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axxxr
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If you remember a while back i fell for a april fools bluetooth tooth phone.Well it seems like now that now we have the real deal.Developed by students at the Royal College Of Art, this "molar mobile" is so tiny it can be implanted in a tooth. The device transmits sound to your ear by sending vibrations along the jawbone and, while it is currently just a concept, the technology behind it is proven.
The phone could be implanted in football players' teeth, so a manager could relay instructions from the sidelines, without giving away his plans to the opposition.
BBC Article:
Soon you could be swapping your mobile phone for a molar phone.
Royal College of Art students in London have developed a phone that fits inside a tooth.
The concept device picks up signals with a radio receiver and uses a tiny vibrating plate to convey them as sound along the jawbone to a person's ear.
The designers said the mini-molar phone could be implanted in a tooth during routine dental surgery.
The prototype phone is the work of graduates James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau and forms part of the Royal College of Art's annual summer exhibition.
Known as The Show, this exhibition shows off the best ideas of the current crop of RCA designers and students.
Bits and bites
Currently, the tooth phone is only a mock-up and lacks the communications chip to actually turn it into a functioning device.
Mr Auger said the technology to turn it into a working device already existed and it would be a simple matter to build the relevant chips into the gadget.
The designers speculate that, if the tooth phone becomes a working device, it could be used by stock traders to receive up-to-the-moment information about share prices or to help football managers communicate quickly with players during key matches.
However, the existing design is only supposed to help stimulate debate about future wearable computing devices and to help explore the social and cultural ramifications of in-body technology.
The tooth phone is on show at the Science Museum in London from the 21 June to November.
Development of the device was funded by the National Endowment for Science, Technology & the Arts as part of a collaboration between the Science Museum and the Royal College of Art.
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k700nut
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Let's hope nokia don't manufacture these devices,or people wont have any teeth left...due to regular servicing. :-D
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themarques
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@k700nut Thats funny..
But they do that already only with a slightly different concept in Japan. The dentist pipes music down your teeth so instead of hearing the drill taking out the last remaining good teeth you can tune into a selection of music of your choice. |
Gigs
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Now thats cool.. the music idea that is.
Hmm ick, already a "great" experience visiting the destist.. Unless when you buy one it has some "home fitting kit" 
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k4m!k4ze
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how bout if the teeth shout at the dentist when he's operating ? 
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wapchimp
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where do you put the charger 
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axxxr
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I wonder what ever happened to this concept?
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Rocky B.
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*14 months on*
I'm sure it's still floating around out there somewhere Axxxr. Somewhere ...
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axxxr
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14 months on we should have had one implanted in our mouths by now! 
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Posted: 2004-11-15 18:31
