Talking train window adverts tested in Germany ("appears to come from inside your head")

[muriel_volestrangler]

A German firm is proposing to transmit adverts via train windows so that the sound appears to "come from inside the user's head" when passengers lean against them.

The idea would use bone conduction technology, a technique that transmits sound to the inner ear by passing vibrations through the skull.
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"Tired commuters often rest their heads against windows," says the ad.

"Suddenly a voice inside their head is talking to them. No-one else can hear this message."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23167112

Oh yes, I can see that really helping a tired commuter. Why wouldn't you want to think you're hallucinating, at the end of a long day?

[silverweb]

1. Two of many possible outcomes:

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"](1) Sudden swarms of broken train windows will begin to occur.

(2) Entrepreneurs will offer for sale a variety of pillows specially designed for leaning against these windows and canceling the conduction of any sound.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. It will not take long for the corpocracy here to make train and bus

windows with both sound and video.

[silverweb]

11. Too true.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]And other than those who just endure, we'll have the same outcomes: Destruction or entrepreneurial cancellation.

[vdogg]

2. Wow.

This is a terrible idea. I mean absolutely terrible. People love getting email spam, text message spam, and adware. Why wouldn't they like it in their heads too?

[n2doc]

3. I can absolutely promise that if I ever heard such an ad

I would never buy their products again, and would actively try to spread the boycott.

What sort of idiot thought this up?

[idwiyo]

5. I can see a hell of a lot of broken train windows in the feature. :)

[longship]

6. It still does not explain Governor Perry.

However I can see much mischief be done with this tech. Good for practical joking.

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

8. Mischief was my first thought

A nice soft repeating voice of god telling you to take your clothes off and run down the length of the train.

That one hit me first, I'm sure there are tons of better ones that are more likely to work.

[longship]

9. "You *must* go to the dining car in your underwear!"

[bananas]

15. That would make a great episode of Candid Camera. nt

[Warpy]

7. Ugh. I can see a few broken windows in their future

by people on the edge who are just not going to take that kind of intrusion kindly.

It's time to restrict where and how advertisers can ply their trades.

[sakabatou]

10. I know they used this tech with candy.

[Democracyinkind]

12. I've experienced this in a lab demonstration.

Really creepy "inside" feel to it.

[eppur_se_muova]

13. Denham's Dentifrice, Denham's Dandy Dental Detergent, Denham's Dentifrice Dentifrice Dentifrice

http://www.naderlibrary.com/fahren-ray.2.htm

[dimbear]

14. Ich will rache nehmen, ich will rache nehmen.....

sounds a little like the wheels rattling on the rails.

[Orsino]

16. Harrison Bergeron. n/t