Nov 18 2008
Why Every Mom Needs an Eye Clops
For those of you unfamiliar with the magnificent magnifying fun that is the Eye Clops Bionic Eye , let me introduce you.
This little doodad can magnify anything up to 200x right up on your television screen. Amazing, no? It’s true, take a gander at this sucker.
This was taken in March when the tween had a bout of head lice. Yep. This is what head lice looks like magnified 200 times. This is a digital photo of my TV screen displaying the Eye Clops in all it’s glorious magnification action. Needless to say, seeing one of these buggers up close made us all feel a little worse about having an epidemic sized population living right on my daughter’s head. It made me want to put her entire upper half in one of those bio-hazard bags and rush her to the nearest treatment center. But being able to zoom in on those suckers as I was plucking them out of her head with a fine toothed comb, was integral in the diagnosis. I mean, there was all that itching and the crawling things in her hair were almost a dead giveaway, but this confirmed it. Proof positive head lice exist and are not a myth created by pharmaceutical companies to get you to buy really pricey pesticide shampoo.
The Eye Clops was actually quite a hit at our house. This famous little gadget Santa bestowed upon us just last year.
As if that’s not a good enough reason to put one on your child’s Christmas list, consider this. If you put an Eye Clops right up to your face, you can see right down to every single pore on your cheek. It’s fascinating. Really. Viewing every single crack, every single speck of dirt, every single black head, every single oily follicle, every single errant hair up on a 50 inch screen. Who wouldn’t want to see that?
Because we women need to be able to count every single strand of hair growing on our upper lips. That harmless peach fuzz we tend to ignore on a regular basis, up close looks like an Amazonian rain forest. It’s quite lovely. You almost expect to see a flock of colorful macaws taking flight from their branches.
It’s like nature, hideously growing out of your face.
Really, it will do wonders for your self esteem.
Ok, I think I’ll skip the eyeclops facial treatment. I once looked in one of those magnifying mirrors and I’ve since been scarred for life. I guess it would be great for head lice but it would still give me nightmares.
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Thanks for sharing in my SITS day with me!
I NEED one of these! Diva won’t stop biting her nails and I keep trying to explain to her all the bugs she is eating….think this might help with that?
Very interesting but no thanks. I have a mirror. That is hard enough to look into some mornings!
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While the toy certainly sounds fun, I can pass on the head lice and pore examination. Lice scare the heck out of me and my self esteem is low enough without having to see my flaws blown up 200X. They are plenty big enough at regular size. I think the kids would love it though.
Yucky! I hate those magnifying glasses they have in hotel rooms. You can see every single pore on your skin. Let’s not even talk about wrinkles…
Us beautiful women were not intended to be looked at with a magnifying glass. Maybe some moonlight or candle light. That’s the way to go!
Holy shit! WOW! Incredible little gadget! I feel your pain with the whole lice thing. Thankfully we only had that problem once in 18 yrs. But once was enough. And she learned one of life’s most important lessons. Sharing brushes and hugging people with lice is soooooooo wrong!
Wow…I never knew what head lice looked like before…that’s weird!
Ummmm…THANK YOU for talking me out of this great gift. LOL
I wondered if this worked and almost got it last year. Now I know! My boys were asking if we could see dust mites yesterday and I guess you might could with this. Certainly lots of other creatures…
Ewwww. We got one of thse things last year from Santa too. I think I’m gonna go and dig it out and look at things. I don’t think we have lice though, but I might now get it out and check…
You’re not by any chance a spokeswoman for the Eye Clop are you?
YOu got me NOT wanting one in a hundred years! Oh, I think I just saw their marketshare drop 100 points today.
That is pretty cool!
Also, since my other neglected blog is on Today - that is why it shows up instead of It Is Nap Time…
Oy, I needed one of those in May when my daughter had a headful of unwanted visitors. As part of the bifocal crowd, I couldn’t make out those little freaks with a magnifying glass and finally had to just guess. An eyeclops would have been such a big help, especially if it could also have handled all the washing and combing.
Sorry — TMI?
I’m not sure which is worse - having lice or seeing that horrible picture. Yeesh.
I don’t need a cyclops to show me my imperfections. I have two sons who consider it their life’s calling.
This post not only made me way too aware of my clogged pores, but also made my head itch. That eyeclops does look cool, though.
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