I guess it's my turn to add to the confusion. The bone conduction headphones that I saw rested on the hard bony pad behind your ears and the sound was transmitted through your skull to your ears. The Fidelity was not good nor was the channel separation.
The bone phone is entirely different. It was a small earphone type unit that plugged into your ear and picked up the sound of your voice transmitted by your skull. It also was an earphone, with some exotic canceling circuitry that limited feedback. It could be effectively used as a telephone headset, and had the distinctive advantage of not picking up sounds in the room. However, if you scratched your head or clicked your teeth, the other party could hear that clearly. The audio fidelity of the microphone component was pretty muddy, for obvious reasons. Perhaps those of us with hard heads or thick skulls could make better use of this phone. Geoff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brent Harding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 7:18 PM Subject: Re: Bone conduction headphones. Wow, that seems like something that can't possibly work any better than a normal radio held at a similar distance, can it? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Harmon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 2:31 PM Subject: Re: Bone conduction headphones. > Hi Anders, > > I used something like that about 25 years ago. It was a radio that slung > over your shoulders and the sounds went through your bones so you could > hear > it. Not sure how much the technology has changed since then but the radio > called the "bone phone" did work pretty well. > > Rick > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anders Holmberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 3:26 PM > Subject: Bone conduction headphones. > > > Hello! > Has anyone tried bone-conduction headphones. > I just heard about them and it seems as an intresting thech thing. > /Anders. > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
