Finger nose

Dominic Wilcox's "Finger Nose" is a touchscreen stylus that attaches to his head, designed to make use of modern smartphones easier while in the bathtub. FINGER-NOSE™ STYLUS FOR TOUCH SCREENS.

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Anonymous

First thing I thought of was the Edward Lear poem, “the dong with the luminous nose”

http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/dln.html
Felton / Moderator

Made in Bergerac.
jubblinger

I see this product having the same fate as the optigrab.
NoctilucentStudios

This is a joke.

Isin’t it?
Anonymous

In before NEXT LEVELS of design-concern-trolling >_>
GuyInMilwaukee

*NosePlant*
I, Lion

Would also be useful in those Canadian winters where you don’t want to remove yr mittens. I’ve often used my nose to advance through tracks, or answer a call on an iPhone.
mudpup

Silly thing.
I keep my phone in a zip-lock bag when working or playing in the rain. The touch screen on my iPhone works fine in all the bags I have tried. Don’t think I would use zip-lock for scuba diving or river rafting, but it’s light easy and cheap for biking and hiking.
SpudNYC

Why did the song Singin’ in the Rain run through my head when I watched this?
Scott

Ummm…

I think over all a Dry Pak would be safer for the phone and dignity.
Mike

Also the preferred accessory of plague doctors. COINCIDENCE?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_doctor
tylerkaraszewski

I give you… the noselonger!
- PaulR
  
  Damn you! Came here to say this.
  
  “Oh, what if…”
Michael Smith

Don’t need it. My nose is long enough.
jimkirk

When typing, he was a real “hunt & pecker”.
Chairboy

You know, you can pick that same thing up at any good adult store. It won’t look exactly like a nose…
- chgoliz
  
  The must-have accessory for sexting.
Rosscott

I actually wrote a comic pretty much about this idea. In winter, why by crazy gloves when you can use your nose?
http://www.notquitewrong.com/rosscottinc/2011/02/09/the-system-466-nope/
DeWynken

Ahhhh…wtf is he doing with his ‘free’ hand underwater?
- jimh
  
  Something something *pecker* something something.
Ingmar

Or, you know, semi-rugged / waterproof models might be the way to go. The Pinoccio model? Perfectly ridiculous.
Anonymous

When 22nd-century Boingers look back on _their_ previous-century, zeitgeist-reflecting vintage advertising curiosities, this will be near the top of the list.

Assuming it’s real.
sean

Either he spends too much time in the tub or too much time on the phone.
Felton / Moderator

Looks like anon beat me to the joke.
Anonymous

Looks more like a nose finger to me.
Anonymous

I don’t want to know what he is doing with his *other* hand, egads.
double_tilly

Further proof that Kubrick was ahead of his time.
emmdeeaych

Looks like an extra from Amadeus.
jimh

So, quite literally hunt and peck? Ugh. He also recommends using this when out and about multitasking. So, it guarantees celibacy too!
Anonymous

There is no Great Stagnation!
Chevan

Drying your hand with a towel or shirt placed on the floor near the bathtub would also work quite well. It would also have the the benefit of giving you two free hands to hold the device above the water.
Crashproof

This is not the first image that comes to mind when I read the words “finger nose.”
Stuart Ellis

I bet you that thing would make you more cross-eyed than a pair of Opti-Grab glasses…
Anonymous

I guess that its a modern day interpretation of Cyrano de Bergerac story…

Also – I would imagine that someone could make an interesting theater play / circus show out of something like this.
Anonymous

Forget the bathtub. There must be a porn application for this, too. Wait! I just figured it out…
Anonymous

With my eyesight, that nose’d have to be considerably longer to allow me to focus on the keyboard. And I’d feel really silly wearing that nose AND my glasses in the bathtub. But hey! feeling silly is what life is all about in the 21st Century.
Teller

The appropriate symbol for the mendacity of the bitternet.
materiaring

So that’s what things would be like if I’d invented the nose-longer. A man can dream, though. A man can dream.