[mwallace573]

Imagine these things taking over the iBud. Instead of hearing other peoples music turned up way too loud, you will just see their head vibrating rapidly.

On a serious note, I guess these would be good for people with severe hearing loss or tinnitus.

 

[Fitz]

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Originally Posted by CooLBieRe /img/forum/go_quote.gif i would transfer "Playboy " instead

Yeah, I'm sure if the technology was invented everybody would just use it to transmit naughty-naughties and American Idol to their head.

 

[Tyll Hertsens]

I didn't hear the ones you pointed to, but I did hear a pair of bone conduction cans at CES called the Audio Bone. Looks like around $150.

It's not gonna win any medals around hear, but I sounded a lot better than I expected; you could certainly listen to music with it with a modicum of pleasure. But the guy said that there are some people who are deaf in the eardrum/middle ear area that can actually use these to listen to music. I though it was pretty cool.

 

[Mrvile]

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Originally Posted by Tyll Hertsens /img/forum/go_quote.gif But the guy said that there are some people who are deaf in the eardrum/middle ear area that can actually use these to listen to music. I though it was pretty cool.

Yeah I wouldn't really expect this technology to transcend into high-fidelitydom, but it's one of those innovations that allow for miracles to happen. If I were deaf I'd lay down all the money I had to be able to hear music again.

 

[Davesrose]

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Originally Posted by Mrvile /img/forum/go_quote.gif Yeah I wouldn't really expect this technology to transcend into high-fidelitydom, but it's one of those innovations that allow for miracles to happen. If I were deaf I'd lay down all the money I had to be able to hear music again.

Problem is it's limited to the type of deafness though. If you have hearing loss due to a middle ear injury, then these probably will really work well. If it's inner ear, they won't do anything. I wonder how they are with isolation: though it might seem weird to hear someone else's music via their skull

If you really crank up the music, maybe you'd also get vertigo (since your vestibules could go haywire too from all the vibration)

 

[Vicomte]

Do people really hear their own voices mostly through bone conduction? I suppose that explains a lot.

 

[Mrvile]

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Originally Posted by Vicomte /img/forum/go_quote.gif Do people really hear their own voices mostly through bone conduction? I suppose that explains a lot.

If that's the case, then the music will probably also sound very different...

 

[uraflit]

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Originally Posted by Mrvile /img/forum/go_quote.gif If that's the case, then the music will probably also sound very different...

i'm sure they designed it so that the music sounds like "headphones" and not distorted like hearing your own voice... i'm always surprised when i hear my own voice in recordings

 

[jules650]

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Originally Posted by Vicomte /img/forum/go_quote.gif Do people really hear their own voices mostly through bone conduction? I suppose that explains a lot.

That's why a recording of your voice will sound so different to you, yet that's what everyone else hears when you talk.

I've confused myself with that sentence.

 

[Vicomte]

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Originally Posted by jules650 /img/forum/go_quote.gif That's why a recording of your voice will sound so different to you, yet that's what everyone else hears when you talk. I've confused myself with that sentence.

My understanding of the universe has just increased slightly. Another one bites the dust.

Winky!