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Israeli company invents device that beams audio directly into your head - no headphones required
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No it would not, nothing is actually being beamed into your head.
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From my understanding the sound that is being put near your ears is being reconstructed only in those areas, everything else is just a bunch of nothin which is why others wouldn't be able to hear it.
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Does this mean that if you stand between the device and the intended target, you can intercept the sound?
Yes and no
You would block the sound or at least impact the quality for the listener, but you would not be able to hear it as it's calibrated based on the head tracking.
Remember that one U.S. Cuban embassy incident where everyone working there practically had their brains melted from a far distance from a device that works similar to this?
But this isn't actually beaming anything into peoples head though
It's ultrasound in transit, meaning it won't be audible if you mean "intercept" in that sense, though you can generally block ultrasound with solid objects, yes.
So, just some basic acoustics for everyone's benefit:
When sound waves overlap one another in space, there's three things that can happen based on their amplitude, frequency, and phase:
1. They pass through each other with little to no contact, existing in the same space simultaneously.
2. They collide with each other in a way that distorts and generally weakens both waves (destructive interference).
3. They combine with each other in a way that amplifies the sound wave in question (constructive interference).
Ultrasound is normally inaudible to humans but by projecting multiple sources of ultrasound into the same point in space, you can cause the sound waves to overlap and create an audible sound through interference patterns in the waves. This isn't really a "beam" (ultrasound is still a soundwave, it's just a much smaller wave due to its extremely high frequency), it's just a soundwave that only becomes audible to humans at a point in space other than where the sound was originally generated.
This entire system is also probably very obnoxious to dogs.
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Microwave Weapons Are Prime Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers (Published 2018)
Doctors and scientists say microwave strikes may have caused sonic delusions and very real brain damage among embassy staff and family members.
There's been dozens of reports and research teams that debunked the use of "weaponry" and another team in China that deduced that it was caused by the accidental placement of both an ultrasonic emitter and ultrasonic jammer in the same area. But there's also a few scientists that think foul play was involved but I'm not about to start googling conspiracy theories for source links.
First time I hear of it, too. But seems like the tech's been there since the 80s, and there have been a few attempts at commercial products
Wikipedia: Sound from ultrasound
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So it doesn't block unwanted noise at the same time? Yeah that's a bit of a down side. Still cool though. I'd definitely like to try it out.
I mean, you don't need to, right? Even with just regular sound, you can hurt someone by just cranking the volume up past a certain dB threshold. So imagine the same thing, but focused on a single target.
This will be useful for when someone forgets to leave a voice server.
Crank the bass waaaay up.
I mean we've had that, this is just a cooler non asshole use of the tech
Might be cool, but audio transplant is too scary. When audio blasts too loud just because of inevitable software bugs I instinctively takes the headphones off. even Apple can't get lose of all the bugs with AirPods
Forgive me if I'm being flippant, I don't fully understand the tech behind it. But what would be preventing anyone from sending a noise directly to your ears? Beaming, audio pockets, or otherwise?
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Sounds terrifyingly. Imagine shopping malls backed by Google data, sending you messages and ads based on locations you've dined at, countries you've visited and entertainment you've consumed.
American evangelicals just invested billions.
"If you pray hard, you can hear the voice of God speaking just to you!!!!"
".... give them more money..."
"If you pray hard, you can hear the voice of God speaking just to you!!!!"
".... give them more money..."
Facial recognition mostly, if you turned sideways even you'd only get 1 ear off audio.
Like I'm not saying this tech can't be used for bad thing, because it already has, this is using the tech in a cool way that doesn't involve war tactics
Ok. In that case, I stand by my point. Like, oh don't worry, you can just turn sideways and only hear it in one ear? Yeah, I hope that this is not utilized by advertisers or other more nefarious users.
If an Iranian company had created this everyone involved would be dead by mysterious limpet mines on their cars already.
