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# Save web pages with a smile
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/save-web-pages-with-a-smile/
- Published: 2015-04-21T15:08:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-06-15T15:18:06.000Z
- Description: Use facial recognition technology to bookmark the web pages that entertain you most
- Author: Maks Fus Mickiewicz
- Tags: Seeds, Technology, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:25

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**Use facial recognition technology to bookmark the web pages that entertain you most**  
  
[Smile Suggest](http://smilesuggest.com/?ref=protein.xyz) is a new Google Chrome extension that uses your webcam to track your facial movements, picking up on smiles and saving the content that caused them. Advert writer and digital designer [Martin McAllister](http://iammartinmcallister.com/?ref=protein.xyz), created the extension with no commercial aspirations, for this to happen the program would have to make recommendations. Instead, McAllister says the project is more a remark about the flippancy of ‘Like’ culture. Smile Suggest logs what you smile at and then gives you the option to share.  
  
“A like or a share is generally (on some level) seen as endorsing and lending one's name to a thing,” says Mcallister. “I think Smile Suggest asks a nice question about the comparison of a Facebook Like, a Twitter favourite and a genuine smile.”  
  
Facial recognition technology can often have negative Orwellian connotations but a number of artists are using it as a tool for good. So far we’ve seen a [TV that only works when you smile](https://www.prote.in/en/feed/2014/07/smile-tv?ref=protein.xyz), [a book that won’t open if you do](https://www.prote.in/en/feed/2015/02/the-cover-that-judges-you?ref=protein.xyz), and [a theatre that charges you per laugh](https://www.prote.in/en/feed/2014/10/pay-per-laugh?ref=protein.xyz).