YouTube – Creepy video of talking robot mouth.
This triggers some fear/disgust reaction in me and I don’t understand it. To try and convey the feeling I’m having imagine if that was like a throat and mouth cut out of a corpse, but that alone doesn’t explain it.
Perhaps it’s that plus the sound. Sounds have always impacted me more emotionally than visuals have.
Anyway, this is great area of study, it would be awesome to develop an instrument that sings since the first instrument was the human voice anyway. Would be a neat loop.
It’s like “I can’t sing but I built something that can.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
I don’t know if that applies here strictly speaking since this is not a complete robot, but it’s certainly a related phenomenon. It’s the same family of creepy in terms of fascination/revulsion/horror as the human centipede trailer.