Nov 27 2010I See You!: Through The Looking Glass Knob

I typically try to avoid peepin' at knobs but I have been known to glance over a urinal divider if I hear an unusually powerful stream. Curiosity aside, this is a doorknob that allows you to see what's on the other side. Which, SPOILER!: your brother masturbating.
Hideyuki Nakayama's "A Room in the Glass Globe," developed in conjunction with door handle manufacturer LEVER, shows you a reflection of what's going on in the room behind it, cast in a sort of strange, dreamlike haze.
I dig it. And all you have to do for privacy is put a sock over your end. Unless you're an exhibitionist, in which case you should probably take all your doors off the hinges and sell them back to Home Depot anyway. Except for the bathroom. I don't care how big a pervert you are, no bathroom should ever go doorless. That's disgusting.
One more picture after the jump.

This Door Knob Lets You See What's in the Room Behind It [gizmodo]
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Reader Comments
1. JoshJ - November 27, 2010 1:02 PM
First!
2. I AM THE WARRIOR KING! - November 27, 2010 1:07 PM
I need one of these on my refrigerator.
3. John Connor - November 27, 2010 1:14 PM
I need one of these in my guest room when my sister friends come over.
4. WickedKitty - November 27, 2010 1:25 PM
I need one of these... I don't need one of these.
5. KING KOOPA - November 27, 2010 1:46 PM
1 post in the last 3 days wow i think thats a record
6. Luna Mystica - November 27, 2010 2:16 PM
I need not to need one of those.
7. Chuck Nunchuck - November 27, 2010 2:36 PM
You should never throw glass knobs if you live in a brick house.
8. meep - November 27, 2010 2:39 PM
@3 that isnt sketchy at all....hahaha
9. Five - November 27, 2010 2:43 PM
I'd feel like a witch whenever I opened the door.
10. DonnieBrasco - November 27, 2010 3:03 PM
"Hideyuki Nakayama's "A Room in the Glass Globe," developed in conjunction with door handle manufacturer LEVER,"
--- That's not correct
"In conjunction with Design Tide Tokyo, architect Hideyuki Nakayama – a protégé of Toyo Ito – has teamed up with UNION, a manufacturer of door handles and levers, to create a glass globe doorknob."
Is the truth,
Somebody didn't follow the click through to the source... [ http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2010/11/09/a-room-in-the-glass-globe-by-hideyuki-nakayama/ ]
11. Cakeflourz - November 27, 2010 3:15 PM
@5 I take it your not from the US and don't realize that many people get Thanksgiving Day (this past Thursday) And Friday off from work, therefore making it a four day weekend.
12. Butt er pecans - November 27, 2010 3:53 PM
@all FUCKING PERVERTED MOTHER FUCKERS! (p.s. i cant b talkn) ._.
13. cid - November 27, 2010 4:49 PM
@3: post pics.
14. Hellhound - November 27, 2010 4:58 PM
@3 Yeah do what 13 said post pics i need new images. LOL
15. Jorchet - November 27, 2010 7:24 PM
It's almost like Kramer's reverse peephole! lol
16. james - November 27, 2010 11:25 PM
AT first I thought it was funny and perverted, and i was like, so people can watch me masturbate and scratch my ass with a Hair comb all day long, While randomly scratching my ass with my finger and then bicuriously digging inside and feeling all around, then smelling my finger and realizing it smells like bleach, then scratching again,
But this is actually terrifying What if you see a robber, or a ghost, a monster,
some fucked up shit, This is great for a horror movie plot
17. Hellhound - November 27, 2010 11:38 PM
@20 With all my Grotesque comments I must say u r very disturbed.
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if only it recorded....
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Who everybody is jumping the gun. Most of everybody masturbates and screws at night times. So with the see through effect hav it were it has a night vision adaption 2 so u can c n the dark.
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