You Can Tell He’s Lying By The Way His Cat Ears Twitch
Thursday, May 19, 2011
It’s late. You’re tired. Your girlfriend sits alone on the couch, her eyes red and puffy from crying most of the night. In a quiet voice, she says. “I don’t know what else to tell you. Steve and I, we’re just friends. The same goes for Teddy the office mail clerk and Harry from my car pool. And I don’t even that delivery guy from the Chinese food place’s name. Why would I cheat on you with someone whose name I don’t even know and never remembers to bring us extra hoisin sauce with our order?”
You want to believe her. Really, you do. She’s saying all the right things. Her body language is clearly letting you know that she’s telling you the truth. But it’s just not enough, is it? And now, before you make the hardest decision of your relationship, you find yourself wishing that your girlfriend had brainwave-sensitive cat ears on her head that might tip you off as to what she’s truly feeling.
Touted as a new “communication tool” that augments the human body’s ability to convey emotion, Neurowear’s Necomimi is a set of mechanical cat ears that respond to your brainwaves. Concentrate and they perk up. Relax and they fall. I think. Do both, which is apparently something professional sports players are really good at when they aren’t taking steroids or organizing dog fights, and they’ll twitch.
And that’s great and all, but I’m not sure twitching fake plushy cat ears are capable of telling me anything other than that the person wearing them is into Anime or Manga. Maybe that’s just me, though. I mean, just look at all the fun these folks are having.
I wonder how popular these will be when they’re released later this year. After all, it might be good for us to get in on the ground floor of the impending “animal ears as communication device” thing while we can. Woot-branded brainwave-sucking monkey ears, here we come.
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