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For the Living, a Donated Face, For the Dead, a Lifelike Replacement
- freedomben 9y agoAfter being installed on the new body, does the face look like the donor did or is it changed? I would imagine the new bone structure would change it at least a bit. Would the recipient of the face be able to unlock the donor's iphone with it? So many questions.
- taneq 9y agoSo does this mean (for people who don't go the cremation route) that in a few decades we're going to have coffins containing skeletons with creepy plastic faces?
- UseStrict 9y agoDeath masks were already a thing, castings of the faces of the dead. I guess they'll wonder why we started storing them in the caskets.
- ateesdalejr 9y agoIn the future people will look back on this on wonder what in the world we did that for. And just chalk it off to "cultural burial tradition". :P
- badosu 9y agoTens of thousands years later, future archeologists will find out about this creepy religious ritual primitive humans used to perform.
- booleandilemma 9y agoCould we maybe combine this with the face generation technique mentioned on HN a couple days ago to design faces from scratch? This way we don’t have people walking around with “previously used” faces. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/02/technology/ai-generated-photos.html?_r=0 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/02/technology/ai...
- freedomben 9y agoDude seriously that's a great idea. I wonder if the algorithm for face generation could work 3 dimensionally as well and still be accurate.