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reddingofish
08/06/09

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It won't be long before we can get jacks implanted behind our ears.
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Chris Radford
08/06/09

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The hair cells that transduce sound into an electrochemical signal respond to mechanical vibration, no matter where a sound originates.
The sound doesn't have to come via the middle ear ossicles (tiny bones), indeed it can pass through the skull bones that surround the inner ear.That's how bone conduction hearing aids (suitable for those born without ear canals, and those with hearing losses and chronic middle/outer ear infection/effusion) work.
The disadvantage of these technologies is that the skull bones provide next to no attenuation for most frequencies, so stereo separation is likely to suffer somewhat.
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TheSonOfKrypton
08/06/09

@Chris Radford: Organ of Corti FTW!
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
08/05/09

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At least these will go deeper than the Pentax just reviewed.
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the_amazing_doug
08/05/09

@Lite: hey now, that kind of commenting belongs on fleshbot.
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