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Face-Mounted Nose Stylus Created For Phones

Posted by samzenpus on from the because-he-can dept.

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."

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  1. Addicted much? by ckthorp · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Could just not use the phone in the bath....

    1. Re:Addicted much? by davester666 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Finally! A hands-free device for the iPhone. Now you can text and make phone calls with your hands firmly on the steering wheel.

      What could go wrong?

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      Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
    2. Re:Addicted much? by RDW · · Score: 4, Informative

      I suspect Dominic Wilcox's surreal brand of humour is going to be lost in this thread. Yes, he knows it's silly. Check out his other creations:

      http://variationsonnormal.com/

      "Cost saving 5 plank Fence - sensor detects position of person and moves fence accordingly...You might be asking 'why hasn't anyone thought of this before?' But the garden fence industry is very powerful and they kill any idea that would threaten their plank quantity sales."

      I vote for him as Jonathan Ive's successor.

    3. Re:Addicted much? by Capt.DrumkenBum · · Score: 4, Funny

      If you are bored in the hot tub, you are in there with the wrong people.

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      If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
  2. Maximum douche by redemtionboy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  3. Really Great Idea by Nailer235 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Michael Bolton: "You think the pet rock was a really great idea?" Tom Smykowski: "Sure it was. The guy made a million dollars."

  4. Serious real-world applications by andyring · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  5. Welly welly welly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    As a bonus he's all set for a bit of the old ultraviolence