Smile or Suffer the Consequences While Wearing the Happiness Hat

1. MightyCow
   October 28th, 2009 at 10:43 pm

   Somebody doesn't understand how conditioning works very well. Using pain to try to encourage smiles is pretty counter productive.

2. Manticore
   October 28th, 2009 at 10:46 pm

   ooooook that's not at all creepy...

3. Flux
   October 28th, 2009 at 10:54 pm

   BE HAPPY! >:D
   Reminds me of the ab control device that was making its rounds a few years back. It had a sensor that could tell when you wern't sucking your stomach in and would sound an alarm.
   I wouldn't be suprised if nobody here has heard of it... it probably wasn't a big seller after people got fed up and tossed the thing off.

4. mikerbaker
   October 28th, 2009 at 11:16 pm

   Lauren McCarthy is an artist/designer. This is a funny and fun design, not meant to be scientific or marketable. Happiness Hat is just a piece of OW! a great invention and you should put one on now.

5. Dennis
   October 28th, 2009 at 11:24 pm

   "Through repeated use of this conditioning device you can train your brain to smile all the time."

   If grimace=smile.

6. Gauldar
   October 28th, 2009 at 11:27 pm

   This might be popular in the telemarketing industry in China.

7. Edie Howe
   October 28th, 2009 at 11:35 pm

   You know, it doesn't surprise me that it's a woman who's wearing the hat; Women are routinely told to "smile!", and we're told we're bitches when we don't.

   Now if we don't smile, we get a metal spike in the back of the head.

   I'm really hoping Lauren McCarthy is making a statement about how society expects women to be welcoming, congenial, and friendly.

   Bugger that for tuppence.

8. Johnny Cat
   October 28th, 2009 at 11:41 pm

   I like how the spike went into her head.

   Seriously, this is

9. Alan Lamb
   October 28th, 2009 at 11:45 pm

   I hope I'm not the only one who finds this whole idea to be pretty creepy, especially considering that the model is female. A jolt of pain if you stop wearing a stretched, uncomfortable smile even momentarily? Okay...

10. Skipweasel
    October 29th, 2009 at 1:32 am

    It's a bit Stepford Wivesish, isn't it?

11. Øyvind
    October 29th, 2009 at 2:29 am

    As an unforeseen side effect, it also works without the hat: I'm now smiling just from seeing the device in action on someone else.

12. bradbury
    October 29th, 2009 at 3:20 am

    Ren & Stimpy did it! see happy happy joy joy song.

13. Zecc
    October 29th, 2009 at 4:55 am

    I ROFLed at the related videos.

14. Taylor
    October 29th, 2009 at 9:45 am

    Wow! Don't let Disney get a hold of that thing!

15. Mila
    October 29th, 2009 at 10:40 am

    I can't view the video! It says that it's private.

16. lookas
    October 29th, 2009 at 10:43 am

    it doesn't work anymore

17. Trabb's Boy
    October 29th, 2009 at 12:59 pm

    That was hilarious! That little noise would haunt your dreams long after you took the hat off.

18. Colt Seaver
    October 29th, 2009 at 2:30 pm

    This could damned well fix customer service. Everywhere.

19. Lloyd
    October 29th, 2009 at 4:18 pm

    Brought to you by A Clockwork Orange Incorporated.

20. Noelegy
    November 1st, 2009 at 12:31 am

    Colt Seaver, anyone who's ever worked in customer service already knows the feeling of "smile or you'll get a spike to the back of the head."

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