Pen with a retractable dish that can focus distance sound on pickups near the point. It has a headphone jack in the non-business end.

Useful for students, reporters (especially political pundits from the New York Times), and your basic nosy person.
-- centauri, Sep 12 2000

Make the dish detachable and get a convenient cosmic ray deflector beanie in the bargain!
-- jutta, Sep 12 2000


This is only a *little* off subject--Rods, have you every experimented with making the platters from defunct disk drives into reflectors? Seems like with the proper form one may be able to squeeze the aluminum-substrate ones into shallow bowls, eh?
-- Dog Ed, Apr 29 2001


Ouijabrella -speaking of OuiJa... Yes-Fr./Yes-Grmn.
-- thumbwax, Apr 30 2001


*scratches head* whatwazzat, thumbwax?
-- absterge, Apr 30 2001


I have a vague memory of this gadget (exactly the same, right down to the earphone) on The Man From U.N.C.L.E or some other 60s-vintage spy show.
-- td, Apr 30 2001



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