One Trick Pony

What a drag. We drove by June’s Mom’s now-uninhabited house this afternoon and walked in to find the kitchen floor under two inches of water. The floors in the living room were buckled up and the carpet was soaked and musty smelling. Turns out that the plastic hose feeding water into the icemaker in the fridge decided to spring a leak. It had probably been dribbling away for close to a week.

We called one of those companies that do nothing but clean up after incidents like this and they quickly sucked up the water, tore up the carpet and hauled in a flotilla of dehumidifiers. We’re going to have to replace a lot of the floor, get new carpeting, and have the place repainted. The silver lining is that this got us off the dime in sprucing the place up and getting it ready for sale. It’s all insured. Still, what a drag.

Remember those personalized ads directed at Tom Cruise as he walked through the mall in Minority Report? I’m not convinced that that will ever happen, but if it does it will require that each person only hears his/her own ads. The technology for that, HyperSonic Sound, is apparently already here!

Why HSS?

There are many reasons. The first and most important is the ability to direct or focus sound into a tight beam, similar to the beam of light from the flashlight described above. No other audio reproduction device available today provides this unique ability. The opportunities for applying this characteristic to the reproduction of sound are limitless. Think about the ability in a museum to direct the narration about a specific display only to the people standing directly in front of it.

Hmmm… imagine what kind of party games you could create if you were able to whisper different things into the ears of each participant simultaneously. Could be interesting.