Alice Hill of RealTechNews writes:

Ah patent law… who knew that writing about it would be so entertaining and infuriating at the same time? We have covered patents on the cup and string phone, the emoticon, and today, a new type of vibrating phone from Motorola that would use electrical pulses to stimulate the skin and rid nearby people of that annoying buzzing sound today’s crude and non-therapeutic vibrating phones produce.

The stimulator pads of the present invention can, in addition to the uses stated above for notification, be used for therapeutic stimulation of the various epidermal and subcutaneous areas of the wearer’s body. The stimulus patterns can be manually programmed into the device by the user, selected from a programmed list of patterns in the device or, alternatively, can be downloaded to the device from, for example, a doctor’s website or in-office computer by a therapist. In this way, the patterns that provide the most therapeutic benefits can be provided to the user.

We Say: Shucks, this one writes itself, she says blushing. Insert your own vibration, therapeutic joke here and then go and read the patent application yourself.

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