Embedding Data Signals In White Noise 239
Anemophilous Coward writes "ZDNet has the following article which describes a company that 'has devised a method for sending wireless signals over ordinary audio speakers so that humans can't hear them. With this same technology, radio stations can unobtrusively transmit ads, Web site URLs, or information about music and artists to in-car cell phones.'" Here is some further reading about the company, Intrasonics.
OK....Where's my tinfoil hat? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh Great..... (Score:5, Funny)
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Why does spot keep beating his head on the ground? (Score:5, Funny)
Hey! (Score:3, Funny)
Exciting! (Score:5, Funny)
Where can I buy stock?
And straight into our brains, man! (Score:4, Funny)
Ignore the man behind the curtain (Score:3, Funny)
Ignore the messages embedded in this whitenoise.
You will Loooooooove Microsoft
You will Haaaaaaaate Open Source
Linux is eeeeeeeevil
War on Iraq is goooooooood
I can hear the audiophiles now... (Score:5, Funny)
-dameron
Re:Exciting! (Score:2, Funny)
Actually, a pervasive peddler of socially repugnant (but widely used) products has already enlisted an unsavory character to respond to hidden broadcast signals: 2/7/1997: Microsoft Launches ActiMates Early Learning System, featuring Barney the Dinosaur [microsoft.com]
Oddly enough, both product concepts include playing "peek-a-boo".
question... (Score:3, Funny)
Humans tend to filter out what they don't want to hear, especially the pop, fizz and hum of white noise."
So if I understand this correctly, the technology can transmit advertisements, spam, and pop music completely unheard by the human ear by disgusing them as advertisements, spam, and pop music?
I think I know... (Score:3, Funny)
oh wait...you mean the OTHER white noise
nbfn
Color encoded in black-and-white signal! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ignore the man behind the curtain (Score:5, Funny)
Re:OK....Where's my tinfoil hat? (Score:3, Funny)
Come on' this is
That's the easy part... (Score:2, Funny)