New Earbuds Let You Control Your Gadgets by Making Faces
New Earbuds Let You Control Your Gadgets by Making Faces
Posted 03/09/2009 at 12:19pm
| by Andy Salisbury
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Now that people wearing white earbuds has become the norm, it looks like inventor Kazuhiro Taniguchi is planning to make us all look goofy again.
With the announcement of some new earbuds that allow facial expressions to let you work your gadgets, there’s a small chance that we’ll be making funny faces for all the right reasons. According to Taniguchi, “You will be able to turn on room lights or swing your washing machine into action with a quick twitch of your mouth... An iPod can start or stop music when the wearer sticks his tongue out, like in the famous Einstein picture. If he opens his eyes wide, the machine skips to the next tune. A wink with the right eye makes it go back.”
While the idea of it is pretty neat, something tells me that most markets won’t be willing to go through this just to skip a track on their favorite playlist.
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I Jedi
March 09, 2009 at 4:58pm
Hopefully they'll make one where if you make the middle finger gesture it turns to hard core rock music.
smashingpumpin
March 09, 2009 at 8:34pm
....that would be cool, like to switch genres/folders on your mp3 player just by doing gestures like: flashing gang signs for rap/hip-hop, first 4 moves of the Macarena dance for pop, and holding and slitting an imaginary blade to your wrist for goth etc. etc....lol
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...and what does this have to do with porn?
ashegam
March 09, 2009 at 2:30pm
They should ban guys from being able to ware these. I don't want to be walking down the street and see some guy stick his tounge out at me. That would be disturbing and I wouldn't know wth is going on.
johnny3144
March 09, 2009 at 3:18pm
what about winking?
something tells me this gonna screw up the entire facial language we have now...
Queenof1
March 09, 2009 at 3:15pm
no more disturbing to all those schizo folks talking to themselves. oh wait, they have bluetooth headsets.
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