Just what you've always wanted: an ear wax camera

Posted on July 1, 2006 by Nicholas Gruen
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ear_wax.jpg

5 Comments

  1. Lin
    July 2, 2006

    Oh Nick, you just don't understand Japanese culture! Fancy being ignorant of the need to keep your ears clean, especially if you're a cultured person. What else would you do to ensure that your bodily hygene was up to scratch? Have you ever tried any other way of checking inside your ears? Phillistine.

  2. Jason Soon
    July 3, 2006

    80 to 95 percent of East Asians have dry earwax, whereas the wet variety is abundant in people of African and European ancestry (97 to 100 percent).

    http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/060129_ear_wax.html

    This may explain the need for such a product in Japan. It's harder to remove dry earwax.

  3. Ken Parish
    July 3, 2006

    Too much information.

  4. Nicholas Gruen
    July 3, 2006

    Dry earwax. Well there you go. You never know what you're gonna find out when you post on Troppo.

  5. Andrew
    July 7, 2006

    Interesting to see just once though. I got to see it when getting an industrial hearing test recently, and it's amazing how big the bits of wax look on a 20" screen!