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Items positioned on the wrist are vulnerable to getting knocked against objects in the environment, resulting in an undesirable noise spike; and clothing brushing agains the unit might be a problem. |
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Having said that, there is merit in this idea and it deserves further consideration. [+] |
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//wouldn't high fidelity microphone arrays on each
wrist supersede the attempt to shrink current hearing
aid technology? |
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As in "WHAT ? WHAT ? SPEAK UP A BIT, CAN'T YOU ? ALL I CAN HEAR IS RUSTLING NOISES" ? |
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If is cold enough for multiple layers, it is cold enough for ear muffs or a flapped ushanka but I see the point. A watch can be worn exposed on the top layer especially if it has a measurement that one's life depends. |
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My main idea was that the placement of hands in normal interactions, meeting, dining, and holding drinks at a party would give a closer position to the conversationalist and a wider separation to the background sounds that need to be filtered. Easier for analytical disambiguation |
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"Why do you have you arms outstretched?".
" I'm trying to hear what George is saying to Alicia over there, on that hill". |
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As text to speech improves, and as AI based transcription of
conversation improves you could make the audio very high
quality even with the bumps and susurrus of rustling fabric. |
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The watch would catch the noisy conversation and
reinterpret it into a pleasant and very similar to the speaker
voice. |
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This could also be used for high fidelity listening to distant
persons. |
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// A watch can be worn exposed on the top layer // |
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Hmmm ... that gives us an idea. |
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So, keep the microphone at the ears, or on bolts to
the neck for the Hallowee- trendy, or even on
wearable ears for the furry fans, and let the watch or
phone be the brains. |
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[RayfordSteele] There would be a double delay penalty. Listening, transmititting, calculating then transmitting again. At least with more complex mics on the hands, there is only calculate and transmit. |
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This nobody entity is still live and dependent on time. Maybe, a friend of black body. |
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It would be nice to have a complex waveform that each watch produces, off it's own listening array, that the interference or physical sumation supplies each ear bud with it's clarified signal. |
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A handy feature would be tapping into the bloke's wrist mic's who is in the front row at the theatre. This way I won't be blocking the view of those even farther back because my arms are in the air trying to hear! |
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Nice, Network all the bought-in audience. Now that's an ampytheatre. |
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When I was an auto mechanic, working under dashboards always made me wish for an eyeball in the tip of my pinky finger. |
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Then I would think about what it's like to slam your finger in a door ... |
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Have done, but I can't seem to remember. I tend to play with and fully feel in the moment. |
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// wish for an eyeball in the tip of my pinky finger // |
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It's now possible to purchase a USB camera endoscope for under USD$ 10. Very, very useful in so many applications. |
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By strange coincidence, I have just indeed purchased a USB
endoscope. The main problem is that its focal distance is
something like a metre. It would be better if it were (at
most) a couple of inches; better yet if it had a small enough
aperture to give a large depth of field. I am going to try
applying an epoxy-meniscus lens to the end of it to see if it
can be improved. |
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Professional endoscopes seem to keep everything in focus
from a fraction of an inch out to six inches or more - I
presume this is because they use a high-sensitivity detector
and a small aperture. |
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Also a coincidence, I recently purchased an inexpensive USB endoscope for use as an otoscope in the clinic. Works great for pediatrics. It's focal distance is optimal for 2-10 cm. Search terms, "ear, USB, endoscope". Works with both Android and iOS |
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