Pay someone to wear your face and do all the boring stuff

IN TRUE Japanese style, a technology lab has invented a weird way to get someone else to do all the things you don’t want to do.

The Chameleon Mask allows someone else to wear your face and live your life.

HUMAN laziness has reached new heights in a freaky, albeit futuristic move by Japanese tech titan Rekimoto Labs.

Their latest invention, the Chameleon Mask, is not some sick science-fiction version of Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s Leatherface, it is a specially developed screen that’s strapped to a surrogate’s face, allowing them to live on your behalf.

The technology, invented by researcher Jun Rekimoto, allows you to sit on your butt at home and dictate to your nominated “Human Uber”. This person will dress in your clothes and do what you tell them to.

There is built-in communication so while you’re cooling your heals, bingeing on Netflix, you can instruct the surrogate in precise detail. This allows the wearer to attend events, run errands and basically do any tedious task you can’t be stuffed with.

The Chameleon Mask allows the wearer to wear your face and live your life.

Rekimoto’s site explains: “The mask-shaped display shows a remote user’s live face, and a voice channel transmits their voice.”

Telepresence systems like this have been invented before, but they were typically mounted on robots, which could then be remotely controlled.

Rekimoto claims the difference with the Chameleon Mask is it gives a more complete experience, with the surrogate dressing as instructed and more easily able to comprehend the host’s instructions.

The organisation said: “Experiments have shown people are more able to think of the surrogate as a real person,” giving a more complete experience than the traditional robotic versions.

With the likes of Uber and Uber Eats making waves in the customer service world, Rekimoto claims the Chameleon Mask, which is trending as “Human Uber”, is far more involved than that. Instead of merely transporting something, the person is basically required to live as you and behave on your precise instruction.

Is this the human race's future? (Disney/Pixar)

In general, it’s a universally accepted rule that you will annoy people if you get someone to reserve your spot in a line while you’re elsewhere. So is Chameleon Mask the controversial new way of doing this, or will it eventually evolve into us having the same fate as humanity in Disney/Pixar’s 2008 animation Wall: E, with everyone turning into a slob who can’t/won’t exert themselves in any way? Time will tell.