These days bone conduction techniques are becoming more commonplace with advances in signalling technology giving rise to headphones, and hearing aids, among which there are specialized communication products such as a bone conduction speaker that is used by scuba divers. More recently is the Google Glass device for the relay of information to the user through a microphone that sits beside the user's ear.
But BBDO Germany is taking this technology a step further with highly specialized device attached to the windows of public transport that silently transmits high-frequency oscillations that your brain converts into sound.
Demonstrated in the following video we see travellers on a train leaning their heads on the train's windows possibly through boredom and or catching up some dozzie sleep but become quietly alarmed by a sound track perceiving to be working like voices from within their heads.
The sole purpose of this technology was to discover ways to perpetuate a new form of advertising, but in sum, although one's boredom may in some small way be alleviated it also suggests a new form of invading or challenging one's privacy ?