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Material Turns All Surfaces into Stereo

Posted by samzenpus on from the listen-to-anything dept.

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."

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  1. Now all surfaces by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    will be nigger boomboxes. Lame.

    1. Re:Now all surfaces by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      The last thing any of us wants is that Snoopy Dog or Dentist Dre or whatsit ruining my fucking bus ride to work in the morning.

      BTW I take the bus because I'm eco-friendly. I could easily afford a Lexus or Chevrolet.

  2. Integrate it with sheetrock by willbry · · Score: -1, Troll
    Every room will be jamming.

    http://williambryson.blogspot.org/

  3. Intelligent question regarding sound technology by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Would it be possible to use this to play nigger-music at high volume in a car? If so, I'm against it. We have enough surfaces capable of that already.

  4. Stop, colleberate and listen! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hammertime!

  5. Wonderful by Asshat_Nazi · · Score: -1, Troll

    More surfaces for niggers to blast their coon-tunes.

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  6. Great for the ghetto beach cruzer! by Asshat_Nazi_v2.0 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Trunks rattling, spinnerz spinnin', niggers bouncing, niggers stinkin'. Yea, this is bad.

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    heads on! apply directly to the forehead!
  7. Most options for loud nigger music by Fruity+McGayGay · · Score: -1, Troll

    speaking of niggers.. They walk around constantly grabbing their dicks. Why is that? Are they secretly scratching at their venereal diseased cocks? Or, are they just trying to imitate their ape ancestors?

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    total fag. you're a bitch. fruity mcgaygay

    it's raining men!!!
  8. Re:Surfacesound doesn't care about black people! by Datamonstar · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh, and I forgot to stay on topic and mention how 3 quadrillion dollar would help me do my mansion in wall-to-wall surfacesound.. or negrosound. Whichever one's cheaper.

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    The eternal struggle of good vs. evil begins within one's self.
  9. The heck with headphones and a suit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I want them to make me a cocksock of that stuff!