Skulls Gain Virtual Faces

rw2 writes "Totally cool, The guys at Max Planck Institute for Computer Science have developed a way to reconstruct a persons appearence when a skull is found. When police find a skull and want to know what its owner looked like, they generally use artists who reconstruct the face by building up layers of clay over the skull."

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sounds useful

[tlacicer]

How often do authorities find skulls? And how often do they need to know what that person looked like? I mean I would rather see a tool that could tell if a living person's skull was empty or not, now that I could see more of a use for. Unless of course you just assume that they are all pretty much empty, or at least non functional.

I wonder though, will this work with any skull, like a monkey skull? Or would it try to make the monkey look human?

Great, but what are the implications?

[CausticWindow]

I love fancy new stuff like this, but as with all tools which render law enforcement work easier, there is an inherit danger that these tools are abused.

Everytime law enforcement is made easier, you must ask yourself if that improvement comes at the cost of making our society more like a police state.

Other recent examples are Scavenger, Total Information Awareness, and the PATRIOT act. Sure, on the surface they will make your everyday life safer, but at what cost? What liberties will you have to surrender?