June 28, 2008
Subversive bathrom scales sends SMS with your weight
Core77 writes up 3 subversive bathroom scales designed by Alice Wang, a recent graduate of RCA.
On "White Lies", the further back you stand, the lighter you become on the digital display. On the "Half-Truth" scale, your partner becomes responsible for deciding whether to lie or come clean, since the display is on the front face of the device, out of the subject's view.
And relevent to this column, "Open Secret" reveals your weight every time you weigh yourself by sending a text message to a desired mobile phone.
Wang offers that "the receiver is then responsible to reveal the answer immediately, or the next time you two meet.
All of these projects were conceived as a reaction to Isaac Asimov's 1st law of robotics: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."
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