Slingshot Camera Makes Coworkers Cower in Fear

Here’s a great way to win friends and popularity. It’s called the Sling Shot, and it’s a camera designed to make subjects cower in fear as you photograph them. No longer will your (soon-to-be-ex) friends and coworkers crowd around a tiny LCD screen to see how good they look in your snaps. They’ll already know that you have caught them at their most vulnerable, and they will hate you for it.

The real purpose behind Sung Young Um and Jung Eun Yim’s concept design is to free people from their inhibitions and let them relax in front of the camera instead of presenting the usual lock-jawed grimace. Flip out the y-shaped arms and pull on the cord and the lucky subject will recoil, then realize what’s going on, and then slump in relief with a genuine smile on their face.
You get a great shot, at the expense of being a total douche. Keep going for long enough and you’ll become the Bruce Gilden of cubicles, or find that your packed lunch, which you foolishly left in the canteen refrigerator, has been tampered with.
Candid Camera with a Sling [Yanko]