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One-Way Sound Walls Proven Possible

Posted by Soulskill on from the good-sound-walls-make-good-neighbors dept.

disco_tracy writes "Imagine a room where a band is playing. Neighbors can't hear the music, but if someone outside the room is talking, the musicians can hear it. The concept — a kind of one-way mirror for sound — seems imaginary, but two Italian scientists recently pushed this kind of sound manipulating technology closer to reality (abstract)."

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  1. Band... by Joce640k · · Score: 4, Funny

    Imagine a room where a band is playing. Neighbors can't hear the music, but if someone outside the room is talking, the musicians can hear it.

    They can't be a very good band if they can hear somebody talking in the next room while they're playing...

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    1. Re:Band... by Abstrackt · · Score: 5, Funny

      Imagine a room where a band is playing. Neighbors can't hear the music, but if someone outside the room is talking, the musicians can hear it.

      They can't be a very good band if they can hear somebody talking in the next room while they're playing...

      Do you have any idea how hard it is to find an amp for an air guitar?

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  2. Re:Really necessary? by Conspiracy_Of_Doves · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Where would we be if people were happy with what they had? There's probably all kinds of situations, and even new inventions, that could use this that we can't even think of at the moment.

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  3. Re:Huh? by Garble+Snarky · · Score: 5, Funny

    Time division multiplexing.

  4. Re:Really necessary? by SQLGuru · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This would be material based and not require additional power?

    It would be great for those baby-rooms they used to have in movie theaters. The people inside could hear the movie without the audience hearing the screaming kid.

  5. Re:Wave diode applicable to light? by Garble+Snarky · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I believe one-way mirrors are completely dependent on highly disparate levels of light between the two regions. This paper describes a totally different physical mechanism.

  6. Washington DC's been surrounded by this for years. by bareman · · Score: 5, Funny

    We can hear the idiots inside but they don't seem to be able to hear us.

  7. This makes for by twentynine · · Score: 4, Insightful

    a better masturbation chamber...