Alex CornellDirector or Design, Meta · interface designer, filmmaker, and periodic musician

Lookout: A phone camera that looks up, so you can keep looking down

29 Apr 2019 · 1 min

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This content was created by Alex Cornell. This content was uploaded by Alex Cornell. This is a YouTube video titled "Lookout: A phone camera that looks up, so you can keep looking down" (created 2019-04-29). The excerpt is a single-speaker promotional/marketing narration describing a product called Lookout — a forward-tilting phone camera and accompanying "visionary awareness" algorithm that streams the user's surroundings to an overlay so they can continue looking down at their phone. The script presents features and use cases with a tongue-in-cheek tone and ends with the tagline, "Don't look up. Look out."

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This is Lookout, a new camera that looks ahead so you can keep looking down. Finally, you can see what's in front of you without ever having to look up from your phone. Lookout is enabled by a breakthrough camera system which allows the lens to tilt forward and constantly stream your immediate surroundings to an intelligent overlay at the top of your screen. A visionary awareness algorithm is what alerts the Lookout display to activate whenever your attention is split between your phone and your life. So you know you can feel free to keep your eye off the ball. At last, you can drive to work while you read the morning paper, or go sightseeing while you catch up on email. Basically, you never have to do this anymore. You hear people say that we look down at our phones too much. What if the problem isn't that we're all looking down? What if the problem is that we ever have to look up at all? Don't look up. Look out.