The Body-laptop interface is knitted from Thneed which nobody, Nobody, NOBODY needs
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Apr 16th 2008 3:46AM
posted Apr 16th 2008 3:46AM
Uh, er, that's the Body-laptop Interface. The idea is to provide the user "privacy, warmth, and concentration" when using a laptop in public spaces. It's just a concept for now... at least until Thanko or SolidAlliance sees it.
[Via Mr. Gadget]
Way to go on the over heating
Not only is your laptop everheating, but some cheeky bugger has ran off with all your stuff...
My Eyeballs feel itchy just looking at that thing.
The BBC has slashed the Dr Who budget this season...
If I see someone wearing that at Starbucks I'm going to put salt in their coffee.
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
Yeah, definitely not conducive to good cooling.
Or you could just put on a blanket if you're cold?
HaHa i would so use that !!
I want one
I don't.
April fool's day was like two weeks ago.
Add a hole where the laptop should be and it can be used for kinky times.
a glory hole?
@Wasabi,
FTW!!! HA HA HA!
...was thinking that the 'covering' may need to go a bit further up the torso, for real private-time-use-laptopping.
just want to say, there ‘might' not be a laptop in there....:P
With some porn on the screen...
WTF?
*looks confused*
FOR GOD'S SAKE PUT THE CAMERA DOWN IT'S EATING HER
Oh jesus dude thank you for making me laugh. I needed it :) Best comment I've read in awhile...
HAHAHAHAA!!!!!
LOL! classic..
lololololololol, your comment was the only one that actually made me laugh.
that was great.
Haha... this made my day! =D
Awesome! Dunno if it's "better" than the usb-vibrator ... or the usb-foot-heater. >_>
hahahahahaahhahahaha .....inhale....exhale........ hahahahahahahahah
What's that smell. Its just the hundreds to possibly thousands of chemicals you are inhaling from the exhaust of your laptop directly.
Nice way to clear up the sinuses, get cancer, and possibly die quicker.
What are the chances of that happening though?
LOL.
Thousands of chemicals in laptop exhaust? I find that to be highly unlikely. It is just air running over metal.
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) buildups, however, are very likely to kill you especially if you are using it for a long time.
also, if you haven't showered recently, this could pose a very real health risk
JAmerican's laptop runs on a mixture of gasoline and cigarettes.
The INTERNETS! Seriously private business!
welcome to 2005!
That is just weird.
Needs one more hole so I can rub one out at the same time.
OMG you ain't right!! :D
ROFL. Beat me to it..
Yeah, he sure did "beat" you to it.
8 months till christmas - better get knitting to make one for someone you love!
or hate
Makes it quite a bit easier for pick pockets and thieves to go through your belongings.
i can't describe how much i love the lorax in the corner.
I was wondering when someone was gonna make that allusion. First thing I thought of two.
Somehow I think I'd enjoy seeing these in Starbucks.
HELP! Its trying to eat me!!!!!
16 days late, boys.
lol-human subtitle:
NOM
...this is an interesting idea, but I think the person should just buy one of those LCD light angle restriction clip-on thingies...
I also commend engadget on admitting to posting about something which 'nobody, Nobody, NOBODY needs'
....*cough*
..Although there is a difference between need and want, I suppose.
This is like the Jayne hat of computer geekery. The colour scheme's even similar.
Bonus points for a Firefly reference!
I also congratulate you on a successful Firefly reference. I bought a Jayne hat for a friend of mine at Christmastime. It came in a box with hay in it and a reproduction of the letter Ma Cobb sent Jayne. It was the coolest thing ever.
Apart from being a stupid idea, and looking ridiculous, being umcomfortable, and getting robbed, getting beat up, getting laughed at, looking like you can't dress yourself, having a woolly device around your head and your computer and looking like you are masterbating... I'm not sure that this would actually work, I'm not sure that the viewing angle is sufficient to see the whole screen and the keyboard
It seems like u struck upon a great new use and target consumer base for this product. Sexual deviants who want to jack off on the flight, from the comfort of their own seat.
the burning batteries are enough。
That is the dumbest idea ever! If you have a MacBook or MacBook Pro, it will be like a sauna in there!
