Material Turns All Surfaces into Stereo 142
An anonymous reader writes "According to James Bullen of NXT, 'The UK ministry of defense was experimenting with a way to dampen the sound in helicopters and developed a honeycombed material that did the opposite — conducted sound.' Cambridge-based NXT christened it "SurfaceSound" and arranged for it to be crafted into Toyota cars, Gateway computers, Hallmark greeting cards and more.
NXT is working on ways to put the technology to use in touch screens that promise to be part of a new rage in 'natural interfaces' for computers, mobile telephones, televisions and other electronic devices.
Toyota has SurfaceSound in the head liners of four of its car models.
NXT recently made a deal with greeting card giant Hallmark to use the technology in 'big cards with big sound' when opened, Bullen said."
Re:Great .. more noise pollution :( (Score:3, Funny)
True surround sound headphones (Score:3, Funny)
Just wrap the FlexiHalo (tm) speaker around your head and listen in infinity.0!
Surfaces... into Stereo? (Score:5, Funny)
With any luck, in a few years we will be able to turn six surfaces into 5.1!
Demolition (Score:5, Funny)
Ha! (Score:4, Funny)
Man I hope this doesn't work with fabric (Score:5, Funny)
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Unexpected source? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The heck with headphones! (Score:3, Funny)
ahhh that ain't nuthin' ... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The heck with headphones! (Score:3, Funny)
won't someone think of the basers? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:won't someone think of the basers? (Score:5, Funny)
:P
Re:won't someone think of the basers? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The heck with headphones! (Score:3, Funny)
Hallmark cards? (Score:5, Funny)
I can see this at Christmas.
*Little Jimmy* Here you go grandma!
*Grandma* Why thank you Jimmy you're such a
{100 decibels} WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS!...
*Grandma* Augh!
[THUD]
*Little Jimmy* Grandma? Grandma? Why'd you go to sleep?
Re:True surround sound headphones (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Stereo = misnomer (Score:3, Funny)
Think of the porn games, man. Think of the porn (Score:5, Funny)
In fact, if you can make a bit of paper play sounds, heck, who needs the game there? The magazine could be its own game. Rub the girl in the photo there and hear her moan, rub her there and she... umm... sorry, gotta go to the bathroom. I'll... uh... do some brainstorming and get back to you later
Re:When you DAMPEN something you make it wet (Score:2, Funny)
Sound and vibration are DAMPED.
DAMPENING is for dishtowels.
It's probably based on HiFi magazine terminology:
"Using that technology, you will be soaked with great dewily bass,
humid treble and moist mid-range audio. Be careful though to
use properly luted cables or you will get drowned by the leaked
wet noise."
Re:In other news... (Score:3, Funny)
Finally a card for Grandpa (Score:3, Funny)
Of course (Score:5, Funny)
That's good, because honeycomb speakers are big...yeah yeah yeah! They're not small...no no no!