By Jim Hagarty
2012
My daughter has an app on her phone that lets you take a picture of someone and then ages that image somehow to make the person look old. She showed me the photo she took of herself and it’s amazing. Her 14-year-old face was all wrinkly and drawn, her long dark hair was gray. It’s kind of creepy because it’s a still image and yet the eyes blink and it looks like it’s moving.
So we laughed and got all excited and I asked her if she wanted to try it on me. Of course she did, so she snapped a picture and excitedly, we looked at the result. Absolute truth here. I looked exactly the same in the “aged” photo as I do in real life. We could not find one difference. If anything, it made me look a little younger.
So, we laughed about that, I guess.
Then she showed me another app that makes you look fat. She took a picture of herself and sure enough, her cheeks and neck were all puffed out. And, again creepily, her eyes blinked. “Wanna try it Dad?” My first reaction was that ya, that would be cool. Then I remembered the first picture and I declined. Once bitten, twice shy.
Bring me an app that makes me look young and thin, and I’m in.
