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: 2) by Opportunist on Sunday July 19 2020, @09:01AM (32 children)
One of the features of the mask is that the CCTVs cannot identify you.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:08AM (4 children)
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/16/face-masks-facial-recognition-dhs-blueleaks/ [theintercept.com]
https://www.securitysales.com/news/mask-facial-recognition-pandemic/ [securitysales.com]
It could work for a while. Probably not forever.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Opportunist on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:14AM (3 children)
Hmm... then again, if I wore someone else's face...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @11:08AM (1 child)
To not confuse the facial recognition software that the un-named and un-marked, and un-authorized police that are not actually police but fucking Customs agent looking for booze that I have not paid tariff on.. . ..
So, if I have a face mask that looks like Donald Trump sucking the racist dick of Stephen Miller, will I get in trouble? Or will it just go through as being too realistic to be faked?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @06:17PM
Yes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @04:56PM
Like Hannibal Lector did?
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:10AM (3 children)
Most of us don't like in China so that's less of a problem than you'd think
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:15AM (2 children)
I'm not liking in US, may this be a problem?
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Gaaark on Sunday July 19 2020, @01:27PM (1 child)
I'm licking pussy in Canada. This is NOT a problem.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @04:02PM
Many've been there. Do you know whose man-goo you are eating?
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:11AM (18 children)
I'll order one with the orange clown's face.
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:16AM (17 children)
I'd call that a pretty dangerous idea, one of the key reason the bozo doesn't get slapped constantly is the guys in suits that surround him. Unless you have some guys like that, I'd advise against doing that.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:28AM (15 children)
Even wearing a MAGA hat can get you assaulted by fascists. Dark times.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @11:12AM (14 children)
Wearing a MAGA hat means you should be assaulted by anti-fascists. You are asking for it! Pull a weapon, or deface a monument, and it will even go better for you. If you wear such a hat, you are announcing to all and sundry that you are responsible for 140,000 dead Americans. Think about that. Vietnam only killed 93,000. You need to be punched in the fact, at a minimum.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @12:42PM (11 children)
So you believe that the president is personally responsible for the death of people? Talk about magical-thinking, do you believe in other fairy tales to or that he somehow have magical powers that can cure you if he only wanted to?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Opportunist on Sunday July 19 2020, @12:51PM (2 children)
No. He's mostly the symptom but not the disease. The disease is people who have no clue and deep distrust in people who do.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @06:31PM (1 child)
The lack of trust is not unwarranted - see all of human history
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Monday July 20 2020, @09:46PM
I'm curious, when did we place trust in a person who knew what they were doing and it was a mistake?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @02:34PM (6 children)
For doing the absolute opposite of what's needed to contain the infection? As a - supposedly - leader?
If he should not be held responsible for it, I don't know for what the fuck else should.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @04:48PM (3 children)
If only Queen Hillary would have been the ruler of the land COVID19 would have never happened then?
(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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @05:30PM
What a stupid fucking slave. People in this country are responsible for their own health. Anyone trying to force medical tyranny on people need to be eliminated.
(Score: 5, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:15PM
He was quite clear, he does not take responsibility. [politico.com]
You know, just like the great leader he is.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday July 20 2020, @05:43AM
Well, I guess then in your view, if you hire a killer, then you are also not responsible for the resulting death, because after all, you didn't kill yourself, and the killer could just have refused to kill.
It's quite simple: If your actions cause people to die that would not have died if you had acted differently, then you are responsible for the death of those people.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @12:58PM (1 child)
142,000 and climbing at 700-900 per day. Will be at 150,000+ by the end of July.
All of that in about 6 months.
Actually it killed 58,209 Americans [wikipedia.org] and it done so over 20 years.
(Score: 4, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:23PM
Also the thick end of a million Vietnamese, but presumably they don't really count.
I wonder when their children are going to stop catching cancer from the agent orange?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:31AM
don't forget to vote... thank you [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by driverless on Sunday July 19 2020, @02:34PM
Another is entertainment value. For guys: 1970s porn mustache. For girls: Mileena [medium.com].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @03:00PM (2 children)
When I go outside now all I see is russian bots instead of humans. Putin's puppets are everywhere.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @03:29PM (1 child)
It's called Trump Derangement Disease. Mildly infectious but deadly for the brain of the infected.
The symptoms include persistent state of delusion, incapacity to think and resistance to/rejection of reality.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @04:15AM
No worse than FIBD (Fox induced brain damage) that we so often see these days.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @12:57PM (2 children)
> The lesson I keep learning: if you work on companies just for fun outside your companies, those also turn into companies
And wait for the copycats now that word is out
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @01:36PM
Yeah... Goatse facemask now available on Amazon. Made in China.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by FatPhil on Sunday July 19 2020, @06:04PM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @04:20PM (3 children)
So that is how they are planning to run their one-world government. Everybody wears a face mask or a helmet with the face printed on it for all to see. No personal contact and no more children. Everyone stopped at police checkpoints for gathering genetic data using the virus plandemic testing as an excuse.
