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Acoustic Superlens Built From Soda Cans
Freddybear writes "Researchers in France have assembled an acoustic superlens from an array of soda cans. The cans act as resonators, and by exciting the array with tailored sound waves, the sound volume can be made to peak in specific volumes less than a few centimeters wide."
Why can't we have more articles about comic book movies, video games, political partisanship and trading music in the name of human rights instead of this garbage?
Oh, can it, you.
The more you know, the more you have to say and the more you should listen.
Given the idea of directing sound waves, if this could be done with an inaudible frequency, for imaging, would sound waves be able to penetrate clothing?
This is coming from someone who is not modest, so the scope part of the scope&grope doesn't bother me.
Radiation, however, is one of my many, only weaknesses.
Something witty.
Beer doesn't come in cans.
If the masses can keep you down, you're not the Ubermensch.
As I read it, you could make the music appear very loud in the neighbor's apartment above you, while barely noticeable in your own.
Milk comes in jugs or bags. Or jugs that eventually become bags.
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
Until someone accidentally says "Muad-dib!" through the array and something explodes.
Mind the frickin' laser...