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Mobile Phone in Your Teeth!

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yes-gimme-gimme-now dept.

thumbtack writes "News.com is running a story that reports that British researchers claim to have developed an implant that could be placed in a tooth and used as a mobile phone. According to the article, the sound would be transferred to the inner ear by bone resonance, and could be listened too anytime anywhere, with complete privacy." This is awesome. Course it would kinda suck if your phone rang when you were asleep.

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  1. Power by Eliza+Doolittle · · Score: -1, Redundant


    How is it powered? The article doesn't say.

    Do I need the phone in one tooth, and a little battery in each of the others?

    Do I need to keep my head near one of those inductance based chargers for 6 hours a day? That would be ... erm ... annoying?

  2. Hell no! by toupsie · · Score: 2, Redundant
    The main reason I don't carry a cell phone is that I never get a call like this, "Hey, I just wanted you to know that everything is running perfect. Thanks for the incredible job you are doing making all this stuff I don't understand work." All I get are people griping because this or that isn't working which usually it is, but they are too ignorant to figure it out -- power cords are confusing -- does it go in the wall or work better laying on the floor? The last thing I need is a cell phone implanted in my mouth so people at any hour of the day can piss me off with their problems or even worse, telemarketers!

    No thanks! I want technology that seperates me from my fellow human beings. All this technology that tries to bring us together ends up biting us in the collective ass.

    --
    Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
  3. ironic by TheTomcat · · Score: 1, Redundant

    British Researchers have found a way to make teeth ugly?

    hmmm..

    S