With cell phones getting smaller and humans looking for ways to use these smaller phones in stylish new ways. I present to you the cell fang.

It is a miniature cell phone that fits around your teeth and uses your bones conductance to emit sounds to your ears.

Now, people have a practical reason to wear fangs. You can place them in their protective case/headphone adapter for time when you need to eat.
-- sartep, Oct 25 2004

They Might Be Giants: I've got a fang http://www.tmbw.net...php/I've_Got_A_Fang
In case you're wondering what the subtitle is about. (It's stuck in my head, too, right next to "Bangs!" and "Ana Ng") [jutta, Oct 25 2004]

A tongue interface like this? http://www.halfbake.../idea/Tongue_20View
My older idea. [sartep, Oct 26 2004]

you can borrow this, if you want, to manipulate the buttons http://www.halfbake...ck_20tongue_20studs
[po, Oct 26 2004]

Will it be blue?
-- jutta, Oct 25 2004


I like it. They would have to start out huge, considering the size differnce between teeth and cell phones. But then, who wants a little fang? Who knows, maybe trends will reverse themselves and people will want tusks.
-- Worldgineer, Oct 25 2004


Hold on a second. Where do the buttons go?
-- Worldgineer, Oct 25 2004


//Will it be blue?//

Of course. :)

//Where do the buttons go?//

Many cell phones are voice controlled today.
-- sartep, Oct 25 2004


Someone has famously suggested a mobile phone tooth implant. While a whole lot less surgery is involved, this does not seem very different.
-- DrCurry, Oct 25 2004


One is a phone shaped in stylized prosthetics the other is an implant, you don't see a difference?
-- sartep, Oct 25 2004


They're both teeth, and use bone conduction to broadcast sound. Having said that, I must say I prefer yours.
-- DrCurry, Oct 25 2004


Mine could easily be a camera phone. Yes, they are teeth but it can also come in different styles and colors. I look at it more like a type of jewlery. Much like a watch.
-- sartep, Oct 25 2004


A camera phone fang? So *that's* what an eye tooth is!
-- Ichthus, Oct 25 2004


I'm not sure that it can't have buttons. You know how even small imperfections on one's teeth loom large? How you can't stop running your tongue over a chipped edge or a hole that has lost its filling? Maybe there could be a special interface, based on moving a very, very small joystick with one's tongue.
-- jutta, Oct 25 2004


Yup, Jutta, you got it. That's the exact song I was thinking of. Mink Car was a good cd.

For you, I shall make my next TMBG references more obscure, and hopefully just as relevant to the ideas as well.
-- sartep, Oct 26 2004


Great idea. Extra feature: it monitors dental health. When it detects a caries it could be programmed to automatically call your dentist and leave a pre-set message asking for an appointment.
-- Pericles, Oct 26 2004


It would certainly be useful for confidential calls.
-- UnaBubba, Oct 26 2004


Man, it's so loud in here. (clicks and scrolls down volume using tongue mouse) Better.
-- Worldgineer, Oct 26 2004


//it can also come in different styles and colors// You mean "Vampire," "Toothless Hockey Player," "Major Overbite," et cetera? Cool. I'll get the one with hot pink lipstick stains on the teeth.
-- Machiavelli, Oct 26 2004


It would be awful to hear eating, burping and sucking of teeth during a phone call.
-- Ling, Oct 26 2004



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