# "Excuse me, but your tooth is ringing" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 21, 2002, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-your-tooth-is-ringing/115259 "2002-06-21T13:07:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2002, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-your-tooth-is-ringing/115259/1 "2002-06-21T13:07:30Z")
This is just plain weirrrrd: :eek: > [@](#): > > **‘TOOTH PHONE’ INVENTION WILL ALLOW YOU TO CALL A HEAD** > > June 21, 2002 – In the future, the voices you hear in your head will actually be there. > The reason: two students at the Royal College of Art in London have designed a phone that fits inside a tooth. > > The device picks up signals from a radio receiver and uses a tiny vibrating plate to convey them as sound along the jawbone to the ear. > > The designers, James Auger and Jimmy Loiseau, said the phone could be implanted in a tooth during routine dental surgery. > > At present, the tooth phone is only a model and lacks the communications chip to turn it into a functioning device. > > But Auger said the technology to turn it into a working phone already exists and it would be a simple matter to build the relevant chips for the gadget. > > He suggested that if the tooth phone is developed, it could be used to receive up-to-the-minute information about stock prices and help coaches communicate with players on the field. I wonder if it’ll have features like ‘tooth waiting’ and ‘tooth forwarding.’ 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2002, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-your-tooth-is-ringing/115259/2 "2002-06-21T13:24:46Z")
I know there’s a \*69 joke in here somewhere but for the life of my I can’t think of one. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2002, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-your-tooth-is-ringing/115259/3 "2002-06-21T13:31:20Z")
Brush your teeth or you’ll get bad reception. what about caller ID :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2002, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-your-tooth-is-ringing/115259/4 "2002-06-21T14:06:36Z")
Will hiccupping cause inadvertant redialing? ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2002, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-your-tooth-is-ringing/115259/5 "2002-06-21T15:32:17Z")
This sounded like such a cool idea to me, and then I realized that it’d probably **hurt** like the dickens each time your tooth rang/vibrated. Know that feeling you get when you bite into ice cream? Yowza! ---
**Author:** ![JBERGES](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed8c4c/32.png) [@JBERGES](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBERGES)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2002, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-your-tooth-is-ringing/115259/6 "2002-06-21T17:40:29Z")
Yeah, and then all the big shots will get a second line put in… _“Hey, Frank, hold on a sec will you? I got John on hold in my colon." **click click** _ ---
**Author:** ![Spritle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Spritle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spritle)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2002, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excuse-me-but-your-tooth-is-ringing/115259/7 "2002-06-21T18:59:15Z")
reminds me of the joke… There were three ladies in the sauna at the health club. As they were relaxing, one woman’s arm began to buzz. She pushed on her forearm and the buzzing stopped. She explained that she had a pager microchip implanted in her arm. Shortly thereafter, there was a ringing and the second lady put her hand to her ear and began talking. She explained that she had a microchip phone implanted in her palm. The third lady excused herself and went to the lady’s room. Upon her return to the sauna, the first two ladies noticed that she inadvertantly had a sheet of toilet paper stuck between her butt cheeks. “Dear,” one of them stated, “it looks like you’re receiving a fax.”