Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering Research 3D Sound Cloak Technology

Those nutters at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering have come out of their labs to inform us that 3D sound cloaking technology is theoretically possible. What the F is 3D sound cloaking? Well, it seems that using special acoustic material would “essentially open up a hole in space and make something inside that hole disappear from sound waves.” The announcement almost a year after the same group built a...

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Alienware’s New Widescreen Monitor Has Serious DAW Potential

Alienware is showcasing a new curved DLP computer display at CES with a 2880 x 900 screen resolution. The monitor is only a prototype, but the DLP display with LED illumination has incredible potential for Digital Audio Workstations when it bows sometime in the fall of 2008. Alienware claims that the curvature of display simulates peripheral vision for total immersion. Obviously this is targeted at the gaming market, but we...

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