Rather than wearing your emotions on your sleeve, a new product called the Hyperface lets you wear them on your face. The idea from London-based designer Eun Kyung Shin is to use a visor-like headset to create a new visual method for communications where we could understand each other more deeply without depending on emotional intelligence. It is the perfect use for learning technology like AI which will get smarter over time and use what it learns about our emotions to operate in more human-like ways.
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