{"id":1981,"date":"2004-01-21T20:59:09","date_gmt":"2004-01-22T00:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/01\/21\/bone-phone-bypasses-eardrums\/"},"modified":"2004-01-21T20:59:09","modified_gmt":"2004-01-22T00:59:09","slug":"bone-phone-bypasses-eardrums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/21\/bone-phone-bypasses-eardrums\/","title":{"rendered":"Bone Phone Bypasses Eardrums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2373'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"537\">\n<p>\n        <em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/bonefone.jpg\" width=\"268\" height=\"384\" align=\"left\">No,<br \/>\n        it doesn&#8217;t read your mind, just bypasses the eardrums by transfering the<br \/>\n        call through bone vibrations!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Japanese telecom carriers,<br \/>\n        pioneers of internet-capable and picture-snapping<br \/>\n        handsets,<br \/>\n        have now come up with the world&#8217;s first mobile phone that<br \/>\n          enables users to listen to calls inside their heads &#8211; by conducting<br \/>\n          sound through bone.<\/p>\n<p>        The TS41 handset, manufactured by electronics firm Sanyo, was put on<br \/>\n          sale by the Tu-Ka mobile phone group this month, drawing healthy demand<br \/>\n          from<br \/>\n      customers who want to hear calls better in busy streets and other noisy<br \/>\n      places.<\/p>\n<p>      The new phone is equipped with a &quot;Sonic Speaker&quot; which transmits<br \/>\n      sounds through vibrations that move from the skull to the cochlea in the<br \/>\n      inner ear, instead of relying on the usual method of sound hitting the<br \/>\n      outer eardrum.<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2004\/01\/21\/1074360813226.html%20%20\">smh.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, it doesn&#8217;t read your mind, just bypasses the eardrums by transfering the call through bone vibrations! Japanese telecom carriers, pioneers of internet-capable and picture-snapping handsets, have now come up with the world&#8217;s first mobile phone that enables users to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/21\/bone-phone-bypasses-eardrums\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}