Aesthetic surgeons in the business of facial wrinkle reduction have noted that if one weakens the glabella muscle with injections of AbobotulinumtoxinA without also weakening the frontalis muscle, unwanted side effects can occur. Known in the trade as ‘Spock,’ ‘Joker,’ or ‘Mephisto’ eyebrows. These side effects can be avoided by also injecting the fontalis muscle […]
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No more disheveled kilts? (new patent)
Attention kilt wearers! Does your kilt sometimes look, well . . . wrinkled, matted or otherwise disheveled? Is it hanging properly? If not, help is at hand from inventor Joseph E. Austin of Las Vegas, US. “Like other garments, kilts have been stored and hanged using conventional hangers. Unfortunately, kilts are not like other garments […]
Another wrinkle in the wrinkled-fingers investigation
A new German study snaps its fingers, metaphorically, at recent studies of human finger-wrinkling: Finger Wrinkling (2014, not gripping) “Water-Induced Finger Wrinkles Do Not Affect Touch Acuity or Dexterity in Handling Wet Objects,” Julia Haseleu, Damir Omerbašić equal, Henning Frenzel, Manfred Gross, Gary R. Lewin, PLoS ONE, 9(1), 2014, e84949. (Thanks to Achim Reinsdorf for […]
Emotional Gauging of Students via Forehead Wrinkle Extraction
It’s not always easy to gauge whether students have understood lesson content (or not). Perhaps an automated measuring system could be devised – measuring their forehead wrinkles for example? At least two scholarly texts are available for those interested in the possibilities offered by forehead wrinkle evaluation in the classroom. The first is provided by […]