The Register is reporting that Sanyo plans to follow through with their new mobile phone, and expects to be shipping it by months end.
“Japanese electronics giant Sanyo has developed a truly silent mobile phone. Instead of a loudspeaker, the handset, the TS41, uses the user’s own skull to transmit the incoming call.
Using bone to conduct sound waves isn’t new, but this is the first time we’ve heard the technique being used for a mobile phone. Sanyo claims it’s a world’s first.
When you hold the handset against your cheekbone, it vibrates and the vibrations are transmitted through your skull to the bones in your inner ear. They vibrate in turn, just as if they were under the influence of a sound wave and send signals into the brain accordingly. “
