Oct 27 2008Music Face: Wait, Why'd You Do That Again?
Daito Manabe is probably a masochist. And definitely a weirdo. What does he do?
He tapes electric stimulators, looking like the same type used for electroshock therapy, to his face, and syncs them with his music so his involuntary facial contortions match up with the tune.
Now that's what I call dancing! Or, alternatively, now that's what I call freaking stupid!
Innovations in Visualizer Technology: Electroshock Your Face [gizmodo]
Thanks to Adam, who, for threatening to quit, is fired.
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Reader Comments
1. Daisy - October 27, 2008 4:52 PM
Fake!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its fake because the shadows are all wrong.
It looks a little like the electric shock scene from NEver Back Down II - Electric Boogaloo
2. shootdaisy - October 27, 2008 4:53 PM
i dont give a damn. she didnt say it. im stealing it from daisy. FIRST!
3. Serenil - October 27, 2008 4:55 PM
wierd as hell
4. Ash - October 27, 2008 4:59 PM
Looks like the guy is having seizures, Quick kick him while he can't fight back, I mean call 911
5. BOOSH - October 27, 2008 5:06 PM
i'd like to stand on that thing
6. guate6 - October 27, 2008 5:20 PM
Pretty neat actually...I'd never do it, but it's neat to watch.
7. Elmo - October 27, 2008 5:21 PM
what in hell.... wouldn't that hurt?!
8. Nava - October 27, 2008 5:33 PM
That guy listens to really bad twinkly music.
9. Sly Hoax - October 27, 2008 5:40 PM
Awesome, now hook it up to your wang!
10. Ace - October 27, 2008 5:40 PM
OK. The music sucks and the guy's a weirdo, but this is actually pretty damn funny. Gotta give him that.
11. mamadough - October 27, 2008 5:42 PM
i wonder what kinda faces he would make if those wires were taped onto his ballsack?
12. OctoGooch - October 27, 2008 5:50 PM
good lord. more. more!
13. OctoGooch - October 27, 2008 5:51 PM
MOAR!
14. Mikko - October 27, 2008 5:51 PM
this would probably make a good music video for some electro trance song
15. ahha - October 27, 2008 6:11 PM
@ 9
Is that a racist comment?
16. Geekologie Writer's Mom - October 27, 2008 6:37 PM
That's exactly what the Superficial Writer looks like when I'm sucking his dick. What song is that again? Geez that's an amazing coincidence.
17. ra1n - October 27, 2008 8:26 PM
if i done that( and i probably would if i could) i'll be laughing the whole time and can't keep a strait face
18. Hunter - October 27, 2008 9:16 PM
Pretty awesome right there.
19. Mr.Anderson - October 28, 2008 12:37 AM
Holy Crap!!
This is INGENIOUS!! It's inventive people like this guy that will take technology to new platforms.
If people just sort of looked at how technology has been developed in the past it's not quite a streamlined process. You need visionaries and eccentrics to bring out the real usefulness in stuff.
Shoes that can make you run faster, a suit that lets you dance like a pro to the beat, are only some things I could think of doing with this :P
20. The_Don - October 28, 2008 2:34 AM
@19
You'd be delighted to know that such technology is already at work. People who've lost their control over their bladder or anal sphincter get this kind of thing implanted to...... you know, tighten them up a bit
Visionaries my foot. When the shit hits the fan, you gotta do something about it.
21. irae - October 28, 2008 2:53 AM
@20
LMFAO!
Do you know, by occasion, how many ours such a life saver could keep the poor man's things closed!
*blip,blip,blip* - "excuse-me, I got'a change batteries.... ow crap! too late..."
LOL!!
22. matt - October 28, 2008 3:42 AM
I want to see this done with a really fast aphex twin song. That would be awesome.
23. jean - October 28, 2008 5:30 AM
HEY, that's not original...that guy stealed it from me...years ago i tied electrodes to my ass to modulate....well...you know....
24. Adra - October 28, 2008 6:30 AM
"And so it was that everyone that reads Geekologies gained the knowledge on how to look cooler on the dance floor. And it was good."
Gx
25. Thumperchica - October 28, 2008 8:02 AM
@4 - we think alike...
@20 - is that why some days you're relaxed, and others you act like an electrically charged puckered sphincter?
For the kid in the post, if he could've photoshopped out the wires this would've been way funnier...
26. Sly Hoax - October 28, 2008 2:52 PM
@15 - it wasn't intended to be a racial comment.. I always call my junk a "wang"... but I ROFLED when I read your comment.
27. DESTROY - October 28, 2008 5:50 PM
Am I the only one that wants to put Megadeth in his iTunes and watch his head catch fire?
28. Dr. Lauren - October 28, 2008 6:30 PM
this is fake.
if you have nay concept of the musculature of the face, and trigger points, you can see that the taping of the electrodes are all worng... they wouldn't elicit those contractions..
29. HG - October 28, 2008 9:03 PM
...Hey, Dr. Lauren.
Shut up.
Nobody cares if it's fake or not, and though I highly doubt you have any f***ing clue what you're talking about, stop trying to ruin our fun.
30. RGB9000 - October 29, 2008 2:08 AM
Seems fake to me... you could just twitch your face muscles on your own accord and play some music.