Disney’s Ishin-Denshin Project Makes An Audio Transmitter Of Your Finger-Tip
Disney’s Ishin-Denshin Project is something where audio could be beamed person-to-person via a simple touch. Huge win for the electronics segment, no? Indeed is! Disney Research has nicknamed their project after a Japanese mantra that means "what the mind thinks, the heart transmits." In other words, they've just created a medium of communication that's way more intimate than a silent whisper in the recipient's ear. Here, the technