Jerome - No hoax, Charles Jorgensen of NASA has been work on subvocalization technology for several years: Even when reading or speaking to oneself with or without actual lip or facial movement, biological signals arise. While using the NASA subvocal system, a person thinks of a phrase and talks to himself so quietly that it can't be heard; despite that, the tongue and vocal cords receive speech signals from the brain that are detected and analyzed using a small electrode placed on the throat - http://thefutureofthings.com/articles.php?itemId=28/58/
Also, with regard to the retro design, the speech-to-text/text-to-speech functionality of the concept inspired us to the throwback design of the old Speak & Spell - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_&_Spell_(game) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=34963 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
