| Today's Top Stories | | #1 | Sony Symphonic Light speaker: combines a lamp and a speaker | | | By Dieter Bonn, The Verge | | | Sony pulled out a small, clever surprise at its CES 2015 keynote. It's called a "Symphonic Light speaker," and it does pretty much what you'd expect it to. It's a tower-shaped lamp with a speaker at the base, and it actually looks really well-designed. More»
Why This Matters: The light bulb glass is the tweeter. –Cynthia Wisehart |
| | #2 | Rohinni's LED lightpaper is incredibly thin and printable | | | By Tyler Hayes, Fast Company | | | How would you use light if it was paper-thin and could be applied to any surface anywhere? Rohinni has developed a form of what it calls Lightpaper. It's a way to print lighting and apply it to nearly any surface, in any shape, and for any situation. More»
Why This Matters: While we're on light…This is more progress on the road to a time when light can essentially be painted onto a ceiling. –Cynthia Wisehart |
| | #3 | Someone brought a giant shell of silence to CES | | | By Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge | | | I'd just taken a seat inside of Selentium's Comfort-Shell — what it refers to as a literal cone of silence. Shell is a better way of referring to it, because it basically looks like a giant, white version of those spiky shells that Lakitu throws in the original Mario. There are four microphones hidden on the outside of the shell, listening to the sound around it. That noise is then inverted and played back to the inside of the shell to cancel everything out, resulting in a nice, quiet little bubble, even amid a noisy crowd. More»
Why This Matters: Oh it's nowhere near even Mario-level cool-looking. It looks like a giant hemi-spherical golf ball (as in goof ball). Still, whilst sheltered in this acoustical Snuggie, you supposedly can still clearly hear voices, make phone calls, and listen to elevator music. Which honestly, if they had one at NAB I would live in it. However, there's one downside on the silence front-- it makes a loud noise that adds to the din for everybody else. So it's good if you're selfish. –Cynthia Wisehart |
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