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Model: C-3P

Weight: 57 grams
Description: Contains a digital camera as well as usual EarPod functions.


Model: C-60

Weight: 55 grams
Description: Functional. The new standard Cybus EarPod.

All Earpods cost 50 Cyber Points. A national Earpod service plan costs 500 NSDs per citizen per year.
OOC: see here for photos:
http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.ph...137716#p7008744

So... How does the interface work? I don't see any buttons or anything, this thing seems too small to have those.

Camera on such a small thing? I don't think it's possible. And I don't think it'd be useful since, well, it's in your ear, you can't aim it, and there's no screen or anything to see what you are taking pictures off. Not a big fan of camera's on cellphones anyways, they tend to be crappy and especially compared to a real camera.

You think to oporate it. an you think to take photos and the photos are a little fuzzy from far away but is great at close range, ideal for spys. It is not in your ear, you can swival the Earpod to aim, the photo and pre-photo aimer is projected in your brain.

...And this is MT?

Not possible. I know people are experimenting with it but neural interface isn't reliable enough to provide a proper alternative to buttons.

I doubt a real proffesional spy (not the kind of you see in movies with their fancy cars and stylish pencil-with-inbuilt-bungeecord gadgets) would want something like this, and I doubt a consumer would pay a lot for a camera that small. No way. The fact that you can't aim it properly still stands, even if the camera can be aimed.

And reverse neural interface (if that is the right way to describe it) is something that is AFAIK not even tried (or maybe not even possible!) in real life. So that is pretty ridiculous. Besides if it was possible it would not even be neccesary to put this in your ear; you could just plant the sound right in your brains, no? Or you could plant the memory card of the device in your brain and record data coming from your own eyes, right?

Seriously though, NO. Really no. Aside from the obvious technological concerns, there is no reason at all you'd want something that small.

On a small sidenote, you also seem to have a more promising design in your storefront, the YouPhone. Perhaps you could base an improved version on that, I don't know.

actually has been commercially viable for several years

h/e the design is rather uninspired. There's a laundry list of functions that it does but not how it does them. Better word would be "sales pitch."

This looks familiar.

http://cybermantra.wordpress.com/tag/cybus-industries/

That neuro-thingie looks scary. But cool. However, how reliable would the interface be? (In that it does or does not react immediatly on every single imput the user thinks.)

It reacts instantly to every input.

That sort of is not good. I'm afraid it would be too sensitive to be of good use for a proper interface. But perhaps I'm being too sceptical here, I have not delved into this technology. Website claims controlling a wheelchair is possible so it seems okay. One topic still stands though; why not just buttons? Why pay 300 dollar more just to turn stuff on with your thoughts when using a simple button is also possible? WHY?

Displays are also still a problem. Portraying stuff inside your brain does seem impossible.

Btw, you ripped this off again. >:-[

It's not your design.