An Emoticon in the Sky
The
Fühlometer—literally translated, feel-o-meter—is an emoticon, 16 feet in
diameter, fashioned from neon tubes and designed to be placed atop a
building. The device's Berlin-based creators most recently installed it
on a lighthouse in the Bavarian town of Lindau (at right) and are now in
talks with officials in their home city about showing it there.
The brainchild of three artists
interested in the issue of surveillance, the installation includes a
camera that snaps photographs of nearby crowds at regular intervals.
Face-recognition software analyzes the expressions in each photograph
and produces a formula capturing the general mood, which then appears on
the neon face—smile, frown or anything in between. (No ironic winks,
however.)
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