( Image from Flickr.com – ‘Infidelity’)
These would be so darn handy to have.
Just think how eerie it would be, yet also how peaceful – people all around having conversations on their mobile phones, but without uttering a sound.
Thanks to some military research, this social nirvana just might come true. DARPA, the US Department of Defense’s research agency, is working on a project known as Advanced Speech Encoding, aimed at replacing microphones with non-acoustic sensors that detect speech via the speaker’s nerve and muscle activity, rather than sound itself.
Non-acoustic sensors detect speech without sound
(Thank you agent Greg for this handy bit of news)