Designer Seth Haller must have been on acid when he came up with the crazy idea
of a Bluetooth headset containing a camera that's triggered by your
heart.
Haller says the Tri-Eye would be ideal for police and the military, as the camera would pop out of the headset when a person's heart rate is above average resting rate, thus snapping or recording "heart-racing" moments. The camera would protrude like a telescope and record high-resolution video and images onto a flash drive.
To attract people to the Tri-Eye, Haller photoshopped his proposed gadget onto a half-naked woman (below the jump). Who could resist? Any takers? Wink, wink.
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