Finger phone gadget smashes Kickstarter target in hours
Remember when you were a kid playing secret agents by sticking a finger in your ear to mimic speaking on some kind of futuristic phone? Well, the future is apparently here — courtesy of a new Kickstarter campaign called Sgnl.
Sgnl’s concept? To give you a wearable wristband, complete with built-in microphone, which channels sound waves up your finger and directly into your ear. The wristband can act as a standalone device, but it’s primarily designed to be worn as a watch strap.
“The technology is a body conduction unit,” Hahn Ryu, director of business development for creators Innomdle Lab, a spinoff from Samsung, told Digital Trends. “There’s an actuator built into the strap that translates a voice signal into a vibration. When the BCU module is in contact with your wrist, the vibration goes all the way up your fingertip. If you touch your ear it then vibrates the air in your ear canal, which lets you hear sound.”
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