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Handy Wristwatch Phone
femto writes "ABC is reporting that Japanese researchers have demonstrated a wristwatch phone that uses the wearer's finger as an ear piece. To make a call, you put your finger in your ear and speak into the watch on your wrist. " Finally a phone that makes side talking look cool.
Talk to the hand!
Due to the superior acoustical properties involved, the next version of the phone will be interfacing with the nasal cavity. Company officials tout this version as having intrinsically greater privacy effects, as well.
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Now you can pretend to be an undercover agent without talking to yourself.
Now we have absolutely *no* way of telling who's crazy and who's just talking to their friend on their phone. Thanks a lot!
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This was covered LONG time ago. Here, for example. Old, old news. 03:00 AM Oct. 16, 2000 PT - the date.
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Well least with this the next time someone is listening to Brinty Spears and you put your fingers in your ears you can just say you are making a phone call
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Where do you put your finger to dial?
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Maybe they could figure out a way to put the mouthpiece on a pinky wring. Then you could stick your thumb in your ear and extend your pinky to use the phone. You'd still look dorky as hell, but at least people would know what you were doing.
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Yeah, I want to be sticking my finger in my ear all day. Even more, I want to be shaking hands with people who've had their fingers in their ears all day.
I'll pass.
"We're sorry, but the website you're trying to reach has been disconnected."
.. because walking around, semi-distracted, with your finger stuck in your ear is such a wise idea! Can you imagine the mess when someone trips and their finger slips a little depper? Ouch.
Another japanese technological miracle. Stick one finger in your ear and talk to another and look like a complete twat to everyone within close proximity.
I bet Q-tip is thrilled- and talking to the phone sanitizer wipe companies about new vertical markets!
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Hey, it worked for Inspector Gadget. He totally had this before anyone else!
Am I the only one that had the inspector gadget theam song go charging rampantly through my head while readint the little blurb?
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a tinfoil hat, so you can look *really* cool when using it?
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I'll wait for the Fingers Free Adapter to come out! My arm already hurts from holding a phone up to my ear. I don't want to know what pain will come from awkwardly holding my whole arm to my head!
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Apparently my uncle that thought his bones were talking to him wasnt crazy, he was just ahead of his time.
"Take your hands off me! No... stop... I'm on the phone. No, I'm not talking to voices in my head. No, I don't want a new jacket with extra long sleeves!"
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so what does it actually look like? i can't find any pictures in the linked page
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I mean, what if you want to give the phone to the person next to you to speak? do you just give them your finger? what if you're driving?
DoCoMos Finger Phone
On October 11th, 2000 with 164 comments
...now when I blow a whistle into the phone I can shatter their ear drums AND their wrists!!!
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1. Still doesn't eliminate the use of your hand (obviously). So if you are driving (which you shouldn't be anyway), or cooking or whatever, you're SOL.
2. It's hard to pass the phone around. If you are with a friend and another friend calls and wants to speak to your friend, what do you do? Stick your finger in their ear? You better be really good friends.
Anyways, the novelty of the idea is interesting but the practicality seems to be almost nonexistent.
..Mr Game and Watch on there. Or else it's just another gimmick :).
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But people think it's rude to put my finger there...
..."Its for you"...
What is the sound of one hand clapping?
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I can already see the next business opportunity: fake cell phone handsets which clip on to your hand so you can "hold" them while sticking your finger in your ear and making a call on your watch. Other people don't need to know your phone handset is fake! $19.95 + s/h.
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Could be worse... It could be a nasal finger phone.
"Kad dou hear be dow?"
Push enough RF to induce cancer, well given where my watch usually rests close to when typing on a keyboard all day or hanging down resting when standing...Homey Don't Play that.
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This feature has already been invented in this previously posted parody.
There's a picture here.
And why didn't they make it like the "real" hand phone, where you listen to your thumb and speak into your pinky?
That would have been cool! Like this it just looks stupid.
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.. you can tell them to pull your finger?
Yep. This is old news. The oldest reference I have come across is 1999 (near the bottom).
Small picture in second page of pdf file.
Bit more info
Paper writen on technology used (reg required)
The same guy has also been involved in wearable keyboards which uses finger rings to detect finger movement and 10Mb indoor network that uses human bodies as portable ethernet cables. Masaaki Fukumoto is a busy man.
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An alternate version will soon be announced that will provide even greater privacy through subvocalization. To make this work, the user will have to stick the thumb of his other hand in his mouth. Look for the official annoucement in 1st Quarter 2004.
Adrian
Small picture on second page of pdf file.
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(And I thought dirty telephones were bad. Do you know where that finger has been? Do you really want to know?)
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This thing it's the product of a conspiracy of the Secret Service. Now the president won't have a clue if there's a security detail problem or the agents are simply talking to their girlfriends.
