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11-07-2009, 07:36 AM
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DC Crew
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Member since: May 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
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2007 VY MN6 Coupe Z51 <sold>
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Smile, or you're going to get whacked
In the back of a head with a sharp needle! The link contains a video of this contraption:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...-you-dare.html
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A DESIGN student has created a high-tech hat that forces its wearer to SMILE.
The woolly headwear detects a user's facial expression and jabs a sharp metal SPIKE into their head if they stop grinning.
Inventor Lauren McCarthy describes her tongue-in-cheek Happiness Hat as "a wearable conditioning device".
She said: "A smile is a simple action that has the power to make you and everyone around you feel better.
"Just using the muscles to smile can make you feel happier. Seeing someone else smiling triggers mirror neurons in your own brain, causing you to smile yourself.
"Through repeated use of this conditioning device you can train your brain to smile all the time."
The battery-powered hat places a bend sensor against the wearer's cheek and measures smile size.
A tiny motor moves a metal spike into the back of the head when the happy expression starts to fade.
Miss McCarthy, who is studying at the University of California, says the Happiness Hat is "the first in a series of tools for improved social interacting".
A video of herself using the bizarre device has become a viral hit online.
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...#ixzz0WBWydCIG
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11-07-2009, 07:39 AM
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DC Crew
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I'd like to design a hat for my kids, so when I glare at them with the "don't even think about it" look, a hand pops out and slaps them in the back of the head.
Think that will sell? 
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Current:
2001 Corvette Convertible / Torch Red / 6-speed / Z51 / HUD (mine!)
2003 Corvette Convertible / Spiral Gray / 6-speed / Z51 / HUD (hers!)
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2002 Corvette Z06 race car / "The DC-Z" / Electron Blue (SOLD!)
1996 Corvette Grand Sport / Admiral Blue / 6-speed (SOLD!)
1996 Corvette LT4 / Black / 6-speed (DESTROYED!)
2007 Corvette Coupe / Le Mans Blue / 6-speed (SOLD!)
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11-07-2009, 08:15 AM
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Web Head
Posts: 14,518
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Member since: Oct 2005
Location: Avondale, AZ
My Corvette(s)
04 Z06 aka The Black Widow
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Patrick
I'd like to design a hat for my kids, so when I glare at them with the "don't even think about it" look, a hand pops out and slaps them in the back of the head.
Think that will sell? |
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My Black Widow
Most of my patients survive no matter what I do to them |
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11-07-2009, 09:47 AM
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DC Crew
Posts: 565
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Member since: Apr 2007
Location: Camdenton, Missouri
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2000 Coupe
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So, somebody designs a hat to make you smile by causing pain that would normally make you NOT smile? 
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"Panda, we do not wash our pits in the Pool of Sacred Tears." |
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11-07-2009, 09:53 AM
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Grey Squirrel
Posts: 17,288
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Location: Home, for now.
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None, it got repossessed
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"A sharp metal spike" 
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Don't go away mad just go away. |
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11-07-2009, 11:31 AM
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Posts: 11,210
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Member since: Jun 2007
Location: Folsom California USA
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69 stingray
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How the hell do you smile and drink a hot coffee...
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Some people are like a Slinky... not really good for anything, but you still can't help but to smile... when you shove them down the stairs |
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11-07-2009, 12:46 PM
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Posts: 2,529
Member #43506
Member since: Feb 2006
Location: West Chester, PA
My Corvette(s)
2005 Z51 Twin Turbo, 2008 Z51 (wifes), 2010 ZR1
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Patrick
I'd like to design a hat for my kids, so when I glare at them with the "don't even think about it" look, a hand pops out and slaps them in the back of the head.
Think that will sell? |
If you find them order me three
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