The man you see here is Alex. He is a gamer who suffers from spinal muscular atrophy. That means that he lacks the muscular control and therefore the precision to use standard controllers. Now stop for a second and imagine how frustrating that must be. You love playing games, but your body is working against you.
Luckily for Alex and others like him, Special Effect is here to help. It is a charitable organization in the UK that helps disabled gamers play. Yes, that really exists and it is awesome.
The outfit set up a rig that lets Alex control the game by twitching his eyebrows. He plays Minecraft just as well as anyone else in fact, by moving the tiny levers placed over his eyebrows. He uses one control to place blocks, and the other to jump, while a gaze tracking system lets him move around. Alex also plays FIFA using the same system, with the eyebrow switches controlling passing and shooting.
Media usually portrays men as slobs and women as vain and fussy, when the fact of the matter is that guys care about their looks, too. So why shouldn’t they have tools and accessories that will make personal hygiene and grooming easier? Tools like this eyebrow shaving stencil that I’m sure some girls will find useful as well.
The stencil is fashioned from polypropylene, which the manufacturer claims is an ‘anti-bacterial’ material. Which is good, because we don’t want bacteria spreading on your man brows. Blech. Notably, this stencil won’t help people tame their unibrows since both stenciled eyebrows are connected in the middle by the handle.
The Men’s Eyebrow Shaving Guide retails for $32.
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Just when I think that I could find no more weird gadgets from Japan, along comes yet another ridiculous invention that’s designed to solve a single, decidedly first-world problem – unruly men’s eyebrows.
Just place the Men’s Eyebrown Shaving Guide over the bridge of your nose, and let it grip onto your face like a headcrab. Once in place, you brush any excess eyebrow hairs to the outside of the guide and then trim them.
I had no idea that this was really a problem that was in need of a solution, but if you’re obsessed with manscaping and having perfectly symmetrical, dainty eyebrows, then whip out your credit cards and head over to the Japan Trend Shop, where you can grab the Men’s Eyebrow Shaving Guide for $33(USD).