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GPS
3:00AM Rosa Golijan | I used to be excited about iPhone turn-by-turn navigation, but the Pull-Navi system (straight from Tokyo University of Electro-Communications’ crazy folks) is way better. It comes with a stylish helmet and will yank on ears until they look like Dumbo’s. More »
Pull-Nuvi System Gives Directions And Dumbo-Like Ears
3:00AM Rosa Golijan | I used to be excited about iPhone turn-by-turn navigation, but the Pull-Navi system (straight from Tokyo University of Electro-Communications’ crazy folks) is way better. It comes with a stylish helmet and will yank on ears until they look like Dumbo’s. More » 
Gadgets
Ear Mirror: Bear Witness to The Waxy, Hairy Horror
11:10AM Sean Fallon | To be honest, I wouldn’t want an ear mirror for the same reason I wouldn’t want an arse mirror—some territory on the body should remain unexplored. More »
Gadgets
Ear Pressure Equaliser Sucks On Your Eardrum to Un-Pop It in Planes
8:20PM Kit Eaton | Now that’s a headline you won’t see often, and yet that’s exactly what this gizmo does. You pop it in your ear, and squeeze it to create negative pressure outside your eardrum, thus compensating for the sometimes painful inward-flex caused as the aircraft you’re flying in descends from altitude. Or you climb back down a mountain. There is a safety vent, so nothing should go bang (ouch!)… as befits a device developed by a professor from the Tinnitus Research and Balance Clinic in Melbourne Australia. Still, since it costs a surprising $US60, I’ll be sticking with my Eustachian tubes, thankyouverymuch. [OhGizmo] More »
Random Stuff
Spock Ears Make Me Say ‘Knit Long and Prosper’
8:40PM Gizmodo US Edition | This is a momentous day for me (I won’t spoil the surprise) and what better way to celebrate momentous days than by knitting a pair of Spock ears for my lugs. If I were going to the New York meet-up you would be able to identify me by these furry little thingies—sod the fact that I would probably collapse from heatstroke before I even got to the sodding ballgame—and I could be the fount of mirth while you watched the rounders match, or whatever it is they’re playing on the pitch. Anyway. Ears. Spock. Knitted. Look like sideways boobies. What more do you want on a Friday? [Yarn Songs via Boing Boing]
Gadgets
Gross Binaural Microphone is Clearly Missing a Face
10:10AM Gizmodo US Edition | Binaural sound recordings can be creepy enough, but knowing that they may have originated at this Otokinoko ear-mic might just make them unbearable. The concept of binaural microphones is elegantly simple: record sounds from the positions of human ears, creating the illusion of 3d sound at playback. This blue beast makes that concept very explicit, and like the binaural head mic before it, will rarely be able to record anything but people screaming “OH GOD WHAT IS THAT?” in glorious 3d. If that seems like something you might be interested in, the Otokinoko Binaural Mic is available now for US$3,899. More »
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