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Stretchable, Flexible, Transparent Nanotube Speakers

Posted by timothy on from the buzzword-bingo-now-proven-soluble dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Chinese researchers have realised that a sheet of nanotubes behaves like a speaker when you send an audio current through it. The technology opens the way for a range of new versatile speaker systems. A video shows the speakers in action — some are stretched, one has even been sewn into a flag."

7 of 76 comments (clear)

  1. Re:It's True by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    pics or it didn't happen.

  2. Singing or speaking jackets? by lumpenprole · · Score: 2, Funny

    As if ringtones weren't annoying enough. Welcome to hell.

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    1. Re:Singing or speaking jackets? by pushing-robot · · Score: 4, Funny

      There goes a man with his own theme music.

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    2. Re:Singing or speaking jackets? by pavon · · Score: 2, Funny

      And I thought my coworker wore loud shirts now.

  3. Re:Audio wallpaper? by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not when you account for how many Monster cables you'd need

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  4. Re:Who remembers... by boarder8925 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who remembers the self-drying, speaking jacket in Back to the future II?

    Come on, this is Slashdot, man. The right question is, who doesn't?

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  5. Re:Rick Roll of Wallpaper by glittalogik · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ooooh never gonna zip you up
    Never gonna tie you down
    Never gonna twist you round and half-Windsor you
    Never gonna make you crease
    Never gonna say drip-dry
    Never gonna catch in your fly and hurt you!