http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,39447,00.html
NTT DoCoMo plans to release a cellular phone that would dramatically change the way callers reach out and touch someone.
NTT DoCoMo's Media Computing Lab is currently developing a wearable wireless phone that consists only of a wristband. The phone, called the "Whisper," because it vibrates rather than rings, contains a tiny microphone the wearer speaks into.
The wristband also contains a device that converts voice into vibrations that travel through the hand, the finger and into the ear canal.
To answer incoming calls, the wearer taps the index finger and thumb -- that's it -- and then sticks a finger in one ear to hear the person on the other line.
"You're going to have things that make mobile communication more easy," Ericsson spokesman Rob Elston said. "How that will shake out in detail, I hesitate to guess at that."
The Japanese telecom giant, who did not respond to emails asking for comment, hopes to release the device in 2005.
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