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The Tongue Twisting Tooth Microphone

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the if-you-get-two-it-records-in-stereo dept.

dylanduck writes "New Scientist has found a patent for a microphone that clips on your tooth, meaning you can stay in radio contact even the noisiest situations - like warzones. You use your tongue to flip it on and off. Here is the patent itself. The same article mentions a blimp that launches like a rocket."

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  1. What all of /. is thinking: by JoeLinux · · Score: 4, Funny

    That is exactly what the Imperial Stormtroopers used to activate their microphone in Star Wars.

    (For those of you who had no life in High School, we learned these things. Then wondered why we had no girlfriends.)

    1. Re:What all of /. is thinking: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

      Actually, stormtrooper comms were just in the helmets; though the devices were controlled with the tongue, they don't have anything inside the mouth.

  2. Lead Inventor's name by backslashdot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anjanappa, Muniswamappa

    A person may have a mic in his mouth, but that's not going to help anyone trying to say this guy's name.

    1. Re:Lead Inventor's name by schtum · · Score: 4, Funny

      I thought you were replying to the Star Wars thread above and read that in a Jabba the Hutt voice: "ANJA-nappa, MUNI-swamappa, CHEW-bacca. Ho, ho, ho."

  3. I missed out by VATechTigger · · Score: 5, Funny

    now all those idiots with toungue peircings can go to job interviews and say that they are just antenae for their cell phones for the competitive edge.....

  4. Geeeth's with bwaceees rejoice! by Nova+Express · · Score: 5, Funny
    Now rugged, he-men, special forces guys will lisp when they talk as well!

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  5. Now to combine different tooth technology by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Crap! Which tooth was the radio and which tooth was the cyanide again?

  6. I saw it being used by RNLockwood · · Score: 5, Funny

    I saw it being used downtown on Monday, the guy didn't appear affluent enough for one but there he was, all by himself, carrying on a animated conversation with no cell phone or ear piece visible, drinking something in a paper sack.

    Nate

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  7. A new combat injury by Stephen+Samuel · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I can see a lot of special forces soldiers suddenly biting their tongue in battle. Preventing that injury is probably going to be the subject of yet another patent.

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  8. THEY HID THE MICROPHONE IN MY TEETH. by mcc · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Freemasons. That's where they put the tracking device. In my teeth. My dentist betrayed me. He was just part of the network. They do it to keep tabs on you-- know where you are, hear everything by secret frequency. At first it was just the ones they'd sent back from the future, but after Tager broke the secret they had to move on to the general public, to ensure the truth didn't spread. Once they got a taste of power they wanted more. The operations expanded. 10,000 Americans every year. Now everything is in preparation for the Colonization. They hear everything. They know where to attack, when. They know where we're weak. It will begin soon.

    Shit, have to go, I think I see helicopters. If I do not post on this site again you will know what happened.

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  9. Re:Patent Filed 4-6-05 however public domain prior by craXORjack · · Score: 4, Funny

    How about when Gilligan got hit in the mouth accidently and his filling became a radio and the Professor tried to turn it into a transmitter to get them off the island?

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  10. Patents patents ... by karvind · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Two other websites about stupid patents:

    Patently Silly

    Totally Absurd Inventions America's Goofiest Patents!

  11. But is it... by TheUnknownCoder · · Score: 4, Funny

    bluetooth compatible?

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  12. Been done already? by zekemacneil · · Score: 5, Funny
    The same article mentions a blimp that launches like a rocket."

    Oh, you mean the Hindenburg?

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  13. Re:Useful by jigyasubalak · · Score: 4, Funny

    A person will have to be a pretty good cunning-linguist
    to operate that thing with one's tongue!

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  14. You Bastard! by bennomatic · · Score: 4, Funny
    > here's a little clue: every language but English is phonetic

    My French teacher didn't think so. I just failed my midterms because of your "wisdom". Merci beaucoup!

    Or as you would have me pronounce it, "Murr-kih bee-yow-cowp"

    ;-)

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