Anthropomorphism is the ability to see a face in anything. Whether it’s seeing Jesus on a grilled cheese sandwich, or just seeing faces in cars by looking at their headlights as eyes. It’s fairly common for humans to look for faces – we developed this pattern-matching ability to recognize predators in the wild… now we’re using it to create the funniest PS5 controller stands ever.
The ‘Face’ as PRINTMOTION calls it, is a fairly simple stand that turns your PS5 into an odd face, with the joypads becoming eyes and the hand grips on the side being the world’s silliest pairs of pigtails. I honestly don’t know what makes this particular design so funny, but it’s probably the juxtaposition of something as advanced as a PlayStation controller against something as silly as a fairly blank face staring at you with absolutely zero thought behind those eyes.
Designer: PRINTMOTION
The stand is currently available as a 3D printable file on CULTS3D for a low price of $4.39. That way, you buy the stand and print as many of it as you want. Pretty cheap if you ask me. You can choose your own color, material, or even optimize the stand to have a pass-through cable for charging, a nosering, or a moustache. Something to make the ‘face’ look like it has a little gravitas. For now, it just looks like a dude wearing the silliest pair of glasses along with pigtails on either side. I just can’t take it seriously.
Is it me, though? Or do you find the stand odd too? The photo above literally makes it look like a Victorian-era maid, with her bonnet on her head. Those tiny beady eyes feel insect-like. It’s weirdly Lovecraftian. Maybe there’s a market for this, I don’t know. I would personally modify this thing to look a little more self aware. Maybe a cyberpunk face mask, maybe the tongue sticking out. Anything but this!
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