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Thursday, June 5, 2008

ultrasound......not just for babies


Holosonic Research Labs..... Their incredibly cool Audio Spotlight technology fires a narrow beam of ultrasound that distorts in a predictable pattern through as it travels through air. The result is the sonic equivalent of a laser - an invisible ray of sound that can only be heard by someone standing directly in its path. sooooo.
Basically, Audio Spotlight turns the AIR into a loudspeaker that can only be heard by standing INSIDE of it. Sound can be projected like a beam of light, bounced off of surfaces, and manipulated in all kinds of other novel ways. The New York Times called Audio Spotlight "the most radical technological development in acoustics since the coil loudspeaker was invented in 1925," and with good reason...

1 comment:

dead.in.denver said...

Fuck yeah....i went to this night club in Tianjin that had directional sound so you could hear different types of music in the same room......people on the dance floor were all dancing to different beats depending on the part of the floor you were on