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Letter: On the telepathophone

Published 2 April 2008

From Andrew Stephenson

You report that the Ambient Corporation is developing a device to convert thought into words through the use of sensors (8 March, p 23).

The obvious next step is to transmit this signal to a similar device worn by someone else, which would send it to their brain as a thought message.

T-mail, perhaps?

Newhaven, East Sussex, UK

Issue no. 2650 published 5 April 2008

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