I have one, it works well. And yes, you really do apply directly to the forehead.

I have one too. Its a great alternative to that stupid ear thing that you have to use several times in order to get a concensus temperature. Plus sticking that thing in an infected 4-year olds year REALLY REALLY REALLY sucks.

Yep, we have one too. I bought it several years ago. Much easier to use on a squirmy sick 3-4 year old than the other kinds. You start towards the front of the head and slide it back towards the temple/ear.

They've made something like this for some time now. Do any of you remember those forehead thermometers that were just a plastic strip, and to get a reading, you held it there for several minutes until one of the bars on the front changed color? They weren't terribly accurate, but they must have seemed like a boon to parents whose other alternative was rectal thermometry.

(full disclosure: I'm the Adam who took this picture.)

Yeah, it definitely seems like the sort of thing that would make taking temperatures a lot less annoying. I remember the liquid-crystal forehead thermometers . . . I don't recall them being too terribly accurate, but that might have had something to do with my brothers and I using ours for experiments. :-)

But you've gotta admit the similarity is striking.

experiments? I'm afraid to ask...

FYI: Head-On now has a joint-pain product. And the commercial is equally annoying.

homerjay: Think microwave. :-)

God help us if Head On starts making hemorrhoid cream. "Butt Cream -- Apply directly to..."

Microwave, huh? Why was I thinking penis?

I'm not really sure what started this HeadOn "craze." They've had the same commercial for many many years. Why is it, all of a sudden, so funny recently?

acambras - Is this what you meant?

acambras - You mean like this?