Mike Haeg is the mayor of Mount Holly, Minnesota*. He also hates talking on the telephone, and to make his point he hacked together this amazing Bluetooth headset. Inside, the guts are that same as you’d find in any other Bluetooth earpiece. Outside, it’s a gun.
Take a call and you look like you’re about to blow your own brains out. I’m totally with Mayor Mike on this: I feel suicidal every time my cellphone rings (unless the called is from my honey-voiced editor Dylan Tweney, in which case I close my eyes, kick back and just let the lilting, mellifluous tones wash over me).
Mike’s headset charges over USB, and works like this: ” I draw the gun out of my pocket, stick the barrel in my ear (the speaker is in the business end), and pull the trigger to answer the call.” Screwing your eyes shut before you pull that trigger is optional but recommended.
The next stage may or may not be a coat of paint to make the orange toy a little more realistic. Mike says “I get equally giddy and frightened by the panic that this could cause should someone not notice that the gun is a fake or should I accidentally take a call while at the bank.”
This is my favorite hack this month. Playful, simple and very funny. I’m thinking of making two. One to use, and a matching water-filled squirt-gun to sneakily swap in when somebody wants to try it out.
Handgun Bluetooth Earpiece Project [Mt. Holly Mayor’s Office via Boing Boing]
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