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Friday, April 22, 2005
If A Tree Falls In The Woods
This is cool, but freaky:
Elwood "Woody" Norris pointed a metal frequency emitter at one of perhaps 30 people who had come to see his invention. The emitter — an aluminum square — was hooked up by a wire to a CD player. Norris switched on the CD player.
"There's no speaker, but when I point this pad at you, you will hear the waterfall," said the 63-year-old Californian.
And one by one, each person in the audience did, and smiled widely.
Norris' HyperSonic Sound system has won him an award coveted by inventors — the $500,000 annual Lemelson-MIT Prize. It works by sending a focused beam of sound above the range of human hearing. When it lands on you, it seems like sound is coming from inside your head.
But will it compete with the voices in my head? Speaking of which, I can see all sorts of practical jokes and gaslighting going on with this technology...
ntodd
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Cool.
And you can get a similar "voices in head" effect with earphones - this just does it w/o the wires.
Happy Earth Day!
Posted by: TheaLogie | Apr 22, 2005 9:10:11 AM
Ah, the wonder of invention. I was expecting some kind of serious topic like cat blogging or dog blogging. If there were such bloggings, I would have mention some alpha art dog blogging, perhaps some Basquiat blogging.
But alas there is no cat blogging. Or is there?
I now live for cat blogging. *sigh*
Posted by: The Heretik | Apr 22, 2005 9:12:48 AM
I read the article about this in The New York Times Magazine. Turns out he can focus the beam so tightly, and at such strength he can render someone unconcous. It's going to be the basis of a whole new range of weapons.
Posted by: Rook | Apr 22, 2005 10:22:05 AM
You're kidding me, right?
Posted by: Kat | Apr 22, 2005 11:05:36 AM
Heard about this too. CIA mind control-wise, it can freak out people in a crowd because it will only activate on them...hearing voices will take on a whole new meaning. I'm sure that the CIA has thought about how to manipulate a mob making people follow fake directions down side streets, etc. etc. Scary that fully powered it can stun (and suddenly overheat your body), but I think I remember reading that actual tinfoil can thwart the rays!
They thought about using it with selling stuff: standing in front of a sodapop dispenser, you would get ads for Coke etc. How massively invasive this is!
Posted by: ellroon | Apr 22, 2005 11:17:42 AM
Excuse me, but doesn't regular exposure to "sound above the range of human hearing" cause fatigue in the short term and worse effects in the long term? At least that's what I heard 30 years ago or so. Oh well, who cares, as long as you can stream a tune, ears unencumbered, while you cruise down the road... before you collapse over your steering wheel. :)
Posted by: Steve Bates | Apr 22, 2005 12:37:46 PM
Excuse me, but doesn't regular exposure to "sound above the range of human hearing" cause fatigue in the short term and worse effects in the long term? At least that's what I heard 30 years ago or so. Oh well, who cares, as long as you can stream a tune, ears unencumbered, while you cruise down the road... before you collapse over your steering wheel. :)
Posted by: Steve Bates | Apr 22, 2005 12:41:33 PM
Honest... the double-post is not my fault. My first attempt to post the comment got a proxy server error... TypePad's, not mine; I don't have a proxy server here. I went back and refreshed the original page to make sure my comment wasn't already there. It wasn't. I reposted. Then both posts appeared.
While you're righteously dissing Blogger, you may want to save a few words for TypePad's comment facility.
Posted by: Steve Bates | Apr 22, 2005 12:45:46 PM
Wow! That is really freaky. Now, why did that guy make the gadget? It probably will be used ty the CIA or FBI when they figure out how it will help them. I wonder if it could block radio frequencies, etc. if changed around a bit?
As far as Steve Bates double posting not being his fault, yeah - right, buddy! He also mentioned sound waves about our hearing capabilities, I wonder if the "white noise" is what makes me so tired?
Posted by: oldwhitelady | Apr 22, 2005 1:35:12 PM
I am not fucking down with that shit at all.
BTW, the Pentagon probably developed it in the early 80s.
Posted by: norbizness | Apr 22, 2005 3:41:54 PM
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