Synface telephone system for hard of hearing

Synface, a prototype phone system for the hard of hearing has recently gotten rave reviews in a study conducted by the Royal National Institute for Deaf People. It uses a laptop with special software and a regular telephone to render a talking head, which recreates the lip movements of the person at the other end of the line. This allows the user to both listen and lip read in real time, which has resulted in some participants catching twice as much of the conversation. Now, we tune out half of our conversations anyway but it might be worth it to use this (even though we hear fine) just for the pleasure of depicting the person on the other end as a disembodies floating head. But maybe that's just us.