The US Military Has Developed a Tooth Microphone That's So Stealth It's a Little Unnerving
A lot of military technology manages to be both awe-inspiring and vaguely terrifying, and so it is with the Molar Mic – this little microphone and speaker combination actually clips on to the wearer's back teeth. It's completely wireless and invisible to anyone else.
Despite its rather precarious position, the little device can pick up the speech of the wearer without any visible interface, and relay sound back through bone-conducting technology through the teeth and skull to the inner ear.
It is, apparently perfectly possible to hold a normal phone call conversation with this, though we haven't tried it ourselves.
And the potential uses for soldiers are many and varied: the Molar Mic allows for hands-free communication while driving, while hanging from the side of a mountain, while advancing through the jungle, while wearing a face mask, and even while underwater.
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