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To: limtex who wrote (16371)	10/13/1998 7:56:00 AM
From: DaveMG	Respond to of 152472

Limitex, Actually, I'm not supposed to reveal this top secret info in a public forum such as SI, with blabbermouths like MQurice in attendance, but BLUETOOTH is an industry initiative to implant miniature geraniums in between your molars at age 8, thereby providing hands free voice activated telephony, data and video linkup between your cerebellum and the ATM IP FRame relay backbone..SHHHHH..Don't tell anyone..Oh,almost forgot,in case you're suspicious, BLUETOOTH and BIGBROTHER are not cousins.... dave

To: limtex who wrote (16371)	10/13/1998 3:11:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 152472

Hi Limtex, sorry to say, but no, there aren't any Earcell [TM] production lines being prepared. But I did talk to the Phonak Managing Director here about 4 or 5 years ago and did write to Phonak's boss in Switzerland, who liked the idea, but they had their hands full with IPO and current projects. QUALCOMM is onto such things and has full understanding and has had for years of where the technology can lead. Klein Gilhousen for one has got plenty in his head for what can be done. The technology for sticking things in your ear and adapting them to individuals is hearing aid stuff, not consumer electronics. Sony came a gutser some years ago trying to move into hearing aids. Not as simple as it seemed. But people with hearing aids will be wanting integration of their systems with their cell phones and of course that is a logical outcome. I accept that it would have been premature before now to try it, since the cdmaOne market is only just getting going now. The needed technology such as silicon germanium chips and all the rest is just now arriving. Things always take longer than I'd like - an investment weakness I share with Bill Frezza, a good idea, but a decade too soon and the money can rot on the vine waiting. He has more foresight than me, so he lost his money. I can only look a little into the future so have done okay. Yes, I've wondered how people will handle talking to themselves. People in white coats will be getting call outs all over the place until the public gets used to it. Of course, the next stage is neural pickup from vocal nerve centres, so you won't actually talk, just think! You see the possibility - mental telepathy. There are already cochlear implants and even direct stimulation of hearing centres in the back of the brain in real people on a commercial basis in the case of cochlear implants. Experimental in people on the direct brain stimulation. There is a LONGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG way to go in cdma2000, lemmee tell you! See what's next - real television, right there in your head. Direct stimulation of your optic centre. Select the stereoscopic cameras at Le Lavendou beach in the south of France and ogle the babes from the comfort of your Beijing highrise apartment. I can tell you the Chinese bosses will be letting cdmaOne and cdma2000 into China when that service is available. More likely it would be a matter of putting on 3D glasses, as vision would be a bit hard to handle otherwise. But that would still be pretty good. Sony will produce those - they already have 2D ones in the shops right now. I was impressed with them. Mqurice PS: "...there aren't any Earcell [TM] production lines being prepared." Not that I know anyway, but nobody has told me that.