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Why you might soon think you're hearing things

Gadgets & Tech – A technology that beams sound directly into people's ears has advertisers salivating, but as Vito Pilieci writes, critics fear yet another invasion of privacy. After more than a decade of development, technology that directs a beam of sound straight into a person's eardrums is ready for primetime.

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Technology ripe for abuse.

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I can only think of bad uses for this.

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Kiss privacy inside your own head in public good-bye. I already find those displays that sense when someone is close and start up a spiel to be unusually annoying.

Of course, design something that effectively blocks such signals and make your own fortune.

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I should add, there may yet be a good use for tinfoil hats! ;-)

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O goody, spam brought inside your head! That is going to REALLY pi$$ me off. There is no way I would ever buy anything from some a$$hole who uses such in-your-face sales techniques as that. The seller obviously has no regard for their customers feelings at all.

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I will wait and see. It may beat the continuous PA system screaming across the area.

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