Researchers Make Paper Speakers For LCD TVs

narramissic writes "Engineers at Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) have developed stereo speakers in paper (video) that are are well suited for thin devices like LCD TVs and will be used in cars starting next year. According to an ITworld article, 'The special paper is made by sandwiching thin electrodes that receive audio signals and a prepolarized diaphragm into the paper structure. A special Flexpeaker adapter between the MP3 player and the speaker is used to play music through the paper.' ITRI says it hopes in the coming year to develop a chip that will do away with the adapter and allow people to plug a digital music player directly into the speaker. ITRI is also working on wireless technologies and will show off its first Bluetooth enabled paper speaker in July."

Comments

But are they MONSTER Paper Speakers?

[Anonymous Coward]

MONSTER Paper Speakers are made with the finest trees in the world. You won't hear better sound than from their fine pieces of papyrus.

Dear lord, this is horrible...

[Chyeld]

The goal for the researchers is to be able to mass produce standard poster-size speakers (A2, or 60centimeters by 44cm) costing just US$20 each. Movie makers could then put out posters with soundtrack music or movie highlights emanating from them as people walk by.

Kill me now, please. Just kill me now.

You thought those talking birthday cards were annoying? Just try walking in the mall as all 100,000 posters located in random locations start talking all at once, producing the noise which finally wakens those who must not be named and end reality as we believed it to be.

It could be

[treeves]

Well, it's a great idea ON PAPER, but...

Piezo-electric

[CrAlt]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezoelectric

So they rediscovered the reverse piezoelectric effect and then glued it to some paper.

Wow, I guess the 50 year old earphones on my crystal radio are cutting edge...