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Re: alternate hearing system

On Fri, 17 Apr 1998 20:21:31 +0000,   wrote:

>Reading the page on this device, I was a little suprised at the boast 
>the this device was discovered in 1996 by folks at UV. That being 
>said because I was using just such a device several years erilier, 
>and certainly not in a labratory. The US Army has a set of 
>headphones/mike that are known (by those that know them) as "bone 
>phones" They are vibrating headphones. No outward sound. But touch 
>them to any bone in your head, you hear crystal clear....even at 
>intense 'volumes" and in very loud environments. And they dont block 
>or interfere with the audio waves of the rest of the world. 
>Interestingly e-nuff, many people do not need to touch the device to 
>their head. I can, for instance, touch it to my elbo and hear the 
>'sound' as clear as if it were on my head. I know of a select few 
>people who can placwe the object on their knee, even, and still hear 
>the sound just as clear. But most folks need to place it on their 
>head. The devices listed for about $900 ea to the army (only those 
>that ESSENTIALLY needed to hear in aweful enviroments. And as a 
>benifit, you CANT blow out your eardrums out. I have never tyied to 
>get some of my own, I dont care much for intrutuions into my mind. 
>Great device, though. Thuely awesome.

Does anyone have any more info on these?  I checked

http://www.flantech.com/neuropho.htm

but I don't think these are the same thing.  Part of it reads like a cross between a late nite
infomercial and a Tom Swift book ("at the tender age of 13, our hero invented...").  Going back to
the home page, there are offers for healing crystals and the like.

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