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Tiny Music Player Made from Wire Bridge (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2008, scientists built a loudspeaker made of carbon nanotubes that produced sound and music based on the thermoacoustic effect. Now, a different team of scientists has built a loudspeaker ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (18) | comments 1 feature

New flat flexible speakers might even help you catch planes and trains

(PhysOrg.com) -- A groundbreaking new loudspeaker, less than 0.25mm thick, has been developed by University of Warwick engineers, it's flat, flexible, could be hung on a wall like a picture, and its particular ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 3

Speech Synthesizer Helps Movie Critic

The voices you hear on message services are often created artificially by fitting together short audio snippets from a large library of vocalized words and sounds. Scientists are now moving beyond the older ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Stanford computer scientists find Internet security flaw

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Stanford Security Laboratory create a computer program to defeat audio captchas on website account registration forms, revealing a design flaw that leaves them vulnerable ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 24, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Trumping the trumpets: How audio engineering helps tone down vuvuzela disruption (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Thanks to researchers at the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) at Queen Mary, University of London, anyone watching the World Cup on their computer can now filter out the droning sounds of vuvuzela ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 21, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Playback: 130-year-old sounds revealed

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the early 1880s, three inventors—Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter, collectively making up the Volta Laboratory Associates—brought together their ...

Technology / Other

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 7

Wiretapping Skype calls: virus eavesdrops on VoIP

(AP) -- Some computer viruses have a crude but scary ability to spy on people by logging every keystroke they type. Now hackers and potentially law enforcement have another weapon: a virus that can eavesdrop on voice conversations ...

Technology / Internet

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Samsung Introduced New MP3 Players With Transparent Touch AMOLED Display

Samsung Electronics recently unveiled two MP3 players designed for the media savvy and those concerned with managing their personal well-being.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A virtual Babylonian comeback 2,000 years after disappearence of natives

Almost 2,000 years after its last native speakers disappeared, the sound of Ancient Babylonian is being lined up for an unlikely comeback, in an online audio archive.

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Mogees project delivers haptic symphony (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Creative sound-making is as fluid and changing as it implies, incorporating everything from troupes that bang on every hard surface imaginable to creators of electronic music, to musicians ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast weblog

Improving speed measurements for cars, bullets

While today's law enforcement officers don't wear utility belts full of crimefighting gadgets like Batman, they do rely on a variety of state-of-the-art technologies to do their jobs efficiently and safely. ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Gadgets: Affordable noise-canceling headphones both fit and sound great

When Able Planet sent me a pair of Clear Harmony (NC300B) noise-canceling headphones to test, they included a splitter to compare side-by-side with a pair of any other brand.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 22, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New software tool provides unprecedented searches of sound, from musical riffs to gunshots

Audio engineers have developed a novel artificial intelligence system for understanding and indexing sound, a unique tool for both finding and matching previously un-labeled audio files.

Technology / Software

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Getting families and friends together again, virtually

(PhysOrg.com) -- A fireside chat, sharing photos with granddad, a family get-together to play Monopoly on a Sunday afternoon? Digital media designed for the individual has hastened the demise of collective ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 26, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New paper on ivory-billed woodpecker published

Dr. Michael Collins, Naval Research Laboratory scientist and bird watcher, has published an article titled "Putative audio recordings of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis)" which appear ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0