This is the acoustic hyperlens developed by the Xiang Zhang research group. Think of it as a radar dish for sound waves. Put into practice, it can increase performance of ultrasound baby-spotting and sonar submarine sighting by 8x. [EurekAlert, popsci]
James-Mac
October 27, 2009 at 12:05 PM
If you monted that on a submarine it would make more noise than it picks up.
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