It looks like a character from Silent Hill!!
Am I allowed to use it in the office?
I can't say much about what's actually being talked about, but...
But...
Grickle grass, grickle grass, Street of the Lifted Lorax....
This could make a good horror movie...
Secured than a Blackberry, btw isn't that Veronica Belmont?
That's what I was thinking.
Sometimes, I think a lot of the craft stuff gets done as a joke to see if anyone is simultaneously sufficiently geeky and sufficiently stupid to carry out the project. Because that's the only rational explanation I can come up with.
Nice tits.
beat me to it, but yeah nice tits and you never know we're looking. I hope these get popular.
You wouldn't be saying that if you saw her face... >.>
Haha glad you guys liked this post. I find it hard to breathe just by looking at it!
Why?
I do not know about all of you but the way that my laptop outputs heat I would be sweating bullets and maybe passed out by the time I got passed the boot screen.
Also what about the safety. So your have your noise canceling headphones and this and the building catches on fire, or your flight changes to another gate, or you miss your subway exit, or............. the point is that you could get pretty lost (and because people see you with this they will not help you) just to have a little privacy. I do not know about you but if I had a good, even moderatly good laptop (such as I do have) I just might want people to see what it can do.
I'd like to see one of those Korean models show off this product ....
How do you know she's not a Korean model??
she isnt showing enough skin
i'd hit that
Just throw a blanket over your head, or better yet, stay home!
Uhhh... ummm... err... OK. My momma taught me never to laugh at someone else's idea. So, I am just going to point out a few flaws (some of which have already been mentioned):
1) overheat the laptop
2) your stuff gets ripped off
3) overheat you, unless you're outside and it's cold, in which case #2 is even more likely and add in:
4) getting the sh!t beat out of you
5) getting the sh!t beat out of you as you are gang tackled by security.
6) Missing the exit/flight/boat, whatever.
Not to mention that ol' reach around if you're a woman. The gropinator strikes.
Slap a Apple Logo on it and the Assclown army will buy it in the millions beacue they will all buy 3 like they do ipods.
"You don't use the ijerk private user interface device, you must be a Zune owner!".
As a Mac owner, I take offense at that statement.
This was clearly made for Linux users.
After all, we were smart enough to reject the iPod sock, but have you SEEN the way Torvalds dresses?
I am the Lorax and I speak for the trees.
And if you keep on doing as you please
That god awful thing will just make me sneeze
And get a poor rating on Engadget, Please!
first thought:
EPIC FAIL.
second thought:
"Privacy, warmth, concentration"? for what, watching porn?
I just want to say thank you, engadget commenters. Thank you for not asking whether it will blend (yes) or whether it will play doom (no), or commenting on the fact that you, for one, welcome our Once-ler sweatshopping overlords.
I also want to say that this is NOT something that nobody, nobody, nobody needs. It would make a really great turtleneck for a baby giraffe amputee. Does nobody care about the baby giraffe amputees? Way to be heartless, Engadget!
"Onceler-sweatshopping overlords"?
Thank you.
This would make a most opportune fark.com photoshop challenge.
Is she molesting that geoduck?
When I see that I imagine a female marine leaning in and giving a double thumbs-up.
suffocate much?
If the battery in that laptop explodes her face is gone.
Think of the trufala trees!
Time to grab a titty!
That is so wrong. So why am I still laughing?
So you can check your alternate Myspace page with out the fear of prying eyes.
Somebody must have read CAD in that one flashback sequence where Ethan does the same thing when playing Everquest incessantly.
Op, someone just copped a feel and your head is connected to your laptop w/ an oversized chinese fingertrap.
Has anyone ever heard of the HMD? No?
Burqas for laptops!
Suddenly... the number of Idiot-related fires skyrocket...
That is AWESOME
So basically it is condom for ur head
this looks like Kenny
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bekathwia/2396431018/in/set-72157604381050339/
The TSA is not happy...
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That's the FapMaster3, I invented that when I was 13. Totally stolen concept.
Now that's just asking for a drive-by dope slap.