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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....
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.
Michael Bolton: "You think the pet rock was a really great idea?" Tom Smykowski: "Sure it was. The guy made a million dollars."
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...
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.
As a bonus he's all set for a bit of the old ultraviolence
Thought the article got posted on the wrong date...
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.
... for operating my touchscreen while holding my phone one-handed: it's called my thumb.
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