Mute Mic is the perfect addition to your next antisocial karaoke event
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted May 1st 2009 4:11PM
posted May 1st 2009 4:11PM
You know how your voice always sounds better in your own head than it does on tape? Apparently, someone in Japan agrees with you. To that end, they've put together a little microphone with a silencer -- so the next time you come home at 3 am, all hopped up on Sake and intent on generating a sorrowful wail alongside the backing track of what was once a hit for the Carpenters, make sure you're packing the Mute Mic. This bad boy is designed to muzzle your song-hole, ensuring that whatever sound you do generate remains restricted to you and your Wii. Your neighbors will thank you, and the estate of Karen Carpenter will thank you. Already a karaoke star? Show us your skills after the break.
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Tinu, jabber: you complete me.
WTF CRAPGADGET!!!!!!!!!
david blaine's street magic.
At first when I read the title I thought mute like a person who can't speak, I was thinkin wtf is this for lol
This thing should be called 'The STFU Mic'! Imagine the Spit and Drool trapped in that thing after a party.
Actually, I know a few people that would love this for Rock Band. They like singing, but hate everyone hearing their voice.
WTF, thats like a hot chick at a topless beach not like people looking at her?
Just because they like singing doesn't mean they're any good at it.
How dare you talk about me that way ... :(
I think you mean "sake" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sake)
I hate me for nitpicking but somebody's already going to do it, I may as well take the hit for the team.
Eh, I was going to post the same. I think potshots at typos are allowed when the tone of the article is irreverent. It's all in good fun.
you figured that a drink that has been adapted to the American taste (sake bomb anyone?) would not be misspelled. but true, typos are what they are. failure to type properly. atleast he didn't say something ridiculous :P
The pub I was in yesterday had written "karoake" in at least two different places.
Too easy...the jokes are too easy for this one....
agreed. I call this a total "your mom" article.
Looks like a good way to spread the piggy flu :D
Does he mean sake and not saki?
What is for Wii? Perhaps a sex toy lol
I've got a something that will silence her at 3am.
too far?
Silence her? You're going to put her to sleep with your sexual prowess?
She can't sing if her mouth is full.
That's the point, it wont be full.
I have seen these used during court preceding by the transcriber (served as a juror)
Someone's going home with herpes
Or swine flu.
...or both.
Swine herpes.
swerpes
Swerpes. So bad its good.
wasn't something resembling this gadget also used as a portal urinal?
It didn't sell well with the camera (well, except in japan) so they repackaged it with a microphone instead.
Karen Carpenter was a pretty good drummer.
I don't know that song. I was all ready to croon to Close To You.
thats just asking to be used as a sex gadget.
PS, why doesn't sexgadget.com exist (maybe it does, i'm at work so i dont want to check)?
Its actually pretty good for people in an apartment that want to practice singing loud songs without disturbing your neighbors. Why anyone would want to use this for reasons other than practicing their singing though is beyond me.
I just noticed it doesnt cover your nose, kind of an important body part for singing/talking unless youre Kermit the Frog
Based solely on the pic, I was guessing it was a female urinal.
"This bad boy is designed to muzzle your song-hole"
Awesome choice of words lol
I have to get me one of these to mic my drum kit.
lol, those crazy japanese. They're so genius.
Maybe I can use this at my website: http://www.myvideoke.com
Did anyone else see the Goatse?
Put a dick in it. That will make it a best seller.
or... put a dick in it, release some man juice, then tell a girl to sing in it.
Wow this is hella old, I read about this months ago. :(
That reminds me of the episode of Sledge Hammer! where the title character (a parody of Dirty Harry) is transformed into a parody of Robocop, and tricks a criminal by calling him on the phone and disguising his voice. While making the call, the newly minted Hammeroid sticks the receiver into his mouth, like the couplers used in old telephone modems.
Brilliant.
Not sure I want to hold anything that looks like it's supposed to unclog a toilet up to my mouth, but to each his/her own.
What happens to the air you breathe out? Surely it doesn't pass through the mic? And how can it travel through the mouth cover if its supposed to be sound proof?
Sight, I was hoping to see some tentacle porn.