RE: OT: tooth implant

["Amar Nagi" <amar@xxxxxxx>]

> 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.
>
>  <<...OLE_Obj...>>
> 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. 
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>

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