Bruce Wayne Says What?
Look out Mickey Mouse, “Batphones” are about to take over where your pathetic plastic ears only look cute and cuddly. Designed to enhance any sound coming from in front of you, these plastic prosthetic ears slip on as easy as a hair band, not that I ever wore a head band. Why didn’t I just say; as easy as a pair of headphones? Anyway, moving on. Designed by Matthias Ries, these ear extensions are not meant to replace traditional in-ear hearing aides, they were more designed for people with only slight difficulty hearing. Made from one piece of injection molded plastic, the Batphones are a cheap and quick solution when you need the volume turned up just a notch at movies, plays or hunting moths at midnight. Watch for Batphone earrings coming to an elderly tattoo parlor near you.
Designer: Matthias Ries
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hahaha oh man thats great. this is like the modern day equivelent of those olden day ear horns
These could actually be fun. If you cup both hands around your ears you get a similar effect (though your hands wouldn’t reflect high frequencies like these), and it’s surprisingly cool/effective.
um, i didn’t know that the Batphone sales reps were technically advanced enough to know how to comment on, much less find the Internet. But then again they don’t have both hands cupped around their ears anymore so they CAN type now. wow.
quite interesting!
It’s retarded…. we already have hearing aids!
This has a serious purpose. First of all, these would cost a tiny fraction of a hearing aid. Second, as Anthony says these would be for those cases of mild hearing loss where the hassle or cost of hearing aid wouldn’t be justified. Moreover, many people at first have difficulties in focusing their hearing to the source, or separating the signal from the background noise, if you will. These (or the traditional horn) would help in this, as you effectively not only focus on the sounds coming from ahead of you, but also block out any sounds coming from the behind. And leaving your hands free for reading, knitting, or playing Doom on your Emmerdale case-mod XBox 360 is a good thing, too.
To be a true batphone, this should come in black.
I think any money saved by not puying the traditional hearing aid would be more than made up for in prescriptions for zoloft, or wellbutrin, or visits to a psychologist to treat the depression that the wearer would undoubtedly suffer from wearing these in public and enduring never-ending mockery.
It looks very silly, what are they are for anyway?
Batman is more cool then that?