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Flat, Flexible, and Loud

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No it’s not food foil for you to wrap your leftovers in. This is the groundbreaking new development of engineers in the University of Warwick. Pioneered by the university’s spin-off company Warwick Audio Technologies, this is a revolutionary breakthrough in terms of audio equipment development. It’s lightweight, very flexible, only 0.25mm thick, and produces a very accurate resonance in terms of sound.

Since it’s flexible, it can go very well in places where box speakers will unlikely fit. You can simply hang this on a wall, place it inside car doors, put alongside promotional posters — with something as handy as this, the possibilities become endless.

The sound technology behind the FFL, or Flat Flexible Loudspeaker (the name can use a little more marketing ploy, I know) is perfect as a PA system. Because of the way it’s able to generate sound waves, these flexi-speakers are perfect for resonating above a large crowd.

We might not see this on the consumer level anytime soon, but at least we won’t be taken aback if a movie poster suddenly talks back to us.

New Airport Security – “Behavioral Screening”

Security Lines at the Airport

With the heightened security at airports the amount of time it takes to go through security has also become heightened. Long lines, tedious searches, and unrealistic specifications to what one can carry aboard the airlines maybe a thing of the past.
The technology being investigated right now would create a security system that would alert someone if the passengers behavior emit emotional strain. It could take as quick as 10-20 seconds, by introducing a subliminal stimuli such as an image of Osama Bin Laden or the Arabic words “Islamic jihad”, then monitoring heart rate, body temperature, and respiration can produce the perfect terrorist screening process. Created with a combination of infra-red technology, remote sensors, and imagers this maybe the answer to airport efficiency and put an end to airline terrorist.
Profiling is difficult and can be deceiving, racial, sexual, and religious profiling are all so combined these days that is almost impossible to pick out the “bad guys”. This new type of detection brings a whole new light to profiling. This technology has the ability to be completely undetected by passengers, they step onto a “smart carpet” or sit in a “smart seat” filled with hidden biometric sensors and gaze into a “check-in screen” and are profiled. Security is immediately alerted and the possible threat is removed and completely investigated.

There are several companies trying to develop this technology and get it into use. WeCU has received grants from the Transportation Security Administration within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to produce a system that will pinpoint behavioral profiled threats. The Orwellian-sounding startup has developed a system that detects a passengers intentions by scanning each step. And many other ideas and companies are jumping on this new innovative technology. We can only hope that this is truly the answer to overcrowded airport lines and terrorist threats aboard our airlines in one fail swoop.

 

 

 

Alarm Clock Projector

Despite besetting us with many technological gadgets that would make us even more lazier, inventors around the world are still providing is more and more ways to keep us going.

Waking up is one of the most dreadful, if not difficult, task that we are facing everyday. We have to wrestle with the loveliness of sleeping while its still dark and cold.

To answer this, alarm clocks are now fast evolving and included in their new genre is the Alarm Clock Time Projector. It is a 12/24 hour clock, with an alarm, and the ability to project the time onto most surfaces.

Now when you wake up to your alarm, no need to twist and turn to confirm the time, with a push of a button, you can stay lying in bed viewing the time on the ceiling, or on a wall.

No need to lift a finger when you want to know what time is it.

Product Features:

  • 12/24 Hour Clock
  • Alarm
  • Time Projector
  • Requires 3x AA batteries

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