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OBJECT TYPE
WIRELESS
DATE
1995
ARTIFACT NUMBER
2017.0112.001
MANUFACTURER
Northern Telecom Ltd.
MODEL
SoundBeam
LOCATION
Canada

More Information


General Information

Serial #
N/A
Part Number
1
Total Parts
2
AKA
Hands-Free Neckset
Patents
N/A
General Description
An object made of synthetic and metal elements/Un objet fait avec des éléments synthétiques et en métal.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length
27.5 cm
Width
25.0 cm
Height
3.5 cm
Thickness
N/A
Weight
N/A
Diameter
N/A
Volume
N/A

Lexicon

Group
Communications
Category
Telephony
Sub-Category
N/A

Manufacturer

AKA
Northern Telecom
Country
Canada
State/Province
Unknown
City
Unknown

Context

Country
Canada
State/Province
Unknown
Period
Unknown
Canada
The “neckset” was positioned as a new technology between acting as a speakerphone and a traditional headset. The SoundBeam was developed as far as a pre-production model used in market testing. A thousand of the devices were made and tested in offices across Canada. Despite being pitched to the leadership at Bell Northern and Northern Telecom and undergoing a cost breakdown analysis, the “necktie” never moved beyond the concept stage in 1983. The rise of cell phones and the invention of Bluetooth became adopted by the workforce and quickly sent technology such as the SoundBeam all but obsolete. Le casque d'écoute du cou était positionné comme une nouvelle technologie qui agissaient comme un casque d'écoute traditionnelle. Le SoundBeam a seulement été développer jusqu'à la phase de pré production et utiliser pour des études de commercialisation. Mille dispositifs ont été construit et distribuer aux bureaux à travers le Canada. Malgré la présentation du SoundBeam aux chefs de Bell Northern et Northen Telecom la phase de production n'est jamais arrivée en 1983. Les téléphones cellulaires Ainsi que le Bluetooth on apparut soudainement et fait en sorte que des technologies comme le SoundBeam est devenu périmé.
Function
A wearable, hands free, speaker and microphone unit used with a telephone. This particular unit was used in the pre-production product trails to test how the market might use the product. Un objet portable et conçu pour être main libre, utilisant des microphones et haut-parleur en connexion avec un téléphone. Cette unité en particulier étais utilisé en pré production pour tester le marché et accumuler des renseignements sur leur nouveau produit.
Technical
The “hands free neckset”, which became the SoundBeam, was first proposed by Bell Northern Research industrial designer Jim Bee in 1983. The SoundBeam was developed create an area of sound around the wearer which was not interfered with from people outside the telephone conversation. Noises directly in front of or behind the shoulder set wearer are in a null space for the microphone meaning that their interference is reduced to almost zero. People to the sides of the wearer also see a significant noise reduction of up to 18 dbs. Le casque sans fil est éventuellement devenu le SoundBeam et a été propose par Bell Northern Research et leur concepteur Jim Bee en 1983. Le SoundBeam a été développé pour créer un environnement de son autour du porteur qui n'était pas dérangé par des bruits en dehors d'une conversation téléphonique. Les bruits directement en avant ou en arrière du porteur sont des espaces vide et l'interférence est réduite à quasiment zéro. Le monde qui se tient sur les côtes du porteur sont réduit en volume jusqu'à un niveau de 12 décibels.
Area Notes
Unknown

Details

Markings
Along the bottom proper right side of the artifact/ sur le bon côté droit de l'objet: "NORTEL".
Missing
Non Apparent l'objet a toutes ces pièces
Finish
The artifact is made of a bronze synthetic material and has a curved "U" shape. It shows a circular speaker at the bottom of its proper right side with a green button as well as two additional speakers (one directly above the first one and one on its proper left end) L'objet est construit avec un matériel synthétique de couleur bronze et est courbée en forme de la lettre ‘'U''. L'objet a haut-parleur sur le bon côté droit avec un bouton vert ainsi que deux autres hauts-parleurs (un directement au-dessus du premier mentionner et un autre au bout du bon coter gauche)
Decoration
N/A

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