Good lord. First it was glow-stick mouthguards. Then it was temporary tooth tattoos. Now, well now it’s a tiny LED that sits in your nostril and illuminates every time you breath.
Noda Akira created the device by combining a draft-sensor, a blue LED, and a power source. Once he got the device’s footprint small enough, he shoved it up his schnoz and showed it off at the Make Tokyo Meeting 07 earlier this month.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s an ingenious piece of engineering. I’d just walk around terrified of accidentally inhaling it. [Make Magazine via Boing Boing]
Hotcarp
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 10:18 PMJust don’t sneeze!
Seriously, as a nurse I could see how this sort of thing could be fantastic in the medical context. It can be surprisingly difficult to see if someone is breathing sometimes.
Josh
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 9:17 AMOh THAT’S what it’s for.
For the longest time I was thinking it was a piece of genius gone to waste!
But I now see that it’s much better than the old mirror-fogs-if-he’s-breathing technique.
Ron Van Wegen
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 12:48 PMThey used to drop candle-wax onto someone’s eyelids to see if they were dead!
Just This Guy ...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 2:44 PMAh, so that’s why Zombies have white eyes