Behold, the bouncing selfie ball
Facebook's attempt to assess news sources through its users. Donald Trump's Twitter meltdowns . Instagram's influencers and ad-labeling challenges . Our lives have become dominated by social media and an incessant need to document our most mundane activities. Decades, or even centuries from now, future generations will look back on 2018 as the year we hit peak social media obsession. They will observe a gadget introduced this year called the Hypno Eye -- a mobile photo booth in the form of a selfie-taking ball -- and argue that it signified the beginning of the end for realworld interactions. "These devices were found at festive gatherings that our ancestors threw," a future museum guide might say. "Each of these beach ball-sized orbs housed a camera and a touch screen framed by a ring light, so party-goers could take photos and videos of themselves with professional-level lighting. After that, it would generate a short video clip with quirky effects tha...