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Totally Amazing Mutant Ears

Posted by Jim Tobias 7 June 2006

Not the turtles. Initially an NYU project for a Mattel toy design competition, Totally Amazing Mutant Ears has real hearing enhancement potential, albeit in a wacky package. Imagine a large set of headphones, with each side attached to even larger forward-facing, sound-collecting plastic hemispheres. Now imagine it all in bold colors. “Stigma? We don’ got no stinkin’ stigma.”

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