If we are all real and honest with ourselves, we’ll admit that sometimes (maybe even often times), we don’t pick our heads up while walking because we’re too engrossed with what’s going on in our phones and not as much with what’s going on in front of us. Leading us to often trip over, onto, or into things that are right under our noses (but not in our line of sight). Urban Periscope has a solution for that.
While this is a cheeky stab at our lack of attention (their tag line is “Never look up again”), the completely analog case actually works, with a mirror addition that redirects the users vision by 90 degrees so you truly never have to look up from your phone again. There’s no telling whether this product will ever be released (though you can sign up for updates here) but there’s something to be said for the message it drives home: are we really all so engrossed in our virtual lives, we need a gadget to help us view our real lives in a secondary state?
Image via Daily Mail UK
The Urban Periscope redirects your vision by 90 degrees so you never have to look up while texting:
