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Face-Mounted Nose Stylus Created For Phones
Lanxon writes "Designer Dominic Wilcox has come up with a Pinocchio-style 'finger-nose stylus' that lets you use your phone hands free, reports Wired. He came up with the design after he found that he wanted to use his touchphone in the bath. A wet hand is not a good touchscreen navigation device, so he found himself using his nose to scroll, but found it hard to see precisely where his nose was touching the screen. The solution was to create a nose extension 'finger' that would allow for navigation while holding the phone firmly in his one dry hand."
Could just not use the phone in the bath....
a fing-longer, he's created a nose-longer.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I never thought there'd be a way to look like even more of a douche than the bluetooth headset, but behold, society proves me wrong once again. Where there is a will, there is always more douchiness.
without the use of four letter words. Lots of them.
I hope he has put some money away for the eventual lawsuits claiming it made the user cross-eyed. Didn't he see the movie "The Jerk"?
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Michael Bolton: "You think the pet rock was a really great idea?" Tom Smykowski: "Sure it was. The guy made a million dollars."
fucking retarded.
The Opti-Grab device Steve Martin invented.
Look closely at the picture. In his left hand, what is he holding? A book, with what? Maps. Why does he need that? His phone - which he's obviously addicted to - should have some sort of GPS and/or map app if he's that hooked to it.
Life. Is. Good.
Simplifying his shower masturbation? Imagine the the horrible scene you couldn't un-see if you accidentally walked in on this "inventor" wearing this prosthetic nose and TCB (taking care of business)? the horror, the horror...
I can envision the amount of mental jackassery that could have resulted in someone actually making and promoting this...thing. What I don't get is why Slashdot thinks it's worthy of any mention, notice, republication, or even ridicule.
This looks stupid. If anyone needs me I'll be in my laptop privacy sweater. http://craziestgadgets.com/2008/04/16/laptop-body-sweater-wool-privacy-curtain/
Is it just me, or do you hate it when people say "Is it just me..."?
We can now have our iPhone in one hand, iPad in the other, and still use them both at the same time! We have now entered a new age of human productivity!
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Hook that puppy up to the "french kiss" appliance and nose kiss your sweetie.
Granted, the whole concept of using an iPhone in the bath is silly, IMHO, I could see very legitimate real-world use for this in the disabled community.
My wife is a nurse on the ventilator unit at a local rehab hospital, and she tells me often of the setups people have there to use a laptop computer with head-mounted stylus units and such that don't work very well for some patients. But I could see a solution like this working wonderfully for quadriplegic or otherwise disabled people to use an iPhone or more likely an iPad.
So in other words... it's a dog emulator.
Even kinda looks like Snoopy:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-05/4/finger-nose-stylus/viewgallery#!image-number=2
Is it April 1st already!?
As a bonus he's all set for a bit of the old ultraviolence
Thought the article got posted on the wrong date...
I had to double check that today wasn't April 1st. This has to be some kind of joke.
LIE!.... Yeah I know.. ha ha ha... *three slow claps*.
Well, that's depressing. Seriously, who would buy something like this? I use my phone (hell, even my laptop) in the tub *all the time* with no problem at all. Keep a hand dry, use your thumb. If you need both hands for whatever you're doing, keep a towel beside the tub. It's really not rocket science.
But, yeah. Laptops and phones in the tub for 6 years now, and I've never had a problem.
Meh.
You can pick your friends and
you can pick your nose,
but you can't pick your friend's nose...
Only now, You can!
From the looks of it -- You can even pick your friend's nose with your nose.
... for operating my touchscreen while holding my phone one-handed: it's called my thumb.
...greater cool factor.
http://www.edmironiuk.com/storage/tumblr_ks1s1jUVJ51qzyrq6o1_500.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1257430849473
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
i for one believe that it was a wet hand in the bath, while surfing the internet, that cause him to need to use his noses.
"You are still innocent until proven guilty. What's changed is what they do to innocent people." by notnAP (846325)
"He came up with the design after he [saw A Clockwork Orange]"
There, I fixed that for you.
Guess which adult item he stripped the silicon off of to "design" his strap on? I'll give you a hint, I already mentioned it.
I8-D
I dub the the "iCyranose"
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
...was to nose it a hair to the left
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish"
Albert Einstein
The teledildonic French kiss adapter, discussed yesterday, might be useful in addition. Do people with these disabilities have more precise control over their tongue or their heads? It's probably a matter of personal preference. There are also those who communicate by puffing into a device, either in morse or some other code.
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
In the picture, it almost looks like someone put on Hannibal Lechter's mask a little too tight.
(In a nasal voice) "I ate his liver, with some fava beans, and a niiiice chianti."
He's Lying
First it was the "remote kiss/tongue", now it's a nose extension for smartphones... There is another appendage that will eventually end up with an extension and "remote sensing" capability.
We play the game with the bravery of being out of range
It makes the wearer look like a f**king idiot.
I believe I saw something like this in "A Clockwork Orange"
THIS!
but his intent wasn't to actually make a useful object.
but, see TFA, his other creations are performance-art sort of designs
this thing is meant as art, not a utilitarian device
so the whole idea that he doesn't just use his thumbs is part of the point, as is the ridiculousness of the idea that anyone other than him would use one of these
Que the lawsuits!
april first?....I hope so
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So when you hit your forties and have to hold the phone farther away... do you just tell a lie?
A wet hand is not a good touchscreen navigation device, so he found himself using his nose to scroll, but found it hard to see precisely where his nose was touching the screen
Check the picture in TFA (not the one in the summary). I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to guess what he's scrolling for.
Call in the dogs and piss on the fire, we're done. If this is what the species is inventing now the end must be near.
This aint Daytona and you aint Dale Earnhardt. So stop trying to draft on Interstate 40.
there's a contrap for that.
I recommend the name "iPhonnochio"
Everyone knows that the ever fashionble item of men's clothing, the codpiece, is worn in the groin area!
http://www.acetonestudio.com
I have heard of people dialing their phones with their nose before. In cold weather, a gloved hand can't use the capacitive touchscreen, but you're nose will work just fine. It's not really "Hands Free" if you're still holding it with your hand.
Most often when it's cold and I have my gloves on. I end up using my nose to swipe and then tap a name to dial on my iPhone. What's annoying is I often have trouble hitting the speaker phone button after I dial. The iPhone sees my head as too close and turns off input to the screen.
Ouch!!! That hurt.
Really?
nt
The Noselonger!
They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.
This looks very inspired by the masks doctors used to wear to treat plague victims.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this prior art? http://www.wetlandsonline.com/ProductImages/strap-ons/se-1514-01.jpg
This was already well-researched in the HCI literature, starting with Olsen's groundbreaking paper on the DataNose around 1986, and extended significantly by Brad Meyers, et al., in their 1991 UIST paper on Nose Gesture Interfaces and Rhino-Virtual-Reality in General.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=120789
What a tool...
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
This is pretty much text book chindogu; it certainly solves the problem at hand, whilst creating a whole new array of follow-on issues... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chind%C5%8Dgu
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
addicted to the iphone? or the porn that's ON your iphone? one hand on the phone, the other on your privates...
Remember kids, if you're not paying for the service, YOU ARE THE PRODUCT THAT IS BEING SOLD.
Somebody is going to pay a small penalty for early withdrawal.
Masturbate much?
HEY MASTURBATE A LOT, DO YA?
Just put something on your nose, that'll fix it!
fuuuuccckkk
"Stratigraphically the origin of agriculture and thermonuclear destruction will appear essentially simultaneous" -- Lee
What a silly invention.
If you really want to use your iPhone/iPod touch in the bath, put it inside a zip-loc bag. Of course there is a chance of a little moisture passing through, so put the sealed bag inside another zip-loc bag. Just make sure that the labels of both bags are facing the back of your device so they don't obstruct your view.
And yes, you can still control the touch screen even through two layers of plastic and using your wet finger.
Extra tip: get sandwich-sized bags of two different brands, so that one is slightly narrower than the other and fit nicely inside it.
What kind of ham fisted simian is incapable of using a touch screen smart phone with one hand? I can do all the required features of my Galaxy S just fine with one hand. I can't imagine a situation where this is required unless you are just too uncoordinated to exist in modern society.
However, perhaps iOS is indeed too clunky to use with one hand. Perhaps he should just consider upgrading to a modern smartphone OS instead of sticking with a 5 year old piece of crap.
Dominic Wilcox: That's not my name!
Interviewer: I'm sorry, Mr Throatwobbler Mangrove
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyQvjKqXA0Y