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RE: OT: tooth implant


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  • Subject: RE: OT: tooth implant
  • From: "Amar Nagi" <amar@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:34:25 +0100
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> British engineers say they have invented a revolutionary tooth implant
> that works like a mobile phone and would not be out of place in a James
> Bond spy movie.
> The "tooth phone" consists of a tiny vibrator and a radio wave receiver
> implanted into a tooth during routine dental surgery. The phone was
> designed by James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau.
> The implant does not yet have its own microchip installed, but Auger says
> the technology is tried and tested, and a fully functional phone could be
> put together in no time at all.
> "With the current size of microchips, this is feasible. They are now small
> enough to implant in the tooth," he said Tuesday.
> Sound, which comes into the tooth as a digital radio signal, is
> transferred to the inner ear by bone resonance, meaning information can be
> received anywhere and at any time--and nobody else can listen in.
>
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> The invention raises the prospects of financial traders receiving the
> latest stock market bulletins while at the cinema and politicians tuning
> in to secret briefings from advisers while being quizzed by opponents.
> Despite its similarity to high-tech gadgets dreamed up by Bond's faithful
> "Q" sidekick, the inventors believe the gizmo could become the first in a
> whole suite of nonmedical devices implanted into the human body.
> Story Copyright © 2001 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
> <<...OLE_Obj...>>
>


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