Future Cell Phones ...

[TheNoNamedOne]

... will be in your mouth. Actually, they will be silicone fillings in your tooth. Your jawbone will conduct through vibrations to your ear the sound signals coming from the filling. This has already been tested and it seems quite feasible and two way communication is no problem.

Your choice of keywords will activate different commands. Like, "Call Mary from work."

I think this is amazing because it is almost like man made telepethy with all communication taking place within our heads.

So, in the future when you go to get your new cell phone, rather than going to a Docomo or AU shop, you would go to your dentist who would probably contract with those companies. Now, add a computer screen to a contact lense that intereacts with the cell phone in your tooth, then we are talking about viewing the world like a cyborg -- e.g. The Terminator.

Would you mind being wired up this way? Do you think it actually will come about? I wouldn't mind, and I do think it will come about.

The technology (http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002june/pda20020624015096.htm) would be useful for everyone who uses a mobile phone, but examples of where the technology could be beneficial are team sports, where the manager needs to talk to the players throughout a game, and finance, where stockbrokers who need up-to-the-minute share information. Currently the device does not have a communications chip to allow it to become a fully-fledged phone, but Auger and Loizeau are quick to point out that current technology would make this a simple task.

[Tempestuous]

No way Jose!

There is enough supposed EMF related issues from current cellphones, why would I want to deliberately insert them INTO my body?

:)

[dk]

I imagine those things would be a pain in the butt when you've got a toothache.

I doubt I'd go for one of these. I hate my phone as it is. At least now I can hide it in my drawer when I don't feel like looking at it.

[Boost]

No way dude, that just seems like it is crossing the line. What line, I don't know but it is way over it! There is just something that creeps me out about the idea of an electronic device being implanted in my tooth. What's next, the microchip used on pets now used on people? Hey, wait a minuet...:)

[TheNoNamedOne]

Those of you railing against this may be doing so to no avail. If enough consumer demand calls for it, then manufacturers, rather than keeping two kinds of cell phones available to the market, will most probably opt to go with the newer one and drop the other. The next generation and what appeals to them always pushes out their fathers' trends.

In 50 years, barring any world set-back, I would venture to say that there will no longer be land lines used for telephones. Everyone, or family, will use a cell phone, but if someone had asked your grandmother 50 years ago, "Would you want a phone you could carry around with you in your pocket?" she may have answered, "No way. When I am out of the house I don't want to be disturbed."

The only thing that seems consistant is for some in each generation to resist the thing that they can see on the horizon.

Man made telepathy through implants is that thing on the horizon. It will be a part of our technological evolution.

[Boost]

but if someone had asked your grandmother 50 years ago, "Would you want a phone you could carry around with you in your pocket?" she may have answered, "No way. When I am out of the house I don't want to be disturbed."


I still feel that way today :) I am not trying to resist change in technology, but going from a hand held to an implanted object is a pretty major leap. Plus, can you imagine the cost when you want to upgrade you cell tooth!?

[Mad Hatter]

is it not freaky enough when you walk up to someone or beside someone and they look and sound like they are talking to them selves?


But I guess that it would give a new meaning to "Bluetooth"

[TheNoNamedOne]

But just think, in the not too distant future, our bodies will be quite wired -- or at least the younger generation willing to try on and adopt newer and newer gadgets will be.

I am certain we will have tooth phones. After that, probably transparent computer screens on contact lenses connected to a future internet -- whatever that incarnation will be.

Tooth phones would suck for those trying to do away with a corrupt government by overthrowing it, because if toothphones are the only phones available, then tracking through transmission poles and satelites by the government will be quite easy. Future insurgents will have to stay unwired. But, an unwired person is automatically suspect. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. The Borg and Matrix are coming.

Blue pill, or red pill?

[dk]

Blue pill.

What happens when you want an upgrade. And how will you be able to tell the difference from somebody talking on the phone and some lunatic talking to himself.

Those of you railing against this may be doing so to no avail. If enough consumer demand calls for it, then manufacturers, rather than keeping two kinds of cell phones available to the market, will most probably opt to go with the newer one and drop the other.
This is a long time off, even if these ever do come into production. It's going to take quite a few generations to get used to such an intrusive technology. I highly doubt there will be an all-or-nothing. How many other intrusive technologies used in everyday life have taken an all-or-nothing stance on sales?
And what happens if you have a toothache? What happens if someone punches you in the face?

I just don't see these being implanted in teeth.

After that, probably transparent computer screens on contact lenses connected to a future internet -- whatever that incarnation will be.
Why after? These are two separate technologies and will probably, if ever, come into existance simultaniously. One isn't required for the other.

[Tempestuous]

So what are those with dentures gonna do? Have no phone? Many I know who wear dentures only do so when leaving the house....so that means no portable tooth phones for them.

As for it being the up and coming thing- there are some ideas that never make it off the ground. "Make it and they will buy it" is not always the way it is.

[dk]

Temp, nobody will have bad teeth in the future. Duh. :P

These wouldn't even necessarily need to be installed in the mouth. You could probably install it behind the ear and it'd work just the same. Which might be better.

If I can ignore my phone as I do now, I MIGHT be willing to try one of the behind the ear models, but I'm not keen on the tooth idea. Like I said, what happens if your tooth gets knocked out or rattled severely from getting punched in the face? And what happens when you need an upgrade? With one product, you have to come in for surgery. With the other, you have to meet a dentist.

I have no doubt that biotechnology will play a huge part in the future. But there are good ideas, and there are better ideas. I think the behind the ear idea is better.

[Tempestuous]

Can you imagine griping about your Mother in law and it voice recognizes and CALLS while you are ranting. I just see many hairy situations arising from an automatic dial phone system.

I wasn't thinking far off, distant future, I was thinkin more along the lines of 5-10 yrs. I guess I didn't think far enough in advance.

[dk]

I'm sure the auto-dial will be keyword triggered. For instance, its voice recognition software would be built to take in a phrase like:

Me: Phone, call mother
Phone: Two records found: Mother-(wife's family name), Mother-(my family name). Please specify which mother.
Me: Mother-(my family name)
*Dialing sound, etc*

or

Me: Phone, dial 098-983-0123
*Dialing sound, etc*

The phones could also have cool built in services like current cellphones have such as storing information about a certain person in your address book.

Me: Phone, describe Allen J.
Phone: *Gives information of full name, dob, and any other information you have chosen to store about the person*

[Mad Hatter]

I think that the only way that I would even consider this is if the conversation was all in my head.... I mean I wouldn't want to rest of the world hearing my conversations.

I wonder if these things are be as trackable as cell phones? If that's the case... I really don't want one.:mad:

[Tempestuous]

I wonder if these things are be as trackable as cell phones? If that's the case... I really don't want one.:mad:


Honestly I would wager they would be almost identical to a typical GSP system