Put your mobile where your mouth is [Cell phones in teeth?]

BBC On Line ^ | 20 June, 2002 | Unsigned

[aculeus]

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.

[Cachelot]

And I suppose this wonder will be impossible to turn off, potentially interfere with all kinds of electronics including computers controlling moving equipment like airplanes, cars and trains, and be usable to pinpoint your location down to two millimeters in realtime?

No thanks.

[dighton]

Believe it or not, implant guinea pigs walk among us........;-)

Hey Stupid!

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[Orual]

"Bluetooth, the new technology named after the 10th Century Danish King Harold Blatand, translated, "Bluetooth", is a hot topic among wireless developers.

Code-named Blue Tooth for the king who unified Denmark, the companies have created a single synchronization protocol to address end-user problems arising from the proliferation of various mobile devices -- including smart phones, smart pagers, handheld PCs, and notebooks -- that need to keep data consistent from one device to another. One story has it that the King's teeth were permanently stained from eating blueberries and another story tells that he suffered from chronic disfiguring tooth problems. Besides his oral troubles, Blue Tooth was known for uniting various warring tribes into a single, powerful Viking nation.

[hellinahandcart]

"Hey, Stupid!" is a classic.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Some British dentists want to put a phone in a tooth?!

I didn't know that the Brithsh had dentists!

[general_re]

I'll stick to the tried-and-true method, thanks.