Examear: helping students make the best of exam day

Sure, quite a few intrepid students have tried to slip on an earpiece of some sort to gain an unfair advantage come test time, but those DIY attempts oftentimes lack the top-notch qualities found in professional, in-ear cheating liaisons. Enter Examear, which aims to "help students succeed" by offering up a trio of wireless earphones that enable test takers to hear recorded content on a nearby DAP or the voice of an abettor. Each of the models fit sneakily within your ear and sport varying levels of battery life / features, and while you can snag the low-ender for a mere $185, the Bluetooth-equipped platinum edition looks to be the best bet for the avid cheater at $300. 'Course, we certainly wouldn't recommend nor condone actually using these things for subverting an exam, but presenters who often forget their lines and those who long to be an undercover spy could certainly find a good bit of utility here, too.

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[g3n3tiX @ Aug 20th 2007 10:23AM]

Is is "camouflaged" in real ear wax ? (the color makes me think it is) ^^
Cheating is bad, m'kay ?

[martin @ Aug 20th 2007 10:23AM]

Site is down.

[sunny @ Aug 24th 2007 9:45AM]

Why is the site down any of ur friend has use this

[Jesse S @ Aug 20th 2007 10:23AM]

Site is dead.

[Alex Deva @ Aug 20th 2007 10:36AM]

It's not only dead, it's also made with FrontPage 5.

[John @ Aug 20th 2007 11:42AM]

I guess their web designers were using these babies during their web design courses then

[Leonard Nimrod @ Aug 20th 2007 10:37AM]

Google cache: http://72.14.235.104/search?q=cache:KCt1z-BHmK8J:www.examear.com/models.html+http://www.examear.com/&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&client=safari

[Electromodo @ Aug 20th 2007 11:05AM]

Some guys tried similar things in college, but they just didn't help. The most important thing in exam cheating is a quick search for the specific information, i.e. the formula, number, or a specific date. This is where good ol' paper works much better than audio narration.

At least in science, I am not sure about the arts.

BTW, one professor in our college allowed students to look at the textbook for 1 minute after they received their question cards. The reason was - if you forgot some constant, you had a chance to refresh your mind. The exam was about mathematics of liquid flow, stuffed with formulas and constants.

[Cpt.Scarecrow @ Aug 20th 2007 11:11AM]

That's why you have to sacrifice one person who doesn't take the test, but just goes into the exam room and leaves after a half an hour or so (you can't leave earlier in my exams) and then figures out the answers and tells them to the other cheaters through the earpieces. And then on the exam for people who failed the first you do it vice versa so that both of you ace the exam.

I have never cheated and in high school that worked out well because I got pretty good grades without to much studying, but now in college I wish I could cheat sometimes.
But still, it's always better to learn properly, then to cheat, because with cheating you will fail eventually when everybody figures out you don't know shit...

[HineyWipe @ Aug 20th 2007 1:00PM]

The effort you spend in cheating is wasted effort you could have spent on studying. "You cheat, you lie; you lie, you steal; you steal, you take a life."

[serab @ Dec 11th 2007 7:21AM]

Eshrae a request for information (qca)

[aeo @ Aug 20th 2007 11:30AM]

Eh this looks to me like a wooden dowel with a earphone transducer embedded into it. Worth $185?

Even if it does help do better on tests which is doubtful.

[gyffes @ Aug 20th 2007 11:31AM]

"... without to much studying..."


errr.. that'd be TOO much studying. So, perhaps a BIT more studying would've helped?

[fraggle_rocker @ Aug 20th 2007 11:45AM]

You cant take the exam paper with you if you leave early here, and a recorded list of items would annoy me more than anything.

This needs a pinhole spycamera to accompany it to be of any use. One with high enough quality for someone to be able to remotley read the paper.

To top it off, you and your friends need to practice writing the same thing differently so the papers wont all be obviously cheated.

I cheated before, in maths, because i didnt see the point of remembering formulas, I simply opened up a pack of chewing gums, Took each stick apart, wrote the cheats on the paper, put the chewing gum all back together, I also slipped the plastic wrapper off a coke bottle and wrote stuff on it, put it back on, and then drank half the bottle, i then read the cheats by pretending to drink, but just tilting the coke back far enough for me to read what was written.

Im glad i cheated, maths has been of no use to me.

[HyperHacker @ Sep 2nd 2007 6:59PM]

I wish I hadn't cheated in high school math. "I don't need to know this stuff, the calculator will do it for me!" Yeah, and then when it comes time to apply it in real life, you have no idea which functions on the calculator to use. >_<

Cheating just fucks you over in the long run.

[al @ Aug 20th 2007 12:35PM]

this is similar to what Bush used during the debates.

[Salmiakki @ Aug 20th 2007 4:39PM]

And the poor fellow forgot a hanger inside this jacket

[GETYOID @ Sep 3rd 2007 8:46PM]

They all use it you dufus.

[Dave @ Aug 20th 2007 1:43PM]

"So when I took the test, the answers were stuck in my brain. It was like a whole different kind of cheating!"

[Salmiakki @ Aug 20th 2007 4:45PM]

A handy extra device would be an electronic pen with a handwriting scanner. Once outside the exam room one could upload the handwriting images to a laptop and not worry about remembering the questions.

In my school you couldnt take any papers with you outside the exam room.

[Ian H. @ Aug 20th 2007 4:52PM]

As a teacher, it seems like the easiest way to defeat something like this is write an exam that requires *thinking*, rather than simple regurgitation.

[fubar @ Aug 20th 2007 6:20PM]

Actually, it's easier--and more fun--to create multiple forms of an exam. If there are enough questions, particularly multiple choice, start by reordering questions; reorder the answers on multiple choice and matching questions; change the content of the essays slightly; and so on.

There are few things more entertaining than reading an exam paper from somebody who copied correct answers from the wrong exam.

[DssTrainer @ Aug 20th 2007 7:55PM]

Am I missing the bigger picture here? Couldn't this be used for the Holy grail of wireless Bluetooth earbuds? I mean the Plantronics ones we've been waiting for 3 years now, and they haven't been making any progress on those for some reason, finally we have an inner-ear bluetooth earbud.. strap another on for stereo sound and lets go!

[victor @ Aug 20th 2007 8:08PM]

Who needs college when you can use one of these babies to do cold readings? Psychic, religious nuts, and plain-ol' grifters rejoice! Easy money, once their incredibly crappy website manages to stumble back to its feet...

[wrs @ Aug 20th 2007 9:26PM]

Hm -- so, the batteries of this baby are *safe*? Just won't explode accidentally inside your ear...?

Just curious. But might be kind of flashback here. ;-)

[Andrew @ Aug 21st 2007 6:07PM]

i've bought this stuff from ukrainian company PWR Trade. http://www.pwrtrade.com/
they don't have english interface, but you can write them on email - [e-mail] in english!
this stuff work's great!

[sunny @ Aug 24th 2007 9:45AM]

Hi there,does this stuff work and one thing how did u get it because the site is not functioning & like u have it can ur frisnd call u & u can haer clearly in the microphone from any range .Hope to hear u soon.

[Andrew @ Aug 28th 2007 4:17AM]

site is working pretty good! and there stuff is really great! helps me a lot! i've just sent them an email with request. after 2 days they gave me the cost+shipping cost. then i transfered money, and get my device in next few days via ups...