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KFC South Africa Lets Customers Listen To Music Using Bone Conduction
An anonymous reader writes: The end of annoying restaurant muzak may be nigh: A KFC branch in South Africa has put together a playlist of local artists for diners to enjoy — so long as they do so in silence. The in-shop broadcasts can only be heard using bone conduction as a speaker — diners put their elbows on the table and cup their ears if they want to hear the tunes.
Food's just sitting on the table while I cup my hands over my ears to hear the hit tune. I hope the next song is a crappy one so I can put down my hands and eat my quickie-meal
Surely any kind of diaphragm or sounding board placed on the spots would become speakers, or am I missing something?
I thought the purpose of restaurant "muzak" was to provide some degree of audio privacy between tables.
Had no clue that KFC owned South Africa. Takes a lot of crispy chicken to buy an entire country.
I thought you had to put chicken bones in your ears.
By posting that, you've posted more jokes than any one post could contain.
The africans already have a bone thru their nose.
Might as well make use of it.
listening to vuvuzela this way may cause minor fractures.
Hitting two bones together, that's how they make music over there..
We need to come up with an even more ridiculous, stupid looking way to get people to sit right next to each other, yet ignore each other completely.
Tried one. Honestly, it didn't work that well.
Note for pedants: Yes. I know the ad is from 1980 and that the referenced patent expired long before now. You can silently thank me for saving you from a ranting response. And by "silently", I mean without responding. Even though posting the text could be considered silent. Unless someone has a reader. Or... Never mind. Rant away.
...which is basically creating a Streisand effect, and since she's jewish it'll lead to jokes about jews... which is basically anti-semitism... which leads to NAZI jokes... which leads to Mel Brooks... who is jewish, but also makes black people jokes, which leads back to KFC, which leads back to South Africa... which leads to .. Kevin Bacon... Why Kevin Bacon you ask...? ...because all roads lead to Kevin Bacon eventually.
Thank you.
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writes about that which he loves.
Turns out Freud was right.
Yes you are. There are no sound at all (or sound waves to be technical). It is basically just small vibrations that travels through your bones in your body, which your ears actually think is sound and then... magically you can hear! I guess you have to experience it to fully appreciate it. (I once was introduced to a phone for old people that used the same technology and it really works.) ps. Real sound actually also convert to small vibrations in your head before your brain interprets it, so this is just skipping the conversion step. Hope this helps :)
I appreciate that there aren't any sound waves at the table. But would the vibrations not use the cup as a sounding board? ie Vibrations --> cup --> cup base vibrates --> soundwaves? A speaker after all is just a driver vibrating a sound board of some description.
I would assume that the frequency of the vibrations wouldn't be able to change across medium, otherwise the sound would change. The magnitude however may be too small to convert to airborne sound waves loud enough to hear.
Ah I see what you mean :) Yes that makes sense and I guess it will work, but as you said the magnitude might be too small to be audible.
One of the first rules of dining etiquette is to keep your elbows off the table.
couldn't resist...
A Freudian slip is when you talk about one thing, but mean your mother.
There are no sound at all (or sound waves to be technical)
Technically, any basic compression wave in a medium is a sound wave, so there are sound waves in the table, even if originally driven as a transverse wave. To sidestep the bone conduction, it is just a matter of how well it couples to air to be heard, and that can change greatly by placing different objects in contact with the table (e.g. like a cup...).
If you like fried chicken and loud thumping music.
Perhaps add some crack cocaine for dessert and a certain group of
what I will generously call "people" would flock to this restaurant.
It is basically just small vibrations that travels through your bones in your body
Anything that is vibrating while within the atmosphere is making sound by definition.
"His name was James Damore."
I'll wait for chicks with boner music .
Anything with compressional density waves is potentially sound by definition, regardless of if it is in an atmosphere or not, and this includes liquids, solids and plasmas, but depends on what field you're in. However, not every vibration would be sound, as transverse waves, surface waves, and waves involving properties other than density provide a whole zoo of waves in materials like solids and plasmas.
There are no sound at all (or sound waves to be technical). It is basically just small vibrations that travels through your bones in your body, which your ears actually think is sound and then... magically you can hear!
Vibrations in the audible range are sound even if the medium isn't air.
Amazing proof of hearing without our ears. I have been preaching about how we "hear" is actually just highly refined vibration sensing using our entire body and how we sense things spatially, dimensionally , and texturally in ways that the math behind sound is barely even detecting.
The current math behind sound leaves us with MP3 as the most popular format and horrible players everywhere because the math is so horribly inaccurate (or at best very incomplete). The incomplete math joins forces with highly flawed ABX audio test to form a potent stew of ignorance. We all can fall for the seduction of mainstream convenience, but it's always better to take your own journey to find quality in the things you love best.
I'm unable to reconcile "cup hands over ears" with "finger lickin' good".
... since I wear a bone conduction hearing aid since I was born mostly deaf (no ear holes and canals).
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
...put their elbows on the table and cup their eyes if they want to imagine that they are eating chicken.