A hoax revealed?
Back in 2002, Time Magazine wrote about a fabulous new invention, one of the best of the year, it said. It was supposed to turn a human tooth into a mobile phone of sorts. Time and many other media outlets reported that a couple of students from the Royal College of Art in London had devised an implantable dental chip that would receive radio signals and transmit the sound to a person's inner ear via the jawbone. But it turns out the art students never really built anything, and were mostly just trying to be provocative. Wired News reporter Rachel Metz got the "inventors" to fess up when she called them recently for an update on the tooth phone.