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Imagine breaking you arm; how dou you phone then ?
Imagine being on a date with the girl of your dreams; a common friend calls you on the phone and wants to speak to her, you stand up and plug your finger in the girl's hear ?
How does the phne recognize a touch of the finger to the thumb that says that you want to activate the phone from a "regular" touch ? (hint : touch fo the thumb by the finger is basically the advantage of having opposable thumbs, so you're likely to record numerous such events on any primate).
What effect do audible-frenquency daily vibrations do to your articulations ? It's not that I'm very conversative or paranoid, but I'm a pianist as well and I wouldn't like to mess with arthrose too much...
Reminds me of an old joke that ended with the guy recieving a FAX.
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Wow, now I can finally look like my hero, Inspector Gadget!!
"Go Go, Gadget Phone!"
This sounds more and more like the 'wrist phone' prototype that ATT talked about in the early and mid 1990's. It was featured in one of their 'you will' ads, and a "working" (can't remember how well) prototype was on display at their pavillion at Epcot Center.
I don't have any links or pictures, but if anybody else has them, feel free to post them.
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Why not just make a lapel pin for men and a necklace for women so that you don't have to walk around with your damn finger in your ear. Who thinks people will do this?
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I thought it had been proven that one of the leading causes of carpal tunnel was excessive vibrations of the wrist. Now if this thing attaches as a wrist watch, and operates by vibrating your bones enough that you can hear the resonance through your finger, it seems it would be one of the last things any rational thinking person would want.
Personally, I try to avoid carpal tunnel, and this sounds like it was designed to cause it.
I'll pass.
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The user puts his finger into his ear for the vibrations to be picked up by the eardrum, which then transcribes them back into sound signals for the brain.
I can't wait to see my mechanic use one of these while working on my car.
"Just a sec...Hello th...AWWW! MAN! I'VE GOT GREASE IN MY EAR!"
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when someone answers their finger phone and then says "it's for you..."
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Yeah, but that would only be a problem if you shake hands with someone whose finger was in his ear up to his wrist.
Your bones are already hit/stirred/shaken continuously; by your movement, by the movement of conveyances in which you travel, and by any sound wave substantial enough to pass through the meaty bag of water which constitutes your body.
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DoCoMos Finger Phone
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On October 11th, 2000 with 164 comments
A reader writes: "DoCoMo has done it again. This time they have a phone where the speaker is your finger. Put your finger in your ear and listen as you speak...
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/11/14252
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"Hello. Oh, OK. Here, it's for you.".
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DoCoMo had a concept of this that I remember reading about almost two, maybe three years ago! On here even!
Blake
Are there any long-term heatlh hazards here? A derivative of carpel-tunnel?
So to activate bluetooth, do I grab my balls?
Now all I need to see is a picture of some Japanese guy walking around with his finger stuck in his ear talking to no one and my life will be complete.
what sig?
I wonder if the sound quality gets beter or worse for those people with fat fingers? Reminisce back to theSimpsons episode on Homer...
Are actually taking long distance calls.
Is it just me, or can you see the phone sex industry salivating over this one?
It also had a headset so I could use in while I was on my bicycle. Small size, voice operated dialing, and easily accessable while on my road bike would be a plus. Not only that, but standing in a airport with your finger in your ear talking to yourself would tend to make people leave you alone, that would be a *BIG* plus.
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Dignitary: I'd shake your hand, but I just made a phone call with my finger in my ear.
Bush: Oh, that's okay, the last three years I've had my thumb up my @$$.
Old joke -
"Did you know you've got your finger in your ear?"
"I'm sorry, you'll have to speak up - I've got my finger in my ear..."
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Its the ear doctors really inventing this phone... now everyone will have ear infections all the time and they will make a ton!
1 Become an ear doctor
2 Make a phone where users stick finger in ear
3 Profit!
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as a tendonitits suffer i cant hold up a phone to my ear for very long sometimes, this kind of technology for phones doesnt help me, nothign but the hands free headset does, adn at least i look like im paying attention to the road. remember: "its the next best thign to payign attention to the road."
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When I used to do raves we would sometimes have to communicate by sticking our fingers in eacho ther's ears. The vibrations from speech would travel up your arm and vibrate directly in the listener's ear. We could carry on pretty detailed conversations that way, which is important when your trying to manage an event with 20k+ people and a sound system that is causing earthquakes on the other side of the globe. It's a little muddy, kind of like speaking through liquid, but it is much better than having someone shout full volume into your ear. Most people find it funny to see two people talking with their finger's in each others ears.
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This might do the trick.
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You think this is bad? Just wait til the Nakamichi Buttphone emerges onto the market. Wait. ..Unfortunate choice of words there...
do you talk to with your finger up your nose? Probably not your Momma!
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I read about this on slashdot a couple of years ago