"Human Uber" Could Let You Pay Someone To Live Your Life For You

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http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/human-uber-telepresence-robot-ipad-face-carry-round-live-life-pay-service-researcher-a8189836.html

"Human Uber" Could Let You Pay Someone To Live Your Life For You
Someone can dress as you and walk around – all while you lounge at home with your laptop

ANDREW GRIFFIN
@_andrew_griffin
an hour ago

A new "human Uber" could let you pay someone to live your life for you.

Japanese researcher Jun Rekimoto has developed a special screen that can be strapped to a person's face and allow them to live on your behalf. By dressing up as you and having your face shown where theirs usually is, you'll be able to pay someone to go about your life instead.

The technology is aimed at allowing someone – a "surrogate" – to live your life for you, wearing your clothes and behaving on your instruction. You, on the other hand, would be able to lounge at home, watching events through your laptop and using its camera to communicate with people your surrogate meets.

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[IluvPitties]

1. That won't fly.

"Hey, can you go to court for me?"

[Thomas Hurt]

2. Didn't we used to have servants and slaves for this........(snark)

[crazycatlady]

3. Need to market to students

"Hey can you take this math test for me?"

[unblock]

5. i'm sure it will fool the teacher

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4. sounds like a twilight zone episode.

or black mirror. same thing, really.

[AJT]

6. I sssume that the uber person can somehow see?

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. I'd assume that's the actual point of the invention that people would take seriously

rather than the crap about paying someone to wander round with a picture of you attached to them. That just acts as clickbait.

It'd be nice for surveillance, like a one way mirror, though with the small size of cameras these days, I'm not sure if it's really a needed advance.

[AJT]

9. Getting depth perception right can be tough.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. That's true - stereoscopic vision would be useful for some things (nt)

[Initech]

7. Oh puh-lease! Arrested Development had this idea back in 2004!

[treestar]

11. This is something like the Onion?

I hope.