Pinholes and Plastic Wrap Make Solid Walls "Transparent" To Sound

First time accepted submitter benonemusic writes "Researchers have devised a means of making sound transmit easily through rigid surfaces, including walls. The process relies on creating small holes on a wall, and covering them on one side with a thin covering made from plastic wrap."

Comments

Thank god the research is finally paying off

[Anonymous Coward]

Fantastic, now we have walls that sound like they aren't even there. What's next, ovens that are just as hot on the outside as they are on the inside?

Re:Thank god the research is finally paying off

[NatasRevol]

Those well engineers suck at building walls.

As an apartment dweller

[sl4shd0rk]

It would be nice to use plastic wrap to make walls impenetrable by sounds of penetration.

Re:As an apartment dweller

[master5o1]

If she doesn't make a sound, you're not doing it right.

FTFY.

New NSA-Approved Building Code

[justthinkit]

New NSA-Approved Building Code

Re:New NSA-Approved Building Code

[Anonymous Coward]

I believe this building technique has already been used on my apartment building...

Re:And in other news...

[lxs]

It's like that very old joke: Earlier today researchers announced the invention of a device that makes it possible to see through brick walls. They have named this contraption a "window."

Finally

[ArcadeMan]

Spying gear for Bond. Amish Bond.

Re:Why would you do this

[WillgasM]

If only there was an article enumerating possible applications of this technology.

Re:Why would you do this

[Anonymous Coward]

How nasty could it be? That baby was all up in that not too long ago.