Watched by silent mannequins

Robot mannequins spying on you: what a pleasantly Infocultish experience that must be.

The EyeSee looks ordinary enough on the outside, with its slender polystyrene frame, blank face and improbable pose. Inside, it’s no dummy. A camera embedded in one eye feeds data into facial-recognition software like that used by police. It logs the age, gender, and race of passers-by.

(thanks to Steven Kaye)