New Device Puts Music in Your Head

[mechman]

No headphones required? What sort of wizardry is this?? From AP News - Link

 

[Sonnie]

uh-huh... yeah. I don't see that sounding anything like headphones or of any quality.

 

[Todd Anderson]

What.

 

[Todd Anderson]

I'm imagining this sounds very thin... curious tho!

 

[mechman]

I have no idea how it would work or if it would be any good, but the article sure caught my eye!

 

[Todd Anderson]

It says it uses ultrasonic waves, which would be above the upper threshold of human hearing. Not sure how they manage to create "sound pockets" around your ears. Weird.

One thing's for sure: this will drive dogs CRAZY

 

[Kal Rubinson]

Here's a link to the underlying technology:

U.S. Navy Contract - Acoustic Heterodyning (Ultrasound)

www.transformation.dk

 

[Todd Anderson]

"When voice-FM is used in place of normal, hearable audio, you have one method of targetting a person at a distance, even in a crowd, with hypnotic commands which cannot be heard by the ears but which are heard and understood by the mind."

That's straight-up CREEPY. Is this similar to the sonic attack on the US Embassy in Cuba??

 

[highstream]

Safe in commercial applications?

 

[Conrad.]

He describes the revolutionary way that he can be free without headphones and that there's no other technology that does it - all the while wearing ear pods which are wireless headphones!