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LCD Screens Double as Speakers
An anonymous reader writes "The BBC has a story about a company who has developed an LCD screen that can produce sound as well. They claim that the sound quality is quite good, and compare it to average multimedia computer speakers. Also NEC is making and selling computers that use this technology in Japan. Hardware integration like this should make for some interesting appliances in the next few decades."
Average multimedia speakers?
Ugh.
The real-life prostitute business will never be able to compete with online porn now.
not more than staring in to goatse, bisht
to slashdot. the story selection's taken a hit. This is the 4th story about screen/speaker hybrids I've seen on this site. Meanwhile, they're refusing to post a new cool story, about the Japanese professor with the quasi-invisibility cloak. And every other day, there's some scam crap on here like faster-than-light stuff. Where will we go after slashdot becomes completely crappy?
...the lcd's were touchscreen.
:-/
[john doe]: *touch touch touch*
[lcd screen]: dammit, stop touching me! you're smooshing my liquid crystals!
or... well.. need i mention the possibilites for multi-sensory interactivity the pr0n world....
granted, this could be possible now... i mean.. sound card and speakers do a fine job on their own.. but...
yeah.. i forgot where i was going with this.
damn. i need more coffee.
happy monday.
~ fuzz
http://www.digifuzz.net
Story here. Neat stuff. :)
'I never want to hear that sound again'
Five British soldiers have died under 'friendly fire'. Yesterday as General Richard Myers apologised for the three deaths caused by the US, saying it would be his 'quest' to ensure it did not happen again, the first full account emerged of the tragic incident in which a A-10 tankbuster fired on two British armoured vehicles
Audrey Gillan with the Household Cavalry in Iraq
Monday March 31, 2003
The Guardian
They will never forget the sound of the guns. A cross between a moan and a roar, a fierce rattling of heavy rounds of 30mm canon fire from two A10 Thunderbolts flying low overhead. Aircraft that shouldn't have been in the British-controlled area, "cowboying" at just 500ft and looking for something to have a crack at. Last Friday morning, two American pilots turned their guns on a convoy of five British vehicles from the Household Cavalry, killing one man just three days shy of his 26th birthday, injuring four others and wiping out two armoured reconnaissance vehicles from the squadron's Two Troop. Two Iraqi civilians, waving a large white flag, were also killed.
Coloured smoke signs were sent up to indicate that they were friendly troops but it didn't stop the attack. The planes came back a second time, seriously injuring those who had managed to scramble out of their vehicles with only superficial wounds. The gunner, Corporal Matty Hull, however, was the victim of a direct hit into his gun turret.
The men in the Scimitars were screaming over the radio "stop the friendly fire, we are being engaged by friendly fire" and "pop smoke, pop smoke". The forward air controller, who liaises with coalition air forces to bring in fire missions, was shouting "check fire, check fire". Frantic calls were made to 16 Air Assault Brigade headquarters to find out what was going on. But no one seemed to know.
The A10s were about to take a third swing when they were told by the American air patroller working with the Household cavalry to stop firing.
Instead of providing air cover while helicopters came in to evacuate the casualties, they baled out.
The attack took place within the Household Cavalry's battlefield control line which means that everything in the air should be controlled by them and their embedded American air controller. The A10s were well out of their area and the matter is now being investigated amidst calls from some of the British troops that the pilots be prosecuted for manslaughter.
So far in this conflict, Britain has suffered more casualties from friendly fire, five, than from assaults by the Iraqis.
That morning's plan had been to use artillery, air and helicopter strikes against Iraqi positions in order to secure the area for future operations. D Squadron is an armoured reconnaissance unit and their job is to move in first and secure locations before other troops move in.
You could hear the battle over the radio, with the guns rattling down the airwaves. The squadron leader's Spartan vehicle narrowly missed a hit by two mortars, a procedure known as bracketing. The whistling and explosion cannot be heard in these vehicles but the tremor of the earth could.
The two Scimitars had been probing a road, checking for landmines, enemy locations, assault batteries.
At this point, Two Troop was given orders to move forward. Squadron leader Richard Taylor said: "I remember saying 'move quickly through the urban area, as we will be vulnerable from civilians, make best speed, good luck'. I don't think I will be wishing anyone good luck again."
Ears pricked up as shouting came over the radio. At first it seemed like someone had just lost their rag. Then the full horror dawned. One of the vehicles had been hit, no two, and by "friendly call signs".
Manslaughter
They stood still, stopping what they were doing. At first they thought it was one lad, then another. Whoever it was, it didn't ease the twist of knots that started knitting themselves in their stomachs. Later, they learned it was Matty Hull, who aside from being a gunner wa
I usually back off when i hear the word multimedia
Multimedia is so 1995....
It's the taste of a tiny 14", IBM Aptiva, Windows 95, 2X CD-ROM, SoundBlaster and that new interactive "Internet-thing". *Shrug*
Melius mori in libertate quam vivere in servitute.
A speaker manufacturer has developed a speaker that can produce moving pictures as well. They claim that the picture quality is quite good, and compare it to average computer flat screen. Also NEC is making and selling computers that use this technology in Japan. Hardware integration like this should make for some interesting appliances in the next few decades.
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