Friendly little corn zipper

Corn zipper

I saw this advertised in one of my cooking magazines. It's not quite local corn season yet, but I plan to get this smilely-faced little tool this year for all my corn zipping needs. From the NY Times:

It looks like a tiny Venetian carnival mask with a winsome smile, but the new stainless steel corn zipper, made by Kuhn Rikon, is an effective gadget for summer cooking. Knives can cut into the cob even when used by the steadiest hand, but the corn zipper's little teeth precisely separate the kernels from the cob so that they drop into a bowl.