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- From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: MY FANTASTY HEARING AID COMPANY
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 04:33:02 GMT
- Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
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- Message-ID: <1ech1uINN5ts@chnews.intel.com>
- References: <1992Nov17.050331.8219@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov17.050331.8219@ultb.isc.rit.edu> adw3345@ultb.rit.edu () writes:
- [...fuhgedabautit...]
-
- It's been done.
-
- There is now (this is absolutely true, in the Dave
- Barrian sense of the pharase) a form of hearing
- device which is hidden (almost) entirely within your ear.
-
- A magnetic disc encased in silicone potting is wedged
- against your (ostensibly punctured) eardrum. It is driven
- by magnetic fields emitted by a coil of wire that you wear
- as an innocuous necklace--perhaps under your shirt, close
- to St. Christopher?
-
- The necklace contains audio transducers and a radio
- receiver. It's been used in such diverse modes as
- clandestine message-passing (you're in a meeting and
- you--and only you--hear "<*BEEP*>, Mr. Flaum, your wife
- is on line six and I'm horny as a blowfish"), cellular
- paging, and conscientious audiophilism (one man claims
- to leave his necklace under his pillow and tuned to
- a local radio station, thus letting his wife sleep
- in silence).
-
- --Blair
- "You can leave
- the ear-couteur
- to the homos."
-