If you look at the information he provides about the audio tooth project, you'll see exactly what he's talking about...basically a miniature tooth vibrator and a bluetooth receiver. I'd quote it, but he put the text as a graphic...ack
The news.com story leads you to believe that these researchers have developed a tooth phone. This is in fact not the case. Instead, they have developed the technology to allow signals (not specifically cell phone) to be transimitted to your inner ear through bone resonance. This is much cooler because aside from the obvious security issues, it is much more versatile and could easily be "turned off." I still wonder about how they plan to power it though...
"Essentially the futuristic tooth would use wireless technology, such as 802.11 or bluetooth, to take signals from audio devices such as mobile phones, radios, stereos or computers, Auger [one of the two main researchers] explained to ElectricNews.Net. These signals would be changed into vibrations that would travel from the tooth, to the skull, eventually creating audible sound in the user's inner ear. No one but the user would be able to hear the sounds." A more accurate story from ElectricNews
Also of interest is this site. It is James Auger's personal site about his research. It was up before, but I was having some problems with it moments ago.
What?!?! Dominating the world of crappy operating systems isn't enough? Now M$ is going to try to work its way into our open protocols too. I seem to remember the internet being designed with the goal of being completely open and non-proprietary (*cough* completely against all of M$'s goals).
NASA should really market these to the public as a means to amassing the funds that the government doesn't give them. I agree with krez, the original submitter; I definately wouldn't mind having a robotic companion to do some of the chores.
Plus, holographic messages are really cool!;-)
"Help me O Great Marketing Guru, you're my only hope!"
If your lucky, the tech/knowhow will work its way back into your lives.
More likely that you will never here about it, at least for a great many years, or that it will have some horrendous limitation in comparison to the military version, like that in GPS systems.
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www.augerment.com is back up and running.
If you look at the information he provides about the audio tooth project, you'll see exactly what he's talking about...basically a miniature tooth vibrator and a bluetooth receiver. I'd quote it, but he put the text as a graphic...ack
The news.com story leads you to believe that these researchers have developed a tooth phone. This is in fact not the case. Instead, they have developed the technology to allow signals (not specifically cell phone) to be transimitted to your inner ear through bone resonance. This is much cooler because aside from the obvious security issues, it is much more versatile and could easily be "turned off." I still wonder about how they plan to power it though...
"Essentially the futuristic tooth would use wireless technology, such as 802.11 or bluetooth, to take signals from audio devices such as mobile phones, radios, stereos or computers, Auger [one of the two main researchers] explained to ElectricNews.Net. These signals would be changed into vibrations that would travel from the tooth, to the skull, eventually creating audible sound in the user's inner ear. No one but the user would be able to hear the sounds."
A more accurate story from ElectricNews
Also of interest is this site. It is James Auger's personal site about his research. It was up before, but I was having some problems with it moments ago.
What?!?! Dominating the world of crappy operating systems isn't enough? Now M$ is going to try to work its way into our open protocols too. I seem to remember the internet being designed with the goal of being completely open and non-proprietary (*cough* completely against all of M$'s goals).
Can we say subscription-ware to the extreme?
NASA should really market these to the public as a means to amassing the funds that the government doesn't give them. I agree with krez, the original submitter; I definately wouldn't mind having a robotic companion to do some of the chores.
;-)
Plus, holographic messages are really cool!
"Help me O Great Marketing Guru, you're my only hope!"
Amen brother!
If your lucky, the tech/knowhow will work its way back into your lives.
More likely that you will never here about it, at least for a great many years, or that it will have some horrendous limitation in comparison to the military version, like that in GPS systems.