According to Andre Schneider, every person loses 192 hours a year in visual sight time to blinking. That can't be right: that means we spend three percent of our waking hours blinking like doltish cows.
Whatever the number, each blink robs our mind of the sensation of seeing. Blinks, therefore, are like little kisses on our eyeballs from death, who will one day close them forever.
Andre wants that data back. So he's come up with an innovative creation: the BlinkCam. Attached to a helmet and pointing in his face, it takes a picture of the wearer every time he blinks through a mechanism of thread and fabric attached to the face with gum.
An interesting experiment, but unless you spend all day staring at a mirror, you're not getting your lost sight back. Twist that camera around and see what you're missing! One of those Polaroids might reveal the stagehands rushing by to set the next scene!
