The crisis of coronavirus Mask consumption has increased worldwide. With the idea of avoiding external infections, there are many people who make use of this type of protection in public places to avoid possible problems in the simplest way possible, however, something as simple as a facial protection is capable of generating a side problem so absurd that you might not have imagined. Do you know what we mean?
The FaceID problem
Indeed, all those phones with facial recognition stop working (or rather, they do not allow quick unlocking) when we wear the mask for more than obvious reasons, and that is that the protection does not allow the phone to check who exactly is in front of the camera .
sensors like FaceID Apple are responsible for analyzing the entire face to verify that the person in front of the screen is exactly the owner of the phone. By having the face covered, the phone cannot work, so facial recognition is completely nullified by a simple piece of paper. The question now is, do you access your phone and get infected or do you stay without talking on WhatsApp for security reasons? (He understands the overdramatics of our dilemma.)
Made this service that prints your face on an N95 mask, so you can protect people from viral epidemics while still being able to unlock your phone.
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—Danielle Baskin (@djbaskin) February 15, 2020
masks with your face
Tranquility, luckily someone has devised the Resting Risk Face, a personalized mask that will include an image of the part of your face that the mask is responsible for hiding. The result is at least funny, since when worn it is still a rather peculiar accessory. But the interesting thing is that it works, or at least that is what its creator, Danielle Baskin, assures, who intends to put them into production soon.
Getting one of these masks will be quite easy, since we will only have to upload a photograph through the official website and complete the order. Each mask will have a price of about U.S. dollar 40, and they will be standard models of the N95 type, the typical ones that protect the airway against any type of contagion.
The product raises several questions. One at the time of creation, and that is that the images uploaded to the web application must meet certain conditions so that the resulting mask is perfectly camouflaged on our face.
On the other hand, complex systems like FaceID they require a depth reading that compares the original map of our face with the map obtained in the current reading, something that could also be affected by wearing a mask. And it is that as Apple has shown, its security system is not affected when it comes to planting a photo in front of the camera, so we would have to see if this case of half a face and half a photo would pass the test (its creator does not seem to show doubts about it).
Be that as it may, it seems to us to be a very original idea that comes at the most opportune moment, and there is nothing like suffering from a problem to get the most out of it in the most brilliant way.