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A couple of years ago we introduced you to the privacy scarf, which was based on the same principle as this body-laptop wooly jumper, but lacked its homemade, knitted style. The idea is intended to provide "privacy, warmth, and concentration in public spaces," but in the end it just makes you look like an epic douche. And if you think this thing is useless, get a load of the keyboard jumper/glove after the break.
Thankfully, these designs are only concepts at this point. [Flickr and Sternlab via Mr. Gadget via Gearfuse]
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The top picture reminds me of a tip for anyone with cats:
Put a tube sock over your cat's head when trying to clip its claws. It freaks out the cat a little bit, but mainly just disorients the bejeesus out of the cat, allowing you to cut its claws.
Considering what groomers charge, it's just as easy to do it at home.
Cut a hole in the bottom and you have the "Jackin' Scarf," so no one can see you watching your pr0n and pleasing yourself.
Why does OMG! Ponies! not have a star yet. It's helpful advice like that that keeps me going during the day...
The top picture reminds me of something you would see in a Dr. Seuss book...I do not want you to see me, nor what I see on the laptop on me
This isn't anything to do with warmth or concentration. The Body-Laptop lets you smoke a huge bong in the middle of Starbucks.
More like the Wooly Fapper...
@OMG! Ponies!: Sweet fancy Jesus. You just saved me and my girlfriend oodles of mauling.
@OMG! Ponies!: Bah. I just clip a claw here and there... day by day... until I get them all. The sock would only make my cat (more) furious.
While the product is lame the model is quite perky. I give it a thumbs up! :)
@OMG! Ponies!: I wonder if that will work with macaws
@jsnorcal:
The Once-ler: This thing is most useful! This thing is a "thneed." A theed, a fine something-that-all-people-need! It's a shirt. It's a sock. It's a glove! It's a hat! But it has other uses, yes, far beyond that. You can use it for carpets, for pillows, for sheets, for curtains! Or covers for bicycle seats!
The Lorax: Sir, you're crazy. You're crazy with greed. There's no one on earth who will buy that fool thneed!
The Once-ler: The birth of an industry, you poor, stupid guy! You telling me what the public will buy?
priceless...
It needs extra padding in the head area, for all the bitch slap abuse this thing would attract. It's like a hypoallergenic hate magnet.
@Scott: I second that!
@Papsky: Damn your right...good reference.
The words "porn" and "tube sock" can't fit this image enough.
This mixes my three favorite things: computers, knitting, and bondage. I'll take 6.
Yes folks, I've escaped from Newark.
@Kaiser-Machead: I'm telling you - it works. Plus, if there's a power outage, you can put tube socks on your cat's head and watch it walk backwards. Two cats equals twice the fun. There's your entertainment value right there.
Basically, the cat thinks its head is stuck in a hole and so tries to back out of said hole by walking backwards. That's upper limit of logic in an animal whose brain is the size of a pecan - right up there with the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.
Then again, I try to perform mathematical calculations using 2 pounds of meat. As you can see, I'm the kind of guy who gets bored, puts tube socks on his cats' heads, and then pawns it off on a gadget blog as some kind of hippy-dippy, East Coast hint from Heloise.
So who am I to judge the limited logical deductive powers of my two dimwitted cats?
*actually, as the guy who buys their food and changes their litterbox, I'm just the guy to judge - they're idiots
Haha, I have one of those, but I call it a "blanket"
@weatherman:
Star light, star bright,
first star I see tonight.
I wish I may, I wish I might
see a star on OMG! Ponies! right.
@tamoko: yea you can watch the video on some video sharing sites... i used to watch dr. seuss all the time and once i saw this thing i laughed and had to find a good quote
All these posts and no one's pointed out how hawt the girl is...
what is the point of the keyboard version? "haha, you can't see what i'm typing! stop looking at the monitor! i'd cover your eyes if they weren't stuck to my keyboard."
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha(snort)hahahahahahahahaha
hahahaha(coughcough)hahahahahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahahaha(gasp)hahahahaha
hahahaha.....phew! I think I peed a little.....
@Papsky:
@Papsky: OMG, you deserve something amazing for that.
This thing is, indeed, a most wondrous thneed,
a device to whack off in, which all people need.
Whack off in the subway, whack off at your job.
With this thneed, there's no place you can't polish your knob!
I'm one of those pathetic people who has to look at the keyboard while typing. the bottom "thing" would do me no good.
Christ, I'm STILL laughing at the top "thing".
@Papsky:
Lorax= Comedy Gold!
@92BuickLeSabre: @Kaiser-Machead: You guys do know that the powers that be have conveniently listed their email addys and AIM handles in the sidebar.
I mention this because I don't think it's proper decorum for me to go ask for one on my own behalf, even if I was in the Top Five Commenters of 2007 (*ahem)
do they sell one made of asbestos in case the lithium battery goes up in flames?
@m4ximusprim3: i deserve nothing... Dr. Seuss is the man lol.
i just sat up all night watching these old toons a few months ago. I wish cartoons where still like this.
Bwahahahah, lappy is going to blow up.
@92BuickLeSabre:
agreed.
GIZ GIVE PONIES A FRIGGIN STAR ALREADY.
@Lupison:
...Faceless chicks don't extactly do it for me.
@EBone: How are you going to watch porn with your prick in the way? Or... eh, never mind.
It just reminds me too much of The Blob. These people look like they are being consumed by T.J. Maxx sweaters.
My other concern is always for the potential for thieves or other such nefarious characters to come up and pilfer the belongings of the idiots have their head and hands stuck in these things.
I consider myself a very moral person, but if saw some twit with one of these over their heads, I would at minimum move all their stuff to the other side of the room.
@nutbastard: Hey, where's the Poet love? I knew I should have bought you that beer... I need a good cheerleader in my corner.
I guess this is pretty much the opposite of the Slanket.
[www.theslanket.com]
@zenpoet:
you bandwagon has yet to arrive, so i cannot at this juncture jump on it.
@Optimus-Prime:
ha, it would be awesome to use both simultaneously in public.
Sorry I've been a long time Giz reader, but only lurk in the comments. What does one of those fancy stars get you?
@nutbastard:
I would like to reiterate nutbastard's reiteration. OMG!Ponies! exited the molecular cloud stage long ago and is squarely on the Hayashi track.
Just get a laptop with a VERY acute viewing angle if you want privacy.
@adamgamble: 72 virgins in the afterlife...
no... j/k.. i dont think it gets you anything, but lets others know you are a "star" commenter.
I see typing teachers ordering the second ones things by the truckload.
@Papsky: Sweet so its like being a radical muslim, only without the blowing yourself up.
@Optimus-Prime: That is a pretty cool idea. My girlfriend just pooped her pants over the slanket.
@adamgamble:
yeah, i wonder if they give out moons...
@adamgamble: The admiration of those who patronize tech blogs.
man...that first picture reminds me of a Boss in Silent Hill
I seriously don't get it. Sometimes, I have to hide the light from my laptop when I type in the dark (yes, late at night in bed) and I've found that you can easily suffocate with such a thing. "Warmth" is an understatement.
@Papsky: Good call, definitely a Thneed.
That first picture is so inviting, I would hit that person in the head so hard and they'd never see it coming. Either that or steal their backpack.
Oh yeah, great idea guys. You want a little privacy on the Tokyo subway, so you put the top one on and start typing. Next thing you know, you're getting groped and you have no idea who did it...
Wait a second, maybe you are onto something after all.
@JacquesAss: Don't forget the teabagging!
It's missing a hole in between the hands sleeves on the laptop version for male users....;)
OMG! Ponies! got his star! [www.bubblesandbowsonline.com]
I only advocated for it so I could tease him. ;)
Congrats OMG!, welcome to the ... well, congrats.
@Papsky: Why would anyone want 72 virgins?
I'd rather have 72 sluts who know what to do and have no inhibitions.
Holy crap, it looks like a cross between Snufflupagus and the face-hugger from Alien.
Make sure to keep one in your laptop bag at all times, and try scoring chicks with it. If one really is cool enough to do this, record the audience while you sit at an air port with your tube sock. I'd love to see what people and security have to say about this.
LOL OMG
Well it appears she's trying to smell herself. Well at least this is what the .... the device makes it look it.
i would wear some really stupid things......
..........this is not one of them
OMFG, that has to be one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. And I've grown up on the U.S.-Mexico border...
I think I peed a little again, damnit...