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Inspired by animatronics, Eyecam attaches to the front of a computer monitor and looks left and right - and even blinks - during video calls.

The problem with modern technology, some sickos seem to think, is that it’s just not fleshy enough. Previously, some sulfur-smelling portal linking the netherworld to our plane of existence vomited up Skin-On Interfaces, a horrific solution to some serial killer’s mumbled complaint that phones just don’t have enough human-like skin on them. Advertisement Now the same people behind Skin-On (and a creepy, phone-mounted robot finger) have returned with Eyecam, which seeks to switch up the design of a typical webcam by encasing it in a disembodied eyestalk. Created by a Human Computer Inte...

AI and our tasks Yassamine Mather examines the many problems posed for the workers’ movement by artificial intelligence According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), “a new generation of smart machines, fuelled by rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, could potentially replace a large proportion of existing human jobs”. 1 Robotics and AI will cause a serious “double disruption”, as the coronavirus pandemic pushed companies to fast-track the deployment of new technologies to slash costs, enhance productivity and be less reliant on real-life people. We all know a...

9:00 AM MYT In 2020, most universities had to resort to virtual classes because of the Covid-19 pandemic. — Anton Shuvalov unsplash/AFP In 2020, several new educational practices saw the light of day, outlining a possible blueprint for tomorrow's education. Multimedia content and gamification became teaching tools and could well become the norm in 2021. "I wrote my probability exam online, but then I had a scanner problem. I was two minutes late to hand in my paper and it wasn't accepted," said Oussama, a student in mathematics at the University of Rennes 2, France. In 2020, many exams had...