http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/ Engadget Comments for Video: Self-Portrait Machine binds your hands then bends your will http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/Jul 3rd 2009 3:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/Jul 3rd 2009 3:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/
A digital camera and a printer.


I totally agree with James.]]>Jul 3rd 2009 4:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/
I personally think this thing would work great to teach yourself to be ambidextrious or better yet, with a few modifications you should be able to forge perfect signatures, lol.]]>Jul 3rd 2009 4:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/Jul 3rd 2009 5:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/]]>Jul 3rd 2009 10:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/
That guy could sit in that machine for a year and he still wouldn't be able to draw any better than he did before. This will teach you nothing. Artistic talent isn't learned. You can't teach your arms to draw from muscle memory. It's something you are born with. You can improve with practice and through learning techniques, but you have to be born with the talent.

And the way this thing is programmed it's shit to be used as a teaching aid, anyway. You don't draw by putting spots here, there and everywhere all over the paper. You start with basic shapes and build on them.

This thing is a novelty at best, and a kind of creepy novelty at that. I wouldn't feel very comfortable being hooked up to that.]]>Jul 3rd 2009 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/
Exactly, this machine draws in a way that no human would draw... maybe we could hook other machines up to this machine and teach other machines how to draw?]]>Jul 3rd 2009 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/Jul 3rd 2009 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/Jul 3rd 2009 8:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/
While I agree with you this machine will never teach anyone how to draw, that this is a novelty at best, the only way anyone ever learns to draw is by repetition. And yes everyone learns to draw. If you have talent then it only means you don't have to draw and repeat as many times before you get it down. Any one who has learned to draw knows it takes many many repetitions to figure out how to draw. Only no one draws sporadically like this machine, so no amount of repetition will stick.]]>Jul 4th 2009 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/i guess it's not really drafting]]>Jul 3rd 2009 3:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/Jul 3rd 2009 3:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/Jul 3rd 2009 4:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/Jul 3rd 2009 5:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/
Screw that, I'm copyrighting that shit.]]>Jul 3rd 2009 3:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/Jul 3rd 2009 3:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine]]>Jul 3rd 2009 4:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/Jul 3rd 2009 4:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/Jul 3rd 2009 5:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/Jul 3rd 2009 4:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/Jul 3rd 2009 4:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/Jul 3rd 2009 6:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/Jul 3rd 2009 4:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/Jul 3rd 2009 5:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/Jul 3rd 2009 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/
1) The person is going to learn how to draw, just as likely as a cat will learn how to sing after you strap a CD player to it.
2) Unless the person is deluded, they won't be announcing to their friends: "I drew this"

*shrug* There are some amazingly good ideas for application of technology, and research is wasted on rubbish like this?]]>Jul 3rd 2009 6:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/
And I think it's more of an art piece rather than 'money wasted on research,' but stay short-sighted, it's cute!]]>Jul 3rd 2009 9:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/Jul 3rd 2009 6:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/
I live and breathe art muthafuckaz!!!!!!!
http://www.nothinggg.com/donk]]>Jul 3rd 2009 7:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/Jul 3rd 2009 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/Jul 3rd 2009 9:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/Jul 3rd 2009 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave.]]>Jul 3rd 2009 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/Jul 3rd 2009 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/video-self-portrait-machine-binds-your-hands-before-bending-you/
(Thought I'd have a go at the UK this time)
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