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This phone is designed to be as close to invisible as possible. Here's the details.
The microphone is a fake back tooth, and the headphones are (until i can come up with something more effectively hidden) small skin-coloured buds that slot into the ear. For neatness' sake, they may also act as anti-noise
devices. Many commands are issued to the phone by speaking, such as 'call Chris' - that is already baked.
The handset is actually more like a glove. It's utterly transparent, clings to the skin and has pores to allow sweat and air to pass through, so you almost can't tell you're wearing it. Rather than being pressure sensitive, it detects tension and compression. Ie, it detects the shape and movement of your hand.
You control the phone with gestures: to make a call, you might stick out your thumb and little finger in a 'phone' shape. To hang up, you move your hand in a horizontal slice movement, like a 'kill this' signal.
If you didn't want to dictate, then you would also use gestures to enter numbers and information, and to type text messages. The Skin Phone can be configured to recognise your favourite dialect of sign language, or it would come with a non-deaf-person's sign language for standard text entry (kind of like 'graffiti' input on PDAs).
Feedback on all of these would be spoken to you.
Gleam in Your Smile
http://www.halfbake...20in_20Your_20Smile some discussion of power sources for tooth-mounted devices here [krelnik, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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Blootoof requires a lot of power and a big antenna, so i suspect that you'd also have a hidden 'collar' attachment as a bridge between the very-short-range comms for the three head-pieces. |
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I'd give my back teeth for something like this. |
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How is the microphone in the tooth powered? |
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The toothset can be powered by galvanic cell formed between a foil contact and the nearest filling. |
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There was some discussion on how to get power to a tooth over in "Gleam in Your Smile", see link. |
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