Scientists have learned how to bend sound. Basically email for conversations.

[Secure Da Bag]

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Consider, for your listening pleasure, the next frontier in sonic miracles: so-called "audible enclaves," where only you can hear a sound without disturbing anyone else in open space — no headphones required.

As developed by a team of researchers at Penn State, whose findings are published as study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, this technology can create pockets of sound isolated from their surroundings that can be targeted at a specific location, potentially picking someone out in the middle of a crowd.

Crucially, the sound waves — specifically, ultrasound waves — used to create the audible enclaves can't be heard along the path they travel and can even be bent to avoid obstacles. Only when they reach their destination are the sound waves picked up by human ears.

"We essentially created a virtual headset," said lead author Jiaxin Zhong, an acoustics researcher at Penn State, in a statement about the work. "Someone within an audible enclave can hear something meant only for them — enabling sound and quiet zones."

As Zhong and coauthor Yun Jing, a Penn State professor of acoustics, explain in an essay for The Conversation, sound waves diffract or spread out as they travel, especially at lower frequencies. That makes containing them difficult.

To sidestep that issue, the researchers use two beams of ultrasound waves — the type used in medical imaging — which vibrate at a frequency way above human hearing as a "carrier for audible sound." That way as they travel, they're silent to human ears and only become audible when they reach their target.

 

[mc_brew]

... we're getting closer and closer to the singularity.......

 

[newworldafro]

1. Probably decades old tech. This shiit ain't just show up in 2025 though....

2. Per #1 is wrong, then the scientist being Chinese just says alot about getting the best folks to do work here regardless of their background.

3. Crazy possibilities both good and bad.

 

[wire28]

This gonna get a lot of people locked up

Did yall hear that someone had to hear that

He’s crazy lock ‘em up

 

[Thurgood Thurston III]

It's gonna be used to send personalized ads directly to your ears.

 

[null]

2. Per #1 is wrong, then the scientist being Chinese just says alot about getting the best folks to do work here regardless of their background.

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[Silver Surfer]

Interesting

 

[KingDanz]

shyt i read about this in a manga, this really here?

 

[Ironman]

This can be very dangerous Hold up

 

[Krs2]

This gonna get a lot of people locked up

Did yall hear that someone had to hear that

He’s crazy lock ‘em up

Theres other more interesting possibilities

It could be easier to spit game at anyone of you have someone / something feeding you what to say and the other person can't hear it


Also kids in school can use to cheat. Damn old nikkas will probably miss out on this shyt

The possibilities

 

[IIVI]

Like 90% of all these discoveries are from Chinese researchers whether from Universities here, in Germany, China itself, etc.

Caltech/NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory main innovator and co-founder is a Chinese Researcher from M.I.T/Caltech as well. They’ve been a significant contributor to American innovation and tech for decades now.

Regarding the discovery, this is basically Mission Impossible:

 

[yardman]

What I plan on telling ashy cacs in Walmart ​

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

everytime science breaches new frontiers

coli brehs are excited, scared, already have a conspiracy for it, superstition or it's a religious omen.

gotta love it.

1. Probably decades old tech. This shiit ain't just show up in 2025 though....

2. Per #1 is wrong, then the scientist being Chinese just says alot about getting the best folks to do work here regardless of their background.

3. Crazy possibilities both good and bad.

you wouldn't be a alex jones disciple if you didn't take the conspiracy angle... always

"they've had this for years, we are now just getting it"

 

[MMS]

... we're getting closer and closer to the singularity.......

could have already happened

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/when-g-d-touches-you-it-hurts.1041456/#post-53173216

 

[hashmander]

Like 90% of all these discoveries are from Chinese researchers whether from Universities here, in Germany, China itself, etc.

This is basically Mission Impossible:

and trump outchea having ICE run around like the gestapo fukking with people on student visas, "accidentally" revoking phd candidates visas. now when schools are recruiting foreign talent they'll be out there like "it won't happen to you, please come. trump won't fukk up your life when you're halfway through the program."