{"id":124990,"date":"2014-04-18T13:42:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T17:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/cyborg-glasses-let-you-fake-a-good-mood.php"},"modified":"2014-04-18T13:42:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T17:42:11","slug":"cyborg-glasses-let-you-fake-a-good-mood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/cyborg\/cyborg-glasses-let-you-fake-a-good-mood.php","title":{"rendered":"Cyborg glasses let you fake a good mood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    Hirotaka Osawa wearing AgencyGlass.    Screenshot by CNET  <\/p>\n<p>    What happens when you have a job where you have to constantly    look happy even when you're not? Nurses, doctors, teachers,    retail salespeople, waiters, baristas, flight attendants, and    others in the service industry can't afford to appear angry or    annoyed when serving the public.  <\/p>\n<p>    Cyborg technology has ensured our ability to improve both    physical labor with robotics and brain labor with computers, so    why not emotional    labor -- in which politeness toward the public is just as    important as the task itself.  <\/p>\n<p>    Hirotaka Osawa, from Tsukuba    University in Japan, wants to ensure that we all look friendly    and approachable with his emotional labor-saving device --    AgencyGlass.  <\/p>\n<p>    \"I developed a robotic device called AgencyGlass to extend our    social skills and to decrease our emotional labor,\" Osawa    explained in his video \"Wearable Eyes    Turn You Into Emotional Cyborg.\"  <\/p>\n<p>    What looks like a high-tech version of googly-eye    glasses is actually a wearable device that displays digital    eyeballs on lenses that follow people around the room and gives    the user an appearance of politeness.  <\/p>\n<p>    AgencyGlass has quite a few animated options. The digital    eyeballs blink when nodding your head. Tilt your head back, and    the eyeballs look up to simulate a thoughtful expression. The    device is run by a microcomputer with Bluetooth, a microphone,    gyrometer, accelerometer, a battery, and OLED displays.  <\/p>\n<p>    An external camera, which can be worn in a shirt pocket,    detects people looking at you as they walk by so your digital    eyes can respond accordingly, giving the illusion that you're    returning their gaze.  <\/p>\n<p>    Dark lenses in the AgencyGlass hide the users' real eyes but    don't obstruct their normal vision, so they can go about their    normal activities such as reading and walking. More    importantly, they can sneak in a quick nap while attending    meetings.  <\/p>\n<p>    Whether or not your co-workers, bosses, and customers will take    the device seriously has yet to be determined. But if people    can gladly turn into     Google Glassholes, why not wear something that makes us    look like we care what others have to say?  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Continued here:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/become-an-emotional-cyborg-with-wearable-digital-eyes\/\/RS=^ADA3ay2_Mo557Rqt8243uJjUgp9n9g-\" title=\"Cyborg glasses let you fake a good mood\">Cyborg glasses let you fake a good mood<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Hirotaka Osawa wearing AgencyGlass. Screenshot by CNET What happens when you have a job where you have to constantly look happy even when you're not? 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