Hear No Evil

Speechless communication is now a tangible reality thanks to the Ambient Corporation. Ambient Devices Incorporated is a spin off from the Massachucettes Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab. The Ambient Corporation has moved from specializing in harnessing electric power grids to wireless stock tickers and energy joules. The demo of the speechless neck brace featured above is a clip from the Texas Instruments convention held this past March in Dallas. Texas Instruments manufactures the ultra-low power MSP430 microcontroller component used in the device. Strange reversal of fortune? The last time Texas Instruments racked up in market allocation was for its graphing calculators ubiquitous in high school Trig and AP Calculus classes.