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I'd like hands on my head, instead of ears. When not in use, they could remain in a cupped position, hence functioning like an ear. However, you could use them to hold a cigarette while you post ideas on œbakery or plug your ears while using power tools, or simply use both of them to shovel food into
your mouth.
Unworthy passive model
http://www.geocitie...ther/handphone.html
[Ling, May 21 2007]
Your Inspiration?
http://www.engadget...ird-ear-in-forearm/
Saw it on engadget not too long ago. [twitch, May 24 2007]
[link]
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//I'd like hands on my head, instead of ears// |
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//or plug your ears while using power tools// |
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Wait... what ears? I thought we replaced them with hands. |
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Top five reasons why this is a great idea: |
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5. It could enable people to do killer imitations of the cute dinosaur that eats the fat guy in "Jurassic Park"; |
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4. Chin-operated steering wheels; |
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3. I could wear TEN earrings at THE SAME TIME; |
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2. Once people realized the new hazards involved in giving others the finger, that childhood "nyah-nyah" gesture would come back with a vengeance; |
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1. When delighted, I could actually clap my face. |
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11. I could wash my hair while my other hands wash elsewhere.
10. No more losing a hat in the wind.
9. Doubles the expressive density for ASL
8. Near-sighted readers can hold the book/magazine REALLY CLOSE
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7. Now one person can demonstrate 2 of the see/hear/speak-no-evil gestures at one time
6. "My you're a hand-some man."
[Marginal note: I have this recurring dream about having a detachable penis (with auxiliary attachments).] |
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[PotatoStew] By the looks of it, the inner ear is remaining intact; only the chunks of cartilage on the sides of one's head is being replaced. |
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Let's not forget:
17. You can halve the time it takes each morning to clean your eye goo. |
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lemon: maybe,but they sure would be handy, don't you think? :o) |
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You'd look so hideous, you'd never get a date again! |
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<answer in the form of a question> What is WIBNI?
Wouldn't It Be Nice If
24. You could change hearing aid batteries without taking hands off steering wheel.
23. You could drive while groping at partner.
22. You could talk on cell phone while driving with both lower hands.
21. You could wave at everybody while in a parade.
20. You could wave at a Taxi while holding other items.
19. You could win Heavyweight Championship by hitting opponent with an uppercut, a left hook, a jab, and a haymaker at the same time.
18. You could conduct a symphony with two wands.
17. You could go postal and protect your hearing at the same time. |
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seal10- I could hold a cigarette, a beer, the remote, and do _other things_ at the same time. Why would I ever need a date? |
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Ohhh, I get it now! At first I thought this was a suggestion to replace literary references to *ears* with *hands*, as in *keep your hand to the ground*, and *Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your hands*. |
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This idea gets my croissant, hands down. |
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31. Now I can count all the way to 31! |
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UnaBubba: The image conjured up by that last comment...! When swimming the earhands could function like diving planes on a sub. |
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1%: You don't need fingers there to wear ten earrings. My brother has that many in one ear. |
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pretty sure that playing poker would be easier - hide your expression with your cards |
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He really should have married more carefully. A bit of selective breeding and we'd have them in no time. |
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This would be great. I think it speaks to the "critter" in all of us. Dogs are so lucky to have expresive ears-- hands would really do the job. If I felt sad I could curl them up and pout for a a killer cuteness. |
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"Earrings" would just be "rings"... |
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Not much use to me - I'd have to use them to hold my specs on all day. |
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Although [lostdog] has a good glasses point, this idea rocks. It is hideous, of course, by which I mean thoroughly unattractive (not morally suspect), but really, really cool. So here is a croissant, which I give to you from one of my ear-hands. |
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On a more serious note - oh, crap, I've forgotten what I was going to say. Eh... Oh yeah! It wasn't serious. How long are the hands? Do they have wrists? Because if not, some of these things aren't achievable. They'd have to be fairly long to reach the mouth, even. |
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hey, mighty_c, bless you wherever you are. |
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Those chunks of flesh and
cartilage outside the earhole are
called the pinna, I beleive. |
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this would be awsome!! then we could get piercings on
our hands! |
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dbsousa: they wouldnt be called rings, theyd be
handrings. <3 |
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We would need larger earmuffs, and my motorcycle helmet would need some extensive modifications. On the other hand, covering your eyes during scary movies will be much easier. |
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I thought we canned WIBNI ideas.
Wouldn't it be neat if we had light sabers, lived as long as we wanted to and could fly also. |
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Yeah but hand-ears would be better. WIBNI's are okay if we all say they are. |
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Oh, and [canuck], the more clever, <or at least geeky> of us would be able to count to a little over a million (1048575), if we just used a little binary. |
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<rediculous engineering anecdote> I actually had to count something up the other day while out on the plant, it was a bit complicated, checking off dipswitch positions against the commisioning sheet, and old mate kept losing count, so I simply used binary on one hand to count the 27 dipswitches that were wrong. It took about 20 minutes and a whiteboard to explain to my offsider how I counted to over 5 using one hand. I'm still not sure if he gets it. </r.e.a> |
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It's quite a useful trick, and you can get rather good at it with a little practice. Interpreting the base-10 count takes a second, but is worthwhile, if only to bamboozle whoever was unlucky enough to witness your binary-counting wizzardry. |
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Oh god, I'm such a geek I'd beat myself up if I ever met me. |
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Downfalls-
Sneezing
Pleasuring ones self
would change sex entirely. |
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Link for //or plug your ears while using power tools// |
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You can cup your hands to hear better.
You can sit back and clasp your hands behind your head while still typing.
With your hands behind your head, you could wear bracelets that look like normal ears. |
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macncheesy: lightsabers? nah...but the flying part would
be neat! haha. |
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Did this idea come from hearing about
that guy who is growing an ear in his
forearm? I hear he is planning on another
one. |
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