Re: OT: Bionic Woman again

On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:00:17 -0400, Manfred Mann
<ManfredMann@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> puked:

>On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:26:57 -0400, "lab~rat  >:-)" <chase@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>wrote:
>>>Who is to say you can't have more than one way to pick up sound in
>>>that one ear?  And then use those sources in the ear to detemine the
>>>direction it's coming from?  In theory you could have as many sources
>>>for picking up sound in that ear as you can fit on an intergrated
>>>circuit board.
>>
>>How would you perceive direction with one ear?
>
>With the miniaturization they have today you can have
>several receivers in the ear, they can then triangulate 
>on the signal.  It would be the equivalant of having sevearal
>cell phones that can be used to triangulate on the signal.

If you have one reception point in your head, the sound travels down
your ear canal.  You cannot triangulate a signal using one point.
>
>You do realize they've used cell phones in this way
>to triangulate on a person they had to find?

They use multiple cel phone towers to do that.

--
lab~rat  >:-)
Stupid humans...