Nerve-tapping Neckband Allows 'Telepathic' Chat 205
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."
Frosty Poophole allows telepathic crap (Score:0, Funny)
Wireless, eh? (Score:5, Funny)
Telepathy (Score:5, Funny)
Ventriloquism (Score:5, Funny)
Granted, telling off color jokes with disturbing old man/child connotations doesn't sound quite as cool as reading minds and joining the X-Men. Still, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck without moving its bill, it's still a ventriloquist duck and not a telepath.
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this won't go over well (Score:3, Funny)
Mainly because no one wants to have phonesex with Stephen Hawking.
"hellll-o, you rrrrrrrrrr-eally ta-urrrrrrning meon rightnow."
And then as an answer to that, they'll come out with customized "human sounding" voices and you'll be wanting to shoot all your friends who always call using the American idol flavor of the week voice.
Blind dates will be ruined too... For all you know, that babe-alicious voice on the other end belongs to a 300lb 60 year old with a trechiotomy.
Re:this won't go over well (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ventriloquism (Score:4, Funny)
Keith and Orville [thebubbleburst.co.uk] are still touring?
Re:Ventriloquism (Score:1, Funny)
Re:The last thing the world needs... (Score:3, Funny)
What came out of the speaker (Score:4, Funny)
Telepath wanted.. (Score:-1, Funny)
Re:Ventriloquism (Score:5, Funny)
And I for one welcome our non-telepathic ventriloquist duck overlords.
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Re:Great technology (Score:3, Funny)
Enders Game (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ventriloquism (Score:3, Funny)
Thank you! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Ventriloquism (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Great technology (Score:4, Funny)
Re:this won't go over well (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Ventriloquism (Score:3, Funny)
So you are siding with the terrosts? Why do you hate America?