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Headset Uses Bone-Conduction Technology

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the something-to-jaw-about dept.

Wired reports that a new headset is on the way to solve all those background noise problems you have had with your cell phone in crowded areas. This new bluetooth headset uses "bone-conduction" technology that converts vibrations from you jaw into sound. The article claims it should be available as early as later this year for around $200.

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  1. What if.. by xirtap · · Score: 4, Funny

    What if you're chewing gum while talking?

    1. Re:What if.. by tomhudson · · Score: 2, Funny

      What if you're chewing gum while talking?

      Not a problem ... you see, all those idiots who think they look so uber-cool using a bluetooth headset can't even chew gum and WALK, never mind talk. And for those who exceptions, it not like anyone on the other end is listening anyway ...

    2. Re:What if.. by Zeinfeld · · Score: 3, Funny
      This reminds me of a conversation at an IETF some time ago.

      Everyone was sitting round showing of their latest geek toys. The short wave radio that fits in a matchbox, a GPS unit fitted into a pen, a working two-way pager/cell phone combo, that sort of stuff.

      So its the turn of this guy from the MIT Media Lab. He taps on the back of his hand a few times as if he is typing on a keypad, then he starts talking. Seeing that we are not at all impressed he says "oh hold on have to put them on speaker phone". And it is Nicholas Negroponte himself telling us the wonders of the subcutaneous telephone implant.

      OK so if they are so great why doesn't he have one?

      A while later they are closing up the bar and the Media Lab guy has disappeared and left his bag behind. I go off to the loo to look for him and I find him crouched over the toilet with his trousers down by his ankles and a bog roll shoved up his bum. "Are you alright", I ask. "Yeah fine, just receiving a fax".

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    3. Re:What if.. by tomhudson · · Score: 1, Funny

      Lets just hope he didn't refill the toner cartridge by eating burritos :-)

    4. Re:What if.. by Who235 · · Score: 5, Funny

      What if you punch the asshole in the jaw who keeps talking through the ballgame/movie/dinner/concert?

      What will they hear on the other end?

      It's like a koan, man. . .

  2. What you jawing about? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    What you jawing about?

  3. Wife just slapped me... by JustASlashDotGuy · · Score: 5, Funny


    I just asked my wife if she'd be interested in talking on the bone phone....
    ...she didn't find it nearly as funny as I did.

  4. Re:Science Museum Exhibit by lixee · · Score: 2, Funny

    In the same spirit, tie a string to a spoon (with the spoon being at the middle of the string). Then, hold both ends of the string onto both ears and kick the spoon against a table. Church bells!

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  5. Swimming googles? by LordEd · · Score: 3, Funny
    a pair of swimming googles with a built-in mp3 player

    Google's getting into everything these days. Is that swim.google.com?

    Do they sell goggles there?
  6. Re:great! by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Exactly. The ear itself already uses bone induction "technology".

    Wake me when they develop a bone induction foot-set for my shoe phone.

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  7. Re:Has been available outside the US for a while n by KinkifyTheNation · · Score: 2, Funny

    I would be afraid if Japan didn't have this already.

  8. Bone phone? by Geminii · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is that what's used to make... booty calls?