Researchers at Osaka University have come up with a way to control your iPod with your teeth. By clenching your teeth for about a second (so you can still listen to music and chew gum at the same time for those of among you talented enough), you can manipulate your music. It’s not limited to a single action either.
In the laboratory, grinding right teeth can play and halt music on an iPod while clenching left teeth makes it skip to the next track, he said.
Can you hear that? Listen really carefully. That’s the sound of dentists and orthodontists across the land yelping with complete unbridled joy. Imagine all the damage you’ll be doing to your pearly whites are you desperately try to skip through every track of that Kevin Federline CD that suddenly appeared in your iTunes (it’s ok, we won’t tell anyone).
[via Engadget, photo via the AP]
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. What a waste of technology. Maybe instead of controlling a friggin' iPod maybe you can help people who are paralyzed from the neck down turn on a TV, or a friggin' light.
Well, I'm an orthodontist, and I think it's a GREAT idea! In fact, I'm going to start handing out complimentary John Tesh CD's to every new patient. I've got kids to put through college!