10/4/2005

TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo’s wearable handset device ‘Yubi-Wa’ at the CEATEC JAPAN 2005, a technology trade exhibition ….the world’s first wearable handset, features a bone conduction transceiver, and is used by inserting a finger with the device into the earhole….

It weird but I’ve reported on this NTT stick-you-finger-in-your-ear phone before…. but it fails to show up in any of my databases.
As I said before, bone-conduction phones have been around for more than 40 years… used to use in my grandfather’s noisy tool-and-die shop in 1979. Calling this the “the world’s first wearable handset” is strange—-maybe they meant, ‘the world’s first wireless self-contained cellphone.” Then again maybe the fucktards in NTT are full of it, yet again.