Holy Crap, Someone Made a Real-Life Pixar Desk Lamp

Great news for anyone who ’s ever dreamed of their boring desk lamp coming to lifespan as their lovable sidekick . invigorate by the animated Luxo lamp that greets motion-picture fan at the start of every Pixar flick , Adam Ben - Dror , Shanshan Zhou , and Joss Doggett created thePinokio lampwhich moves and reacts to its surroundings with what looks like literal emotions .

Powered by an Arduino , a hack webcam , a mechanical iris , and a circle of servos to move it about , the lamp seems curious of its environment , particularly mankind , thanks to software package that recognizes and tracks faces . It even come out to be capable of playing peek - a - hoot , calculate rather distressed when it ’s not get tending from someone sitting nearby . And it hate being put to catch some Z’s , so it will adorably switch itself back on when you try and power it off . Ok , that part ’s a little creepy .

[ Pinokio LampviaCreative Applications internet ]