARTICLES

    Google Scholar turns 10 this month

    Google Scholar turns 10 this month
    Google Scholar, the free search engine for scholarly literature that has transformed the way scientists consult literature online, will turn 10 Nov 18....

    Google Scholar turns 10 this month

    How glass can help build super-fast computers

    How glass can help build super-fast computers
    New research demonstrates how glass could be manipulated to create a material that would allow computers to transfer information using light....

    How glass can help build super-fast computers

    Tool to help women report harassment faced on Twitter

    Tool to help women report harassment faced on Twitter
    The micro-blogging site has launched a tool that will allow women to report abuse and harassment on Twitter and get the issue resolved within 24 hours....

    Tool to help women report harassment faced on Twitter

    Lasers to measure wind speed and direction

    Lasers to measure wind speed and direction
    The idea is to provide long-term measurements of how much power offshore wind can generate and to help designers prevent wind turbine fatigue....

    Lasers to measure wind speed and direction

    Half of world population to use mobile internet by 2020: GSMA

    Half of world population to use mobile internet by 2020: GSMA
    "It is calculated that there were 2.2 billion mobile internet subscribers in 2013, representing approximately 30 percent of the global population. GSMA...

    Half of world population to use mobile internet by 2020: GSMA

    Social media helps get science work noticed

    Social media helps get science work noticed
    Sharing science work via social media like Twitter is good for researchers in getting their works noticed, shows a study....

    Social media helps get science work noticed