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Nerve-tapping Neckband Allows 'Telepathic' Chat

Posted by samzenpus on from the mouth-of-cyber-sauron dept.

ZonkerWilliam writes "Newscientist has an interesting article on tapping the nerve impulses going from the brain to the vocal chords, allowing for 'Voiceless' phone calls. "With careful training a person can send nerve signals to their vocal cords without making a sound. These signals are picked up by the neckband and relayed wirelessly to a computer that converts them into words spoken by a computerized voice." It's not quite telepathy, but it's pretty close."

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  2. With Careful Training? by nick_davison · · Score: -1, Troll

    With careful training a person can send nerve signals to their vocal cords without making a sound. These signals are picked up by the neckband and relayed wirelessly to a computer that converts them into words spoken by a computerized voice. Wow, that sounds an awful lot like my prior art:

    With careful training a person can send nerve signals to their fingers without making a sound. These signals are picked up by the "keyboard" and relayed wirelessly to a computer that converts them in to words spoken by a computerized voice.

    Really? That was all I had to do to invent telepathy a decade ago? I hereby bequeath my invention to the good of all mankind.