Telepathy in any form has long seemed confined to science fiction books and movies. People with disabilities and problems speaking due accident or other issues seemed condemned to a life of silence, restricted to the written word, typing and TDD terminals. Thanks to a new device, that is all about to change. The first voiceless phone call has now been made.How does it work? The user who wishes to make a voiceless call wears a neckband. The neckband is designed to pick up nerve impulses from the brain to the vocal cords. The neckband wearer basically learns to talk without wound by sending the signals but not moving their lips or making noise. Once they have mastered that, the neckband will pick up the signals and translate them into speech for the listener.
The technology is not perfected by any means, but it is a huge step in the right direction. It has applications not only for the medical sector but for the private sector as well. Think of how blissful it would be if you could sit in a movie without some yob talking on their cell phone three rows back? Once this technology becomes usable, that could happen.
In the prototype, you can still see some serious delays in the relay process. This outlines the fact that the technology still has a long way to go to be commercially viable. Even so, this is a major communication breakthrough along the lines of Bell and Watson making the first telephone call.
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