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Sake Used to Make Wooden Speakers
geeber writes "And you thought Sake was only good with Sushi? Well, think again! IEEE Spectrum has an article on how JVC has used sake to enable making speaker cones out of wood. Wood has a wide frequency response which makes it desirable as a material for speaker cones. However Toshikatsu Kuwahata worked for 20 years trying to make the cones out of wood without cracking. Finally he discovered that soaking the wood in sake (but not whiskey) made the wood pliable enough to form into a speaker cone. So let's raise our glasses and toast those clever engineers as we crank up the volume!"
Hell, sake enables me to make all kinds of things, most of them accessory fluids for my American Standard, but I sure as hell don't get any stinkin' Slashdot articles about them, now, do I. Harrumph.
So I guess the sound really does give you wood.
Si tacuisses philosophus mansisses. If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher.
In other news researchers are using wasabi to implement "Super Bass".
Good. I can't stand underaged drinking.
True story.
...you get to drink the sake while you play with your wood.
...you get to drink the sake while you play with your wood.
I tried for a long time to think of a joke funnier than this quote.
I couldn't, so lets see it one more time.
If they're made of wood, then scientifically speaking they must weigh the same as a duck. And therefore:
They're a witch! Burn them, burn them!
I can't wait to get some of these just to have a friend come over, look at them, and say "Cool! Amish speakers!"
Store with salt