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Hearing Aid You Wear on Your Tooth

Posted February 02, 2010 8:07 AM

From Boing Boing:

Here's a new (unreleased) hearing aid that you wear over a back molar. It uses a wireless mic behind your ear to transmit sound to the tooth-unit, which then retransmits the sound through bone conduction -- without having to drill pins into your skull or surgically embed hardware, which is then hard to upgrade when the field advances.

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Re: Hearing Aid You Wear on Your Tooth

02/02/2010 11:11 AM

Similar to dolphins for echo location.

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