Mar 10 2009Control Your iPod With Facial Gestures

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.

Reader Comments
1. whe3e3e3 - March 10, 2009 5:31 PM
first!
2. liz - March 10, 2009 5:32 PM
the most bizarre tongue i have ever seen.
3. gizmoduck - March 10, 2009 5:38 PM
butt tongue; beyond the ass to mouth
4. Lindsay - March 10, 2009 5:45 PM
Hahahaha it completely lost it at 'ass-shaped tongue' oh man that's hilarious
5. Lindsay - March 10, 2009 5:49 PM
Hahahaha it completely lost it at 'ass-shaped tongue' oh man that's freaking hilarious
6. Lindsay - March 10, 2009 5:49 PM
(i used a 'bad word' oops)
7. Moose Knuckle - March 10, 2009 5:59 PM
If she can play the click wheel games with her tongue I would happily wed her.
8. naas - March 10, 2009 6:09 PM
I'm with all of you on the weirdass tongue, wtf
9. Milkman - March 10, 2009 6:09 PM
I thought she had a nut shaped tongue
10. Jamed - March 10, 2009 6:17 PM
I, for one, welcome our ass-shaped tongue overlords.
11. rawr - March 10, 2009 6:24 PM
i'd still tap that
12. JJtoob - March 10, 2009 6:25 PM
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?
13. British Dude - March 10, 2009 6:37 PM
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...
14. I'm a Computer - March 10, 2009 7:03 PM
I want to stick my tongue up her ass.
15. Stan Winstone - March 10, 2009 7:33 PM
I've got an iPod she can control with her tongue in my pants. Battery life kinda sucks though...
16. 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.
17. Adam - March 10, 2009 7:56 PM
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?
18. Boost - March 10, 2009 8:23 PM
Yea that's a weird looking tongue.
Mutant-like. o_O
19. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - March 10, 2009 8:28 PM
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.
20. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - March 10, 2009 8:29 PM
*know
21. Beastman AIDS - March 10, 2009 8:57 PM
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.
22. Chris Brown - March 10, 2009 9:02 PM
"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.
23. Boost - March 10, 2009 9:12 PM
@22
Agreed.
24. Tennist0 - March 10, 2009 9:32 PM
I wanna stick my tounge out and... um... idk... i really cant think of anything... >.> <.< um, aawesome to the power of sick beetches!
25. Daisy - March 10, 2009 9:43 PM
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.
26. J-red - March 10, 2009 10:05 PM
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)
27. injapan - March 10, 2009 10:10 PM
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.
28. Amanda - March 10, 2009 10:34 PM
WHAT the fudge is wrong with her tongue??
29. can - March 10, 2009 10:52 PM
@I'm a Computer
Yes me too :D
30. a - March 10, 2009 10:57 PM
she has a split tongue. it's a type of body art or some bullshit like that.
31. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - March 11, 2009 12:06 AM
@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...
32. eggs - March 11, 2009 12:56 AM
@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.
33. Boost - March 11, 2009 1:10 AM
@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
34. doug reed - March 11, 2009 1:36 AM
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.
35. m0nkey - March 11, 2009 2:26 AM
yeah, the technology is good, but application is impractical and stupid.
36. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - March 11, 2009 7:15 AM
I want to make mouth babies with her. We can call it bleah,
37. Clamdigger - March 11, 2009 8:16 AM
I can't wait till this catches on.. It will make my search for a personal ball washer so much quicker.
38. Amaranth - March 11, 2009 9:56 AM
@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.
39. Valerie - March 11, 2009 10:39 AM
@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.
40. asianchick - March 11, 2009 11:04 AM
i think the crease just goes sideways (like her vajay-jay)
41. Watch - March 11, 2009 1:02 PM
she doesnt look bad
42. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - March 11, 2009 2:04 PM
34 - Agreed.
eggs - I hate you more every time I read your posts.
43. mike - March 11, 2009 7:40 PM
Filthy mutie, we're better off without her sooperpowered toungue. My dad lost his tongue in the Nam and he never talked better!
44. meatierthanyurmother - March 11, 2009 10:35 PM
cameltongue!
45. eggs - March 12, 2009 6:52 AM
@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
46. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - March 12, 2009 11:01 AM
@45
Do you hate child molesters?
47. Matt Hankerson - March 12, 2009 4:17 PM
Sticking out your tongue in the wrong environment might get you shot.
48. eggs - March 13, 2009 3:15 AM
Not really, more of sympathy. Many of them were abused as children themselves.
49. Krystina - May 14, 2009 11:10 AM
To be honest; the first thing i realized was her tongue. Which seems to be split