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from the puns-about-Bluetooth-or-something dept.
Dubbed the Molar Mic, it's a small device that clips to your back teeth. The device is both microphone and "speaker," allowing the wearer to transmit without any conspicuous external microphone and receive with no visible headset or earpiece. Incoming sound is transmitted through the wearer's bone matter in the jaw and skull to the auditory nerves; outgoing sound is sent to a radio transmitter on the neck, and sent to another radio unit that can be concealed on the operator. From there, the signal can be sent anywhere.
The Molar Mic connects to its transmitter via near-field magnetic induction. It's similar to Bluetooth, encryptable, but more difficult to detect and able to pass through water.
Sonitus received early funding from In-Q-Tel, the nonprofit investment arm of the CIA, to develop the concept. Hadrovic declined to say whether CIA operatives had used the device in intelligence gathering. But the Molar Mic has seen the dust of Afghanistan and even played a role in rescue operations in the United States.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Osamabobama on Wednesday September 12 2018, @10:16PM
Do you want them to appear to be less crazy, by giving them a plausible reason to be talking without anyone apparently listening? Or do you want their unfounded paranoia of having the government listening to them from a device inside their head to have an actual foundation?
Either way, they would seem less crazy.
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