Mar 10 2009Control Your iPod With Facial Gestures

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That's right, thanks to Kazuhiro Taniguchi of Osaka University, soon stopping the music on your iPod will be as simple as sticking out your ass-shaped tongue.

The Ear Switch looks like a normal set of headphones, according to an Agence France Press report, but includes a set of sensors that allows its on-board computer to measure tiny ear-canal movements.


The result, Taniguchi claimed, is that "an iPod can start or stop music when the wearer sticks his or her tongue out".

He added that the user can also skip to the next track by widely opening their eyes or skip back by winking. Other facial expressions could also be programmed to control other features.

Well that's a relief. I mean seriously, my fingers get tired of pushing all those little buttons anyways. I can see the bus now: wait, did you just wink at me? I said, STOP THE WINKING! That's it buddy, fisticuffs -- you asked for them!

Boffin unveils facial expression-controlled iPod [reghardware]

Thanks to Rick and krabivana, who control their iPods the way God intended: with child laborers.

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first!

the most bizarre tongue i have ever seen.

butt tongue; beyond the ass to mouth

Hahahaha it completely lost it at 'ass-shaped tongue' oh man that's hilarious

Hahahaha it completely lost it at 'ass-shaped tongue' oh man that's freaking hilarious

(i used a 'bad word' oops)

If she can play the click wheel games with her tongue I would happily wed her.

I'm with all of you on the weirdass tongue, wtf

I thought she had a nut shaped tongue

I, for one, welcome our ass-shaped tongue overlords.

i'd still tap that

So what when I want to blink but don't want my ipod to skip? Or if I want to stick my tongue out to someone but don't want to stop my music?

Dude: So does it mean I can f*ck her tongue since its shaped like an ass?

Hey stupid! Even though a tomato is shaped like an ass, it doesn't mean you can f^ck it faggo. So instead of bitchin' about not having to bang a chick with an ass for a tongue, just listen to my rap that I've written today:

Bitches and midgets can suck my dick
But fags and turdfaces can have my kick
Linsten to what I say before I smash your face
An ass-shaped tongue is awesome like a club of ace

'Sup bitch can I tap that ass?
Shut up and bend over before you eat some grass
Ooh that pussy just stank like a dead fish during a drought
Did that girl with an asstongue just crapped on your mouth?

Yeyer Yeyer Yeyer
Pussy on the air
She got an ass for a tongue
That bitch makin' me scared!
Break it motherf*cking down.

Peace...

I want to stick my tongue up her ass.

I've got an iPod she can control with her tongue in my pants. Battery life kinda sucks though...

Just picture the guy jogging at the park sticking his tongue out and moving it around just to change a song. that might get him a slap from a girl like me.

What happens when this chick gives a BJ?

First will the tongue enhance or detract on my experience, and will she just fast forward through every song as she tries to wrap her lips around my dong?

Yea that's a weird looking tongue.


Mutant-like. o_O

Just when you thought the i-p.o.s. couldn't get any gayer... I want to knw what happens when you accidentally get a piece of dust in your eye while you're running, does it start backing through the entire catalog? Or what if you sneeze?

There's no way this will see the light of day, but if it does, if I see someone in public controlling their ipug this way, I'll bitch-slap them.

*know

haha - before i read the article i was staring at her tongue trying to decide if it looked like a knob or an ass. I'll go with ass since that's the majority vote.

"Melissa - March 10, 2009 7:54 PM
Just picture the guy jogging at the park sticking his tongue out and moving it around just to change a song. that might get him a slap from a girl like me."

If you're the kind of chick who commits acts of battery on people whose facial expressions you don't like, then you might get punched in the face by a guy like me.

Seriously, expect to be seriously injured if you decide to slap a stranger no matter what the reason. Also, expect to go to jail. Equality is a bitch.

@22

Agreed.

I wanna stick my tounge out and... um... idk... i really cant think of anything... >.> <.< um, aawesome to the power of sick beetches!

FAKE!!!!

This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.

This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max fell through the ice into the river and was instantly transported to the town library.

First the face controls the iPod, next thing you know the iPod will control the face!
What if there's more iPods up at that lab? Holy shit! Maybe it's a conspiracy like in the X Files, Roswell style! This little iPod could be the f*cking damn dirty iPod responsible for the fall of the human race... In this world gone mad, we won't play the iPod, the iPod will play us. And after the fall of man these iPods f*cks will start wearing our clothes and rebuilding the world in THEIR image! Oh when only those as smart as me will be left alive to bitterly cry, "You maniacs! Damn yous! God damn yous all to hell! Shit not on my watch motherf*cker. Die you iPod f*ck-baaahhhh *trips and falls on face*


Yes, that is from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. (Mostly)

i think im the only one that sees this as slightly useful. snowboarding with an ipod and trying to use the controls with gloved hands is somewhat impossible. and since i already look like a douche snowboarding with headphones, i dont think sticking my tongue out will make it that much worse.

WHAT the fudge is wrong with her tongue??

@I'm a Computer

Yes me too :D

she has a split tongue. it's a type of body art or some bullshit like that.

@27: Good luck with that, you'd be boarding, sticking out your tongue trying to listen to your Nickelback or High School Musical soundtrack, fall and bite that shit off...great idea, go for it...

@22 and 23. The words sexual harassment ring a bell? Doesn't matter if that wasn't his intention. And hitting someone physically weaker just doesn't make you very much of gentleman.

@30

That was my first thought too.


But like, an ass? Who would modify their tongue to look like an ass?


I've heard of getting a snake tongue, but an ass tongue?

Ita maka nosensay

can you imagine if everyone that has an ipod began sticking their tongues out and blinking rapidly? yeah.. it basically turns you into an epileptic. Grats random asian woman for trying to make everybody look like complete jackasses.

yeah, the technology is good, but application is impractical and stupid.

I want to make mouth babies with her. We can call it bleah,

I can't wait till this catches on.. It will make my search for a personal ball washer so much quicker.

@13 That is the most hilarious post I have seen in a while hahahaha

for the freaks on this post, this isn't about the "ass shaped tongue" its about the new ear phones.

@30 & 33: I don't think that's an intentionally split tongue. Sometimes when you have your tongue pierced, if you screw around with it too much, the piercing can "creep" to the tip of your tongue and fall out, leaving that kind of a scar. But man... if that's the case, she really had that thing pierced close to the tip of her tongue. Something you see alot in lesbian women. So, you know.... there's that. She may enjoy a good munch on the ol' fur burger.

Or she may just have a jacked tongue.

i think the crease just goes sideways (like her vajay-jay)

she doesnt look bad

34 - Agreed.

eggs - I hate you more every time I read your posts.

Filthy mutie, we're better off without her sooperpowered toungue. My dad lost his tongue in the Nam and he never talked better!

cameltongue!

@42 "If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us." Herman Hesse

@45
Do you hate child molesters?

Sticking out your tongue in the wrong environment might get you shot.

Not really, more of sympathy. Many of them were abused as children themselves.

To be honest; the first thing i realized was her tongue. Which seems to be split

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