Cylon raider? A new Tron vehicle that we’ll see in an upcoming director’s cut? Definitive proof that we are not alone? Actually, it’s none of those things, but the dead silence it produces is amazing anyway.
Scientists have come up with a super-sensitive microphone that works underwater. What did it take? The same thing it takes to accomplish anything worth doing: lasers.
The Phonofone III, like the Phonofone II before it, pumps tunes from your iPhone at 60dB without having to be plugged in to any outlet. Yup. It’s just big beautiful acoustic amplification.
Electricity—who needs it!? The Koostik, an iPhone dock made of wood (and nothing else), has “specially designed sound channels and hemispherical sound chambers” for “rich, dynamic and natural acoustic amplification.” Perfect for the iPhone-user with an Amish streak.
Penn State’s Beaver Stadium is already one of the toughest away venues in college football. But this spring – thanks to some scientific chicanery – it’s going to be nearly 50 per cent louder, making it almost impossible for opposing QBs to be heard.
