It's billed as device that lets you record lectures from the backrow or capture the sounds of frogs and crickets at night, but we know who is going to be using the Super Ear with its "adjustable 50 decibel gain on sounds picked up from its multi-element high sensitivity microphone."

And we think the manufacturer knows as well, from its smug slogan, "What binoculars did for vision, this product does for listening."

Mm hmm, and it's small enough to fit in a purse or manbag, no doubt.

Super Ear ($39.99) [ThinkGeek via Popgadget]