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This isn't a "microphone" at all. Microphones by definition transduce the physical movement of sounds waves into a signal. This is just using the sound card to

• pygy_ 11y ago
  It is not a microphone, but a mic (bio-) amplifier, which is indeed good enough (bandwidth- and power-wise) to sample muscle signals.
  • sigmar 11y ago
    It is definitely good enough to sample the signals. But why use an inaccurate title? Wiring something into a soundcard doesn't make it a microphone.
    • pygy_ 11y ago
      "microphone" qualifies "amplifier", meaning that it's an amplifier designed for processing signal coming from a microphone. The title is a word play summarizing the fact that the author used such an amp to record biological signals. In context, it doesn't means or even imply that he uses a microphone. Edit: word play, not pun; Edit2: +s; 3: better still.
      • moron4hire 11y ago
        *she
        • pygy_ 11y ago
          *I wish English had a proper personal, gender-neutral pronoun. Editing, anyway.
          • pluma 11y ago
            They. Yes, if you're not familiar with it, it looks like the plural form, but it has been used to denote individuals even before "political correctness" became a thing.
            • mdpm 11y ago
              Thon could also use https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thon https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thon edit: that part meant jokingly (please). Although https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_grammar#Pronouns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_grammar#Pronouns is far more interesting.
          • kenbellows 11y ago
            The proper personal, gender-neutral pronoun in English is "they"
            • SamReidHughes 11y ago
              Yeah but "that they" is awkward.
    • detaro 11y ago
      I took it as a wordplay on "microphone amplifier" and "bioamplifier"
• aw3c2 11y ago
  By definition https://shkspr.mobi/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Zoolander-Phone.jpg https://shkspr.mobi/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Zoolande... is a microphone