We should thank the jews for their hard work in creating this virus plandemic. Anonymity for the wearer of the mask and all the facially-anonymous person has to do is ditch the mobile phone.
The plan is to reduce the world population by a large percentage. Most will die. The rest will have to face the anti-virus virus, which in fact will be nano-bots rendering any thinking ability of the human useless. Look beyond the hype and the "news" to find the truth.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @04:27PM (1 child)
Chinese Jews? Do you identify as a Clippy?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2020, @05:36PM
you think Nixon wasn't being handled by the Jews?
(Score: 4, Touché) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday July 19 2020, @10:31PM
That was an entertaining read, thanks.
Starting the day with a good laugh.
I did, but all I found was conspiracy theories.
(Score: 2) by pdfernhout on Sunday July 19 2020, @06:25PM
Choir scene from the movie (creepy): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl14xh4GSrc [youtube.com]
(Not that I especially object to this idea for realistic masks especially for professionals interacting with the public... Earlier some medical staff did T-shirts with faces too..)
The biggest challenge of the 21st century: the irony of technologies of abundance used by scarcity-minded people.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by stretch611 on Sunday July 19 2020, @08:32PM (3 children)
Due to the ineptitude of certain politicians I came to realize that coronavirus is going to be around for a while. I stopped buying surgical masks (the simple ones, not n95,) and I just recently bought 2 cloth masks.
One of them was this one... ( https://cdn10.bigcommerce.com/s-t3bhbx/products/3205/images/15961/AP3897__26205.1588195459.1280.1280.jpg?c=2 [bigcommerce.com] ) It is amazing how realistic looking it is. I can't tell the difference between it and the real thing.
Disclaimer... I am not a paid promoter of the mask in question and I actually did buy one last week on ebay. (and actually wore it for the first time yesterday.)
And pardon my choice of words... ineptitude really is not the proper word. Both the president, and governor Kemp (I currently am in Georgia) are not just inept, but are actually causing irreparable harm to the public health by denying the facts and utilizing their own political agenda instead of safeguarding the lives of the people. (and it is not just those two politicians either.)
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @03:58AM (2 children)
Would it be okay if we stop being subjects, and instead be adults, learning about diseases and what to do and protecting ourselves?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by stretch611 on Monday July 20 2020, @04:57AM
While self knowledge is a laudable goal it is hardly the answer.
With soylentists being a group that has a high proportion of members in the information technology sector many of them should understand the amount of time involved in just doing their job... and then the corresponding large amount of time learning about new features and ways of doing thing... essentially learning even more about their job which usually includes a lot of time outside of work hours.
Having the time to learn about all the diseases is a luxury that many of us (and people in general) do not have the time to do ourselves. Even if we did have the time, few of us would ever attain the knowledge in the field that experts (like Fauci) gain. And while Covid-19 is probably the most important disease in most people's lives right now, the experts still need to watch out for the next major disease that may become a pandemic. When it shows up is everyone expected to stop everything they do now and learn about it?
There are reasons why I go and see a doctor... to learn about what is happening to me at that moment. A medical professional is expected to learn about a multitude of conditions and impart the relevant knowledge to me when it is appropriate. The doctors are also expected to have enough knowledge to determine the correct cause. It isn't always the case that they know, especially in some rare conditions, but it is expected for them to find out or refer us to a specialist with even more knowledge. (In a similar matter, IT professionals are expected to diagnose what is wrong with a computer system or program and also plan to resolve the issue... without the end user needing to have the years of knowledge and experience that we have.)
While I would like to learn specifics about Covid-19 and any future pandemic causing disease there is just no way it will happen, let alone everyone in the world with the need to know about it spending the time to individually research the problems. That is why we have scientists that specialize in diseases. So that there are people with the necessary knowledge to spread the correct information to the masses if the need ever arises. (like it has now.) That is why we turn to expert advice, and why we need it to be truthfull.
And let me make a final relevant point... We elect our politicians with the expectations that they represent us. Not the special interests of the people with the money used to finance their campaigns. Not even to use their position for their own personal gain. It is their responsibility that factual data is imparted to us in a timely manner as needed. Not a false narrative designed to make them look better personally. Not to be missing in action when their duties need to be performed. The current administration has failed completely and spectacularly and they need to be held accountable for their (in)action. (And yes, I know that on the first 2 points many politicians fail there regardless of the D/R/I after their name. But the last few points are truly horrible and I do not think I need to specify the people I am referring to.)
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday July 20 2020, @05:59AM
If we stop being subjects, we become objects, not adults.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @07:30AM
The US copying India for a change?
https://www.msn.com/en-in/video/news/corona-fashion-chennai-photo-studio-introduces-faceprint-masks/vp-BB14wRU0 [msn.com]
https://www.scmp.com/video/coronavirus/3086473/coronavirus-fashion-trend-indian-photo-studio-staying-business-faceprint [scmp.com]