Tired of shouting into your mobile phone Dom Joly-style at busy railway stations?
Here’s a handy solution to the problem… get a microphone tattooed on to your throat.
Such a stamp could help cut out background noise, according to Motorola, which has applied to patent the idea and claims it could also be used as a lie detector.
‘A user speaking falsehoods may exhibit different galvanic skin response than a truth-telling
individual,’ the Google-owned company suggests.
The ‘electronic tattoo’ device would have a transceiver embedded in it to enable wireless communication, according to the application to the US Patent and Trademark Office.
It would be charged with a power supply that could run from a battery or solar power.
‘Mobile communication devices are often operated in noisy environments,’ Motorola said.
‘Communication can be improved and enhanced with a method and system for reducing the acoustic noise in such environments.’
It is unclear how close Motorola is to marketing the device – named as ‘electronic tattoo 110′ – or whether its two practical applications would be kept separate.
But the prospect of a phone mic that doubles as a lie detector has at least one observer worried.
Rik Myslewski wrote in the Register: ‘If I want to phone my boss to say I’m home sick with the flu when I’m actually kicking back with a cheap hard-boiled detective novel and a pint or two, I don’t want my phone ratting on me.’
Anxious to cover all the bases to prevent its idea being stolen, Motorola adds in its application that the device ‘can also be applied to an animal’.
So when your dog calls you from a crowded nightclub shouting ‘honest, it wasn’t me who ate the sausages,’ you’ll be able to hear him clear as a bell and check to see if he’s lying…
Source: Mirror
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