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  • Daito Manabe's sensor-based drum machine might actually melt your face off

    Believe it or not, this isn't the first time that Daito Manabe has used some electrical stimulation in a face-twisting musical experiment, but he's taken things one big step further with his latest project. As before, this rig creates wild facial twitches controlled by music (not the other way around), but it also includes a second set of sensors that allows another person to tap on a virtual drum kit and send the (hopefully) willing subject's face into a fit of synchronization. All of which is, of course, better seen than explained -- check it out in action after the break. [Thanks, James]

    Donald Melanson
    12.14.2010

  • Video: Daito Manabe returns with magical dancing spoons

    You remember Daito Manabe right, the man made Internet-famous by his human meat puppetry? Well Mr. Face Visualizer is back with another physical interpretation of sound and programming. His latest rig combines a magnet with a slider and myoelectric sensors (presumably attached to skin somewhere) found in modern bionic limbs to set a pair of spoons into an intricate dance of foolishness. Magic, no... just nerdy redefined.[Thanks, Scott A.]

    Thomas Ricker
    11.06.2008

  • Face Visualizer project turns us all into meat puppets

    Engadget Japan had the chance to sit down with sound artist, Daito Manabe, front man to the Face Visualizer designed by Masaki Teruoka and built by Katsuhiko Harada. No, the music is not controlled by facial contortions. Rather, Daito-san's face is twisted to the music via electrical-pulse stimulation -- 10 channels in total, 8 to control his facial expressions, 2 to keep the music and face in sync. Take away quote from our Q&A:Q: Does it hurt?A: Yes. Depends on the part, but it's like the stinging of needles. But the worst part is not the pain, some patterns deter my vision, sometimes I cannot breath. The pulse makes me see nonexistent white light, and green stripes.Hot. Video and controlling machinery found after the break.

    Thomas Ricker
    10.28.2008