If you pump it up a bit more, you can check your blood pressure.

My neck, uh, has a 1.5" diameter

So what do you do with you loose vertebrae afterwards? Does it come with a pouch to store them or something?

@liveinvt: So you are the quintessential pencil neck geek then?

Is it just me or does this look like some modern high-tech suicide machine? Just strap it on your neck, start pumping, and pretty soon you won't be able to breath any more!

Does it have a name? I vote for Giraffe-O-Matic 3000!

This looks wrong. :S

Finally, a high tech replacement for Karen brass neck rings

class action lawsuit in 3...2..1.

This will make for an excelent homicide/suicide device!

I'll just go to my massage therapist instead.

@GOKOR: ...I go for the happy ended, but the massage is great too.

Clint Eastwood could have used this in "Hang 'Em High"!

"somewhere short of popping your head off like an unfortunate Legoman" made my morning, thanks Kit :)

@alystair: Pleased to be of service :)

Can we get a shot of this in action?

>PoP!<

looks like a (wrongful death) lawsuit waiting to happen. Ugh..i'd try it but...scary.

@Kiteaton: for $69.97, i have a choke hold that can work even better! i got it from the UFC death match! LOL

"That'll be somewhere short of popping your head off like an unfortunate Legoman"

Just one more squeeze can't hurt...

Yes! Finally a gadget for my guilty pleasure...autoerotic asphyxiation... that towel from the closet rod thing was getting a little old...and it chaffed like you would not believe!

@OG512: UFC death match, huh? Where did this happen, because UFC doesn't have anything resembling death matches.

ROFL looks like an inflatable toilet seat

Have you ever tried putting a BP cuff on a cat and pumping it up = same difference.

I wouldn't mind tying one. If they give them away for free. I have 4 bad neck vertibrae.

@Seiven: My first thought too.

@OneEyedJack: All it's gonna take is one person to die from that, one messy crime scene, and this device is doomed.

@Seiven: All it's gonna take is one person to die from that, one messy crime scene, and this device is doomed. =P

Sorry, couldn't resist.

The patent notes that it was originally designed as relief for Proboscidea (elephant) erectile dysfunction and pleasure.

@Seiven: Hah! Exactly! Or an inflatable self-pleasing device!

Two words: Kevorkian Scarf.

@Shutaro: Damn, beaten to it. :-p

My father has a thing from the 50's that is basically a bag of water on a rope, a couple of pullies that hang on the top of a door, and a head strap. This is a version of the same thing. He was in a car accident as a kid and his neck is still messed up from that, so to get relief he has to sit facing a door for an hour or so sometimes. This looks like it'd be lots more comfortable, and you could watch TV while doing it.

All jokes aside I actually use a variation of the pneumatic device and it work wonderfully on my screwed up neck. I have the over the door variety that uses a water filled ballon but that is a real pain in the ass. I get them on ebay for around $8-$15 each. They are all made in China so I buy 4 at a time because they sometimes develop leaks. For neck pain there is nothing like them.

I have one of these and it really helps with sore necks. Each time you squeeze the bulb to inflate it there is only a small amount of additional upward pressure and I have even had it inflate all the way and it was only just approaching the point of being unconformable. The one I have looks exactly like this and I can tell you peoples heads will not be popping off.

You can get them on Ebay for less that $10..

You can also get a loved one to give you something that was invented thousands of years ago, it's called a backrub or sometimes referred to as a neck massage.

I mention this out of vendetta because it's not technical news and makes you look like the Michelin man. Try a Tempurpedic pillow instead of something like this.