Published on: 2025-06-03 18:00:16
Consider, for your listening pleasure, the next frontier in sonic miracles: so-called "audible enclaves," where only you can hear a sound without disturbing anyone else in open space — no headphones required. As developed by a team of researchers at Penn State, whose findings are published as study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, this technology can create pockets of sound isolated from their surroundings that can be targeted at a specific location, potentially p
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 07:58:00
The bleeding edge: Imagine listening to music or a podcast without headphones while not disturbing others or having a private conversation in a crowded place with the assurance that only the intended listener can hear your voice. Scientists have developed a new technology called "audio enclaves" that could make this a reality by creating localized pockets of sound isolated from their surroundings. Directing sound to a specific location is difficult because of how sound waves behave. As vibratio
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 12:58:00
The bleeding edge: Imagine listening to music or a podcast without headphones while not disturbing others or having a private conversation in a crowded place with the assurance that only the intended listener can hear your voice. Scientists have developed a new technology called "audio enclaves" that could make this a reality by creating localized pockets of sound isolated from their surroundings. Directing sound to a specific location is difficult because of how sound waves behave. As vibratio
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 09:46:53
Alphabet is letting its laser-based internet company Taara fly and be free, according to reporting by Financial Times. Google’s parent company is spinning off the service from X, its moonshot incubator system (not to be confused with X the social network.) Taara uses light beams to provide high-bandwidth internet and phone services to hard-to-reach areas of the world. This places it in direct competition with Elon Musk’s Starlink network of satellites. Taara now has two dozen staff members and
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