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engadget.com - 7/3/2009

Video: Self-Portrait Machine binds your hands then bends your will

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Drawing faces is hard; and as children suckled at the teat of MTV we posses neither the patience nor the discipline required to learn the skill. So imagine our surprise to discover the Self-Portrait Machine, a device that snaps your photo and then forces you to draw your own face by dragging ...

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gizmodo.com - 7/3/2009

Self-Portrait Machine Forces Your Hands Into Drawing a Pretty Picture [Robots]

— gizmodo.com — No artistic ability? Let a friendly robot force your hands into drawing a realistic self-portrait of yourself.... Jen Hui Lia's Self-Portrait Machine takes your picture and then guides your hands into drawing your own portrait. You slip your wrists and ... (more) Self-Portrait Machine Forces Your Hands Into Drawing a ...

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Self-Portrait Machine Makes Drawing Yourself Easy
Tech Blog — ... If you love self-portraits, and prefer hand-drawn versions, a self-portrait machine is probably your best bet. Put simply, it "snaps your photo and then forces you to draw your own face by dragging your bound hands around until the portrait is complete." Video after the break. Jen Hui Liao's project is the result of an observation that "our personal identities are represented by the products of the man-machine relationship." [via Engadget]