Material Turns All Surfaces into Stereo

An anonymous reader writes "According to James Bullen of NXT, 'The UK ministry of defense was experimenting with a way to dampen the sound in helicopters and developed a honeycombed material that did the opposite — conducted sound.' Cambridge-based NXT christened it "SurfaceSound" and arranged for it to be crafted into Toyota cars, Gateway computers, Hallmark greeting cards and more. NXT is working on ways to put the technology to use in touch screens that promise to be part of a new rage in 'natural interfaces' for computers, mobile telephones, televisions and other electronic devices. Toyota has SurfaceSound in the head liners of four of its car models. NXT recently made a deal with greeting card giant Hallmark to use the technology in 'big cards with big sound' when opened, Bullen said."

Comments

Re:Demolition

[slawo]

42

Re:won't someone think of the basers?

[complete loony]

I thought plan B was The Name Game followed by the Macarena.

Re:won't someone think of the basers?

[rant64]

http://xkcd.com/368/
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The red switch

Hm...

[darkhitman]

So now we can make all the surfaces in a car into speakers? That would certainly make this more effective...