Block your ears to hear better on Japan's new bone phone

AFP to My Yahoo! ^ | Wed Jan 21, 2:57 AM ET | AFP

[oyez]

How much longer will it be until people start having speaker coils surgically implanted into their skulls?

[Bacon Man]

Japanese telecom carriers, pioneers of Internet-capable and picture-snapping handsets, have now come up with the world's first mobile phone that enables users to listen to calls inside their heads

I've been trying to ignore the voices in my head!

[Bacon Man]

Voices in my head ping!

[Howie66]

I wonder if the inventor of this thing was inspired by the movie "The Jerk"?

[BlueLancer]

... Japan's new bone phone ...

Uh ... the bone phone?

That was an old joke back when I was in high school ...
...and they have the gall to call it that?

[RiflemanSharpe]

Don't give my boss any ideas.

[templar]

This just seems to be an adaptation of the old 'neurophone' device. I have a variety of one (grok box), they work. An interesting device, but originally intended to allow some deaf persons to hear. BTW, they don't develop your psychic powers or cure a variety of incurable diseases as is sometimes claimed. They may, however, aid in learning things somewhat more quickly (from tapes).

[Blue Screen of Death]

Put your sweet lips a little closer to the bone phone
Just pretend that we're together all alone
Tell the man to turn the juke box way down low
You can tell your friend there with you, he'll have to go...

[nobody_knows]

Mine rang all the time in High school too.......

[Allegra]

Voices in my head ping!

Oh, good grief, is that was that noise is?? I thought it was dogs talking to me again.

I guess that explains the "ringing" in my ears, too.

[4mycountry]

LOL!

[Seruzawa]

What a boneheaded idea.

[skeeter]

The big question is will the Bone Phone equal the popularity of NEC's LOVEGETY?

[Xenalyte]

Voices in my head ping!

Do they sound Jamaican?

[Question_Assumptions]

There actualy was a product called a Bone Fone or, or something like that, advertized in Popular Science or Popular Mechanics in the early 1980s. It was an AM/FM radio that you could hang around you neck with a speaker positioned on each shoulder. I had one. It worked pretty well, actually.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Do they sound Jamaican?

How did you know!!??

WHO SENT YOU!!!???

[Xenalyte]

The ninjas! You see nothing!

[Bacon Man]

Do they sound Jamaican?

Yea they do as a matter of fact. They're hard to understand. I think they're talking about old cutlery or butter knives or something. The word blunt keeps coming up.

[humblegunner]

The bone phone is old news.

Everyone knows the proper musical accompaniment to the skin-flute is the bone-a-phone.

Pee Wee Herman plays both, I understand. He's quite accomplished.