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Talk ... Without Speaking

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-that's-absolutely-brilliant dept.

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.

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  1. Anderson by swordboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

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  2. finally! by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: 5, Funny

    We'll finally be able to understand what the hell mimes are doing! Rejoice!

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  3. The mute and deaf by spookysuicide · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Imagine what a world of difference this would make to the mute or to people who had lost the use of their voice due to throat cancer. It seems weird they didn't mention the applications this would have for people who have lost or have never had the use of their voice.

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  4. Feelings in Haiku form... by MonkeyBot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Talking on my phone
    I twitch, about to sneeze hard.
    Phone thinks I said "F*CK."

  5. It's coming... by IdahoEv · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Rotate the pod please, Hal..."

    Dave ... I could see your lips moving ...

    -Ev

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  6. Re:This is bad news because... by ziriyab · · Score: 5, Funny
    PhysicsGenius wrote:
    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.

    ...and lightbulbs are just microwave ovens broadcasting mainly in the visible range. And where do we put these light bulbs? Everywhere we live!!! Oh my GOD, we're all gonna die of cancer from light bulbs!

    Are you a real physics genius, or do you just play one in front of your liberal arts friends ;)