Monday, November 8, 2004
Hypersonic Sound: So Crazy, It Just Might Work
Posted by Jason Dunn in "ARTICLE" @ 11:30 AM
"It's the most promising audio advance in years, and it's coming this fall: Hypersonic speakers, from American Technology (headed by the irrepressible Woody Norris, whose radical personal flying machine appeared on our August cover), focus sound in a tight beam, much like a laser focuses light...The applications are many, from targeted advertising to virtual rear-channel speakers. The key is frequency: The ultrasonic speakers create sound at more than 20,000 cycles per second, a rate high enough to keep in a focused beam and beyond the range of human hearing."
This is unbelievably cool! 8O I just hope it makes it's way to the mainstream market. Having 3.1 speakers and getting 5.1 or 7.1 sound from them would be awesome!
This is unbelievably cool! 8O I just hope it makes it's way to the mainstream market. Having 3.1 speakers and getting 5.1 or 7.1 sound from them would be awesome!
