I just came across this clip from Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World (2007). What you can hear in it is fascinating: the sound of seals in the Antarctic are like nothing you could have imagined. More »
An Australian startup company is claiming that it’s reinventing the speaker market with its 3D speakers — or as it would prefer to call them, acoustic hologram generators. More »
I love things I can touch. Knobs and dials. Buttons. The Griffin 20 gives you a big honkin’ dial to control your wireless music. The grace of AirPlay with the goodness of twistin’ stuff. More »
The magic of the Muppets is the uncanny suspension of disbelief, which itself is a function of their being actual physical entities. A CGI Kermit would be a joke; the one we grew up with, though, we can see, touch and hear. And that last part is sorely underrated. More »
Using a regular speaker blasting out a narrow beam of sound, researchers have developed an LED that can actually be powered by nothing but audio. Providing a new way to deliver wireless power to devices from greater distances. More »
If my hangover existed in real life, it would be in the form of this 5000 beer can speaker system. Yup. All the beer I drank over the past few years booming different noises right inside my ear as I groggily make sense of what happened to my life. More »
The Occupy movement has become of the longest large-scale protests in US history, and all that protesting had pitted the activists against police departments and their crowd-control weapons. One of the more controversial of those is the LRAD Sound Cannon. So what’s the harm in a little noise? Well, a lot, actually. More »
