Invention idea
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What was the thing that was the best thing before sliced bread :eek: The tigress is here :-D
Well, I guess it would be the breadknife :-) -- Ian Darling "The moral of the story is that with a contrived example, you can prove anything." - Joel Spolsky
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Well, that wasn't my idea, but it certainly does a similar job! ;) Since it apparently doesn't matter anymore, here's my idea. (It probably had a higher geek-factor. :-O) There are already systems that can watch a person's eyes (high-end camera auto-focus features, car research equipment, etc.). There are also those neat little speakers that produce two separate signals above the frequency that we can hear, which when they collide produce the audible signal. Combining two similar systems with some intelligent programming, we would have a device that knows exactly where the user's ears are, and can emit a headphone-volume sound that appears right where their ears are. (That would probably provide better stereo effects that the device in the link you mentioned. Hmm...) Oh well, it's still a cool idea! :-D John
"We want to be alone when we hear too many words and we feel alone when it has been a while since anyone has spoken to us." Paul David Tripp -- War of Words -
Well, I guess it would be the breadknife :-) -- Ian Darling "The moral of the story is that with a contrived example, you can prove anything." - Joel Spolsky
Are you sure it wasn't bread? :rolleyes: John
"We want to be alone when we hear too many words and we feel alone when it has been a while since anyone has spoken to us." Paul David Tripp -- War of Words -
Well, that wasn't my idea, but it certainly does a similar job! ;) Since it apparently doesn't matter anymore, here's my idea. (It probably had a higher geek-factor. :-O) There are already systems that can watch a person's eyes (high-end camera auto-focus features, car research equipment, etc.). There are also those neat little speakers that produce two separate signals above the frequency that we can hear, which when they collide produce the audible signal. Combining two similar systems with some intelligent programming, we would have a device that knows exactly where the user's ears are, and can emit a headphone-volume sound that appears right where their ears are. (That would probably provide better stereo effects that the device in the link you mentioned. Hmm...) Oh well, it's still a cool idea! :-D John
"We want to be alone when we hear too many words and we feel alone when it has been a while since anyone has spoken to us." Paul David Tripp -- War of Words -
Ok, many months ago, this little idea popped into my head and I thought it was interesting but not very useful. Now, I'm starting to see discussions skirting on the edges of my idea without actually hitting on it. The idea is basically a private and easy to use speaker system (read that as no headphones, but your office neighbor still doesn't hear it). Now, I know that I can't build it myself (reasons: time, money, know-how). What should I do with it? :confused: It would certainly be workable, but probably be rather expensive initially. John
"We want to be alone when we hear too many words and we feel alone when it has been a while since anyone has spoken to us." Paul David Tripp -- War of WordsThey just had article in Forbes about some inventor with new technology to project very focused beam of sound waves across hundreds of feet !! www.forbes.com/global/2003/0915/108.html[^] Now Hear This Christopher Helman, 09.15.03 A new ultrasound system can zap a laserlike channel of sound over hundreds of feet to just one pair of ears in a crowd--a perfect pitch for marketers. Elwood (Woody) Norris hangs out of a third-floor window of an office building in New York. In his hands is his latest invention, the HyperSonic Sound emitter. Seventy feet away, on the opposite side of Fifth Avenue, two staffers are told to stand and listen. At first we hear only the usual sounds of traffic, then, suddenly, the taxi honks are joined by bird shrieks and gurgling streams of a rain forest. The jungle sounds are so loud that, were they from a conventional loudspeaker, hundreds of pedestrians would be able to hear them.
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Too late! I already posted the idea! :~ John
"We want to be alone when we hear too many words and we feel alone when it has been a while since anyone has spoken to us." Paul David Tripp -- War of Words -
I wonder how long it will take before the DOD realizes this technology could be used to create a concentrated beam of sound capable of disrupting the human nervous system to the point of death ... oh wait, who am I kidding, they're probably funding the research ... :~ D.
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They already did.
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What was the thing that was the best thing before sliced bread :eek: The tigress is here :-D
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Daniel Turini wrote: How I wish I was born before the sliced bread... And I before the toaster to put it in! I wonder what the next snack food/kitchen utility combo will be, so we can get in there first :-) -- Ian Darling "The moral of the story is that with a contrived example, you can prove anything." - Joel Spolsky
Can I interest you in a muffin?[^] ;) :rolleyes: Anna :rose: Homepage | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work. Trouble with resource IDs? Try the Resource ID Organiser Visual C++ Add-In
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Can I interest you in a muffin?[^] ;) :rolleyes: Anna :rose: Homepage | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work. Trouble with resource IDs? Try the Resource ID Organiser Visual C++ Add-In
:laugh: Given the preponderance of USB thingies[^] these days, surely a USB (Talkie) Toaster would in fact be the next big thing? Although I'd probably skip the AI talking routines, and just stick a radio in it, so you get Terry Wogan instead ;p -- Ian Darling "The moral of the story is that with a contrived example, you can prove anything." - Joel Spolsky