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The selfie stick is a marvel of human ingenuity. Why hand a complete and probably untrustworthy stranger your $800 iPhone -- who, let’s be real, will probably end up snapping a blurry, terribly composed photo of you, anyway -- when you can frame the perfect self-portrait yourself whenever you please? Long limbs are celebrated. So why shouldn’t the selfie stick?

Which brings us to what is quite possibly the best thing you’ll see today: a selfie stick that looks like a human arm.

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Attach your phone, snap a selfie, upload to Instagram, and voila: ersatz human intimacy! Perfect for stunting on the lonely hearts club that is your follower list.

The Selfie Arm project was created by two artists, Aric Snee and Justin Crowe, who wanted to explore the idea of connectedness through digital media. (In other words: It’s a one-off and you can’t buy the thing.) "The Selfie Arm is a sarcastic Band-Aid for a doomed process that everyone takes part in, and everyone laughs at," Crowe explained to me in an email. "If we want a better way to see in the dark, we invent a flashlight. If we want a better way to take pictures by ourselves, we invent a camera on a stick. In retrospect, this was inevitable."

Just be sure to slap on a filter so that it doesn’t look like you’re dating a zombie. Unless you’re into that sort of thing.

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Hat tip Designboom