The Ear Vacuum Cleaner 3
We understand, besides being rather intimidating sticking a burning cone of hot wax in your ear canal, ear candles
are still a bit, how do you say, new agey? Thankfully one Japanese (who else?) retailer left no stone unturned
to leave no orifice uncleansed, and dug up with the very self-explanatory Ear Vacuum Cleaner 3. But we're not exactly
sure what we're more afraid of here, that there was an Ear Vacuum Cleaner 1 and 2, that it "delivers amazingly strong
suction"—we like our eardrums intact and functional, thanks—or that we'll have to inevitably clean this thing out.
Pass!
[Via MedGadget]
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Household
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
josh @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
this is a great alternative to the paper clips i usually use to dig deep into the waxy muck
Robert @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
Well, I guess it would work for your nose too?
Cliff @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
Ear wax candles are actually a scam. They don't really work. Just do a google search and you'll see.
Metus @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
Interestingly enough, Japanese (and Asian?) people tend to have drier collections of wax in their ears. Compared to a moister environment featured on western people. (Just as sweating is more explicit in caucasians than asian people...)
Thus, ear-cleaning goods designed in Japan (there are lots!) tend to cater for "dry-cleaning", rather treating the mess featured in the ears of the European and US market consumers.
Some localization might thus be needed for this product to succeed overseas.
lupinstel @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
Yes..Ear wax consistancy is actually a genetic trait (like attached or detached earlobes). People of Asian and African descent have a dry wax, while europeans have a moister wax. These are some of the important things you learn in college.
Roy @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
Yam, I can finally make my "soup de ear wax".
deadmonkey @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
if only it was USB powered
Grover Cleveland @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
Looks like a modified buttplug to me
OddManOut @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
These things have been around for a while. In '02 I got one as a gag-gift/souvenir for my mother. They were everywhere. In the shops, on tv, mall kiosks, drug stores...
They could even be found amongst Abtronics Ab-Muscle stimulators and Porno DVD's as prizes in drop-the-claw type games...
jd @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
great now you can suck out ur ear drum
Sam K @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
LMAO @ #6
The shape actually reminds me of Snoopy.
Whitey @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
I think it is the weather that makes ear wax dry, not the race.
RRF @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
Mr. Orek is kicking himself for this missed opportunity.
DAKH @ Dec 19th 2005 1:04AM
Carbamide peroxide and an Ototek loop (http://www.ototekloop.com/) work for me.