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Saturday, May 09, 2009

Engineers seek to patent "cone of silence." What?

Those who don't learn the lessons of 1960s sitcoms are doomed to repeat them. MIT eggheads Joe Paradiso and Yasuhiro Ono have filed a patent application for a "cone of silence" -- a device that keeps private conversation private. It works by sensing where nearby humans are, and generating "subtle masking sounds" to prevent conversations from being heard.

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Blogger rjr said...

This is a great invention, American ingenuity at its best.

It probably will not be long before one or more of the members of the Coalition for Patent Fairness rips off the invention and accuses the inventors and anyone else who has the gall to hold them accountable of being a patent troll. The Coalition is better and more appropriately referred to as the Piracy Coalition.

Patent trolls are simply inventors and their partners who expect big business to respect their patent property rights.

Ronald J. Riley,


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Monday, May 11, 2009 3:31:00 PM  
Anonymous Micheal said...

^ Another American Full of Himself...
Fortunately the USA is not the center of the universe, nor the galaxy, nor the solar system, not even the planet earth revolves around it.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009 5:17:00 PM  

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