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Mask company makes custom coverings that look like your face:
With travel companies and countries around the world finally coming down on the side of mandatory facial coverings in public, many feel anxious that surgical masks eroding their individuality. Fortunately one artist turned-accidental-entrepreneur has come up with a solution to social hygiene that is as idiosyncratic as you are.
Unsurprisingly these custom 'Face ID Masks' began as a practical joke. With surgical masks printed to order from selfie photos, the company began taking orders on the website "Resting Risk Face.com" in June.
Using user submitted photos the company makes facial coverings that match your features and skin tone – with the pledge to make the wearer "more easily recognisable during viral pandemics."
The result is uncanny. Apparently the coverings are convincing enough to "unlock devices" using facial recognition.
For artist Danielle Baskin the project had started "just for fun".
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @05:19PM (2 children)
It wouldn't have been as bad, but given how irrationally angry she makes conservatives we would probably be seeing the same anti-mask nonsense. At least masks wouldn't have been stolen by the feds for Trump cronies to scalp, and funding for testing would have helped us contain the spread.
At a minimum thousands of lives would ha e been spared.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @06:06PM (1 child)
> At a minimum thousands of lives would ha e been spared.
For a week or so, only to be sent into nursing homes then put on ventilators by democrat governess.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2020, @11:11PM
Ick, whatever whataboutism lets you sleep at night.