Japanese company uses cartilage conduction for smartphones to let you hear who’s talking in noisy environments
By Florin on 01 May 12Rohm Co Ltd, an electronic components maker based in Japan, hopes to change the way we hear people when talking on a mobile phone.
The company has developed a new technology that’s based on “cartilage conduction.” According to Nikkei, this lets you clearly hear someone during a call just by softly touching the phone to your ear. Unlike other bone conduction technologies, cartilage conduction transmits sounds “while blocking external noise.”
Reportedly, Rohm made a chip using this technology, which includes a power supply circuit, a voice processing circuit, and an amplifier. The company intends to use the new product in smartphones first, and wants to promote it to handset makers as a solution for clear conversations in noisy environments.
There already is a prototype iPhone case which uses cartilage conduction (pictured above). The case will be demoed by Rohm from May 10 to May 12 in Japan. It remains to be seen if we’ll be able to enjoy this new technology only by buying an external case or not (some major handset maker might want to include it in its phones by default – assuming that’s possible).
If you liked the post, you might find these interesting too:
- Panasonic plans an Android phone for outside Japan
- Motorola Endeavor HX1 Bluetooth headset with bone conduction technology announced
- NEC to re-launch phones outside Japan, probably in Europe
- Samsung, LG may release LTE phones in 2010
- Samsung to ditch Symbian, launch fewer Windows Mobile phones?
-
Anonymous
-
http://www.widediary.com/ Alanc230
« Nokia Lumia 900 and Lumia 800 offered with free Monster headphones in the UK this monthGoogle’s ambitious vision for its own wireless data network revealed in a patent. What a pity it’s dead »
