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Talk ... Without Speaking
mjm7 writes "Finally, we might be able to get rid of all those annoying people yelling over the static on their cell phones! CNN has an article about a new technology that senses muscle movements in your face and then translates them into sound. This way all you have to do is mouth words into the phone...not actually speak!" Somehow I suspect that we'd lose a lot of the
subtleties of communication, but it sure would be nice every time hemos calls me from the discotheque.
The Anderson partner called his secretary on his cell phone and said:
Ship the Enron documents to the Feds
But she heard:
Rip the Enron documents to shreds
It turns out that this was all just a case of bad cellular...
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
We'll finally be able to understand what the hell mimes are doing! Rejoice!
"I only speak the truth"
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Not good news for those that like to mutter curses to the morons on the other end of the phone.
Words like this may cause some minor misunderstandings.
Lord, bless my users that they may stop being such fucking idiots!!
With keyboards we successfully took away peoples needs to physically write something... with this we won't need people to verbally speak... next it'll be visual impulses shot right into your head so you really don't need your eyes anymore... sheesh...
"and scream without raising your voice."
-jc
Talking on my phone
I twitch, about to sneeze hard.
Phone thinks I said "F*CK."
I can hear it now...
"Domo Arigato, Mister Roboto"
does anyone remember the "my teacher is an alien!! series? plot synopsis: 4th grader finds out teacher is an alien (suprise, suprise), teacher/alien sees him seeing him, and keeping glactic security safe, takes him up into the New Jersey (mega-big spaceship), and they cruise about, saving the universe.
anywho, i read (and probably own) the whole series in probably 4th grade, i'm 18 1/2 now. on one of their missions, they had special devices like this; except it attached to your throat muscles, which is probably a whole lot easier and less conspicious. the funny part was that they had to whisper, otherwise they'd "yell" right into the other people's earsets. good to know this stuff is comming to fruit
my teacher is an alien on amazon.com
the interesting thing about the series, is that it explains in amazingly simple terminology, using a large noodle, how hyperspace works. i'd explain more, but i don't want to get modded offtopic TOO much. and i have to go to work.
moox. for a new generation.
"Rotate the pod please, Hal..."
... I could see your lips moving ...
Dave
-Ev
I stole this sig from someone cleverer than me.
to those with Tourette Syndrome.
How about all those times you get a phone call and you realize you don't want to talk them and as they drone and drone and drone you mouth to anyone around you "SHUT THE F-CK UP!!!" Now they will hear that.
RonB
It is human nature to take shortcuts in thinking.
(It's just a JOKE! I know I'm not the first to think of it.)
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Usually when I mouth a word into my phone it usually means I DON'T want the other person to hear it. I'm not sure what the learning curve would be on a device like this but chances are that until person hits it they are going to have a lot of explaining to do!!
I stole this Sig
You may not be aware of this or have thought of it this way, but a microwave oven is basically just a big, unmodulated radio station broadcasting in the microwave band instead of the radio band.
Are you a real physics genius, or do you just play one in front of your liberal arts friends ;)
"From crippling diseases to the negative effects of a lifetime of smoking, some people simply cannot use their vocal chords."
For some reason, this sentence conjured up a picture in my mind of Steven Hawking sounding a bit like a furby on the phone.
"Derp de derp."
"Read my lips. No new taxes (today)."