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Sound Powered LEDs Turn Screams Into Power

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.


November 19, 2011
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A Sound System Made Of 5000 Beer Cans

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.


November 18, 2011
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What Is The LRAD Sound Cannon?

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.


October 6, 2011
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This Dog Food Commercial Has Sounds Only A Dog Can Hear

Commercials have become so effective at focusing on what us human people want that we can’t stop watching them. Oh scantily clad women. Oh short attention spans. Dogs can join in the brain dead fun now too, there’s a commercial made with sounds only a dog can hear.


Science

Good Sound You Can Measure Vs Good Sound You Can Hear

People who care about what audio products sound like can be divided into those who need to KNOW — scientifically — something sounds good and those who abide by the old Duke Ellington adage, “If it sounds good it IS good.”


September 27, 2011
Entertainment

Daily Desired: High-Fidelity Sound Product You’ll Actually Use

One reason even sound nerds are abandoning high-fidelity audio gear is that it’s ugly. The appearance of these products doesn’t always sing. This USB interface will improve the sound of your digital music, and it’s handsome enough that you’ll care.


September 22, 2011
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How Do Everyday Objects Sound Amplified?

Sam Weller, from The Royal College of Art, got an idea: create a device that would allow every object around us to become an instrument, amplifying their natural resonance. He worked with Yamaha and got these beautiful results.


September 21, 2011
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The Sound Tank Is Built To Wage War On Your Eardrums

This thing is a monster. Nik Nowak, a DJ hailing from Berlin, outfitted this Japanese mini-dump truck to become a veritable assault vehicle of sound, capable of pumping out 4000 watts of moving acoustic muscle.


September 19, 2011
Entertainment

Speakers Disguised As Art Are Pointless If The Art Sucks

The idea of having home theatre speakers masked as art prints is certainly enticing. But when there are only 20 designs to choose from, and they all look PRETTY TERRIBLE, that intrigue quickly evaporates.


September 13, 2011
Entertainment

Stone Speakers 20,000% Greener Than Other Speakers?

Throwing a figure like 20,000 per cent around seems absurd. Rarely is anything we use in our normal lives 20,000 per cent more/less/better/worse/whatever than a competing product. Yet, AudioMasons claim their stone speakers are 20,000 per cent greener than other speakers. Seriously?