Touchy wants to heal human anxiety for others

Oct 7, 2015 09:36 GMT  ·  By

Imagine being possessed by a camera. Well, that's what Touchy actually does. You put it on your head and it keeps you blind until someone decides to help you.

Wearing Touchy makes people terribly... touchy, since it's the only way to actually get back to seeing things around them. To use Touchy, you have to put the head-mounted camera on your head as if it were a helmet and then see through some weird eye holes until the camera decides to pull down the shutters and turn you blind.

Your only way of regaining back your vision is by grabbing someone and holding him for ten seconds until the camera takes a photo and displays it at the back of the "helmet camera."

This is a very awkward invention of Hong Kong artist Eric Siu, which allows users to basically take people around them by surprise and even catch their terrified expressions when 10 seconds of physical contact horror have past.

Clearly, the device means no harm and eventually generates amusement from the blind user's hapless victims since they now must share ten seconds of unexpected physical contact with a man they never met.

Apparently, Eric Siu believes that this camera is meant to heal social anxiety, and draw people closer via a bit of fun and awkwardness, but probably more awkwardness than fun.