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Actually this reminded me of that episode of Big Bang Theory where Sheldon gets paranoid about germs or something and builds a similar device to interact with others. It was also the episode where they bring in Steve Wozniak. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K1uj9VmCzo
They used this one: http://www.willowgarage.com/pages/texai/overview (Competition coming soon https://www.suitabletech.com/ )
Din't think it was a real product, thought it was something they rigged up for the show. Thanks for the link.