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Projecting Sound 'Inside Your Head'

Gregus writes "Projecting 'hypersonic sound' has appeared here before, but NY Times Magazine (FRRYYY) has an in-depth article with its lauded inventor and its applications. John Anderton, you could use a Guinness right now." Plus this story includes screwing with Mall Walkers!

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  1. Relief by Ken@WearableTech · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's good to know that I'm not crazy and someone has been telling me to start those fires...

    1. Re:Relief by TobiasSodergren · · Score: 5, Funny

      Oh, finally an explanation for why J Lo is selling records. The military must be buying it.

  2. Oh joy! by GMontag · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yea, great, mucic for the voices i my head to sing along with. Quite badly I might add.

  3. wow by Miguel+de+Icaza · · Score: 4, Funny

    its not a dupe, its an echo ;)

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    Before adopting WHATWG, read the moonlight.NET EULA [http://www.microsoft.com/interop/msnovellcollab/moonlight.mspx]
  4. Tasteless by Linux-based-robots · · Score: 4, Funny
    Plus this story includes screwing with Mall Walkers!

    Ok this is a new low for the NY Times, using pr0n to attract readers. I mean, how horny do you think we are?

  5. Re:This is scary.. by Linux-based-robots · · Score: 5, Funny

    You fool! Don't spill the beans! I have enough problems with popup ads already!

  6. Watch out guys.. by wikkiewikkie · · Score: 4, Funny

    "transmitting" sound to other people? Sounds like a copyright circumvention device to me.

  7. Just wait... by }InFuZeD{ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Till some artist thinks its funny and puts a recording of fingernails on a chalkboard on their CD... and projects that sound inside your head.

  8. Re:Scary applications by Dyolf+Knip · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, if everyone there is being subjected to that kind of nonsense, including cops, how long would it take for them to find the transmitters and tear them apart?

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    Dyolf Knip
  9. tinfoil hats by drayzel · · Score: 5, Funny

    For those that looked at me funny while I was wearing my tin foil hats: Apolgies will be accepted in verbal and written form from 6AM to 11:30PM.

    Your apologies will be accompanied the cursory "I told you so"

    ~Z

  10. Re:Huh? by ComputarMastar · · Score: 4, Funny
    One truly harrowing noise is that of a baby crying, played backward, and combined with another tone
    Does anyone happen to have heard this one? What's so freaky about it?
    They don't mention that the other "tone" is a Britney Spears song.
  11. Reminds Me Of That One Futurama... by Cyno01 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fry: So you're telling me they broadcast commercials into people's dreams?

    Leela: Of course.

    Fry: But, how is that possible?

    Farnsworth: It's very simple. The ad gets into your brain just like this liquid gets into this egg. [He holds up an egg and injects it with liquid. The egg explodes.] Although in reality it's not liquid, but gamma radiation.

    Fry: That's awful. It's like brainwashing.

    Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?

    Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!

    --
    "Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
  12. *Waves hands* by baywulf · · Score: 4, Funny

    "These are not the droids you were looking for."

  13. Re:I saw this on CNN a while back by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 4, Funny

    It seems like all great inventers have started as being considered a "crack pot"

    The thing is, crackpots are also considered crackpots. The trick is in telling the difference.

    Myself, I play the odds. The crackpots outnumber the geniuses by such an astounding margin, I just assume that anybody who sounds like a crackpot, is.

    If this is connected to a set of satalites and beamed down very loud music or just a shrill note, somebody could become very powerful, very fast.

    Now, see what I'm talking about? This is exactly the kind of thing that makes you sound like a crackpot.

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    I write in my journal
  14. Re:This is scary.. by Zaak · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't think earplugs would block it. It sounds like the sound is transmitted using hypersonic frequencies, and only becomes audible once it hits something, like.. your head. From there, bone transmission takes over, and plugging your ears won't do a thing.

    *Hello, friend.*

    Who's that?

    *I'd like to make you an offer you can't ignore.*

    Where are you? I can't see you.

    *Now, for a limited time only, you can buy our exclusive AD BLOCKER equipment for just $49.95*

    Aahhh! I'm going insane!

    *Remember, AD BLOCKER contains Tuning INterference Frequency Overriding Impedence Level Helmet Addition Technology for improved AD BLOCKING!*

    Help me!

    TTFN