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'Cone of Silence' Keeps Conversations Secret

Posted May 11, 2009 7:35 AM

From New Scientist - Online News:

In Get Smart, the 1960s TV spy comedy, secret agents wanting a private conversation would deploy the "cone of silence", a clear plastic contraption lowered over the agents' heads. It never worked - they couldn't hear each other, while eavesdroppers could pick up every word. Now a modern cone of silence that we are assured will work is being patented by engineers Joe Paradiso and Yasuhiro Ono of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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05/11/2009 9:30 PM

just as stupidly funny as it was.

stupid is the operative word.

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