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earlids
Work like eyelids, but for ears. | |
Clearly, during the bulk of our evolutionary history there were a host of good reasons not to be able to shut your ears at will, but this is the modern world.
Earlids: John McCarthy about audio control
http://www-formal.s.../future/earlid.html
[jutta, Jul 27 2001]
Shutting Out Sound
http://www.hochsens...ron-laerm-tipps.htm
Excerpt from Aron, Elaine N.: The Highly Sensitive Person's Workbook, Broadway Books, New York: 1999 [jutta, Jul 27 2001]
Earlids
http://apo.mech.nwu.../random/random.html
Feature #8 on Item 279. [jutta, Jul 27 2001]
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if any of you are rogue enough, maybe this could be a good open source genetics project |
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You could make them out of eyewax. |
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baked, i blieve, but only if you're an otter... |
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I thought that that was nostrils (I'm prepared to be proved wrong though, can the otter shut it's whole head?) |
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This might actually be happening in evolutionary time. Many people have droopy ear lobes that, if just a bit droopier and fuller, can be folded and stuffed into the ear as biological earplugs or earlids. Those with the nice-looking attached ear lobes are on a different, quieter evolutionary trajectory. |
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Or perhaps ear plug earrings. Decorative and useful. Not to mention a bit faster than evolving bigger earlobes. |
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Well, most people have these sort of stiff cartillage lumps just in front of our ear canal. A few muscles added in should be able to pull those back to get a decent seal. |
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