Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Lying Through Their Teeth

Does it sound plausible to you that you could embed a cell phone in a tooth? If not, then you are more discriminating than Time magazine, which named the cell phone tooth one of its inventions of the year. The full story is a funny example of how two art students exaggerated about their concept by telling people they had a prototype pending, to be productized in a year or so, and this story propagating and morphing in reports of fact by Wired, the BBC, and Time among others.

And speaking of cell phones, someone left me a voice message today on mine. For some reason, I was told I had two messages. When I listened to them, I discovered the earlier one was from Mom saying they could not wait to find out about the polo game and could I let them know what happened. And the message was only delivered a week late.

1 comment:

Keith said...

Maybe you should see a dentist