My, Your Tea Pot Looks Just Like You!

Is this the ultimate form of narcissism? A group of French designers, 5.5 Designers, launched their cloning design project (click on enter, then on projects, then on 2008 cloning).

From their site: "Inspired from the medical techniques of cloning, “Cloning” is an authentic service of creating objects at your own image. The aesthetic of this collection is defined by the physical data taken on your body. The object shapes are the results of a process consisting in taking data from your physical characterisics, the color of your eyes, of your hair, your pilosity, your weight, your mensurations, and then these data are treated in order to become coefficiants of the object shapes."

See some projects here.

FBI's Biometrics Database: Next Generation Identification

The Washington Post reported yesterday that the FBI will create the world's largest computer database of peoples' physical characteristics, Next Generation Identification.

The database would store digital images of faces, fingerprints, iris patterns, maybe even the way people walk and talk.

À Écouter (ou Podcaster) Ce Week End…

Science Publique organisait cette semaine un débat sur les dangers de la biométrie, (Quelles sont les limites de la biométrie ?), avec Eric Barbry, Maxime Seligmann et Sophie Vulliet Tavernier.

Les interventions de Monsieur Seligman, rapporteur de l’avis numéro 98, "Biométrie, données identifiantes et droits de l'homme » du Comité Consultatif National d'Ethique pour les sciences de la vie et de la santé, sont particulièrement intéressantes. Il a su présenter sans alarmisme les dangers de la biométrie pour les libertés publiques. L'avis est disponible sur le site du CCNE.