NTT DoCoMo continue research into sticking fingers in ears at the cutting edge of telecoms.
Japanese cellular provider NTT DoCoMo, pioneers of advanced phone features, have managed to create a handset - if one can call it that - to redefine the whole telephonic paradigm.
The FingerWhisper comes close to replicating the instinctive gesture for 'call me': little finger at the lips, thumb up to the ear. With the DoCoMo design, the user wears a wristwatch which contains the phone and its microphone.
The really interesting bit is that the voice of the caller is transmitted through bone induction by the wristband, and carried to the bones of the ear by the wearer's finger. Stick finger in ear, hear voice in head.
This is a big step in reducing the size of the handset while not compromising voice quality. It also claims to solve issues of hearing callers in noisy environments by completely bypassing the ambient environment, and also removes the need for buttons, replacing them with a morse code-like system of tapping for the execution of phone functions.
The only issue, of course, is how to pass a call over to a friend.
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