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Dolby Atmos: The Incredible Prototype Cinema Behind Future Movie Sound
Tucked in a corner of Soho Square, cosied up against ad agencies and seemingly every media firm in London, is the London HQ of Dolby, who you may remember from the title credits of just about every film ever. Hiding in the heart of this otherwise-ordinary building, though, is arguably the coolest cinema in the country, created at enormous expense to demonstrate the next gen of cinema tech.
This Table Designs Itself With A Corrosive Chemical Dance Party
There are all kinds of ways to design a table, but most of them don’t include resonant frequencies or specially-designed abrasive enzymes, much less both. Bonus Table 571 isn’t most tables though, and that’s exactly how it gets its very specific pattern.
Listen To Alexander Graham Bell Introduce Himself From 100 Ago
It’s not often you get to hear with the 19th century sounded like, but thanks to 3D scanning and old wax cylinders, it’s possible. And now, for the very first time, we know what Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the all-important telephone, might have sounded like when he made that historic call.
Jurassic Park’s Dinosaur Sound Effects Were Actually Animal Sex Sounds
So, uh, this is an uncomfortable one. You know the dinosaur sounds from Jurassic Park that framed the way you imagined every dinosaur ever? They were actually recordings of animals boning or just about to bone.
What Do Earth’s Mountains And Valleys Really Sound Like?
If you zoom in on the surface of a vinyl record using a microscope, it kind of looks like a series of mountains and valleys to the untrained eye. It’s actually the waveform representation of a song or other sounds, but what would happen if you took a map of the Earth’s mountains and valleys and turned that into a record? The results, of course, sound terrible.
These Are The Secret Sounds Of All Your Electronics
We all know the telltale hum of a computer’s fan kicking on, or the barely-there buzz of flourscent lights. But even the most whisper-quiet devices are singing their little songs of daily life; you just can’t hear them. At least not without some help.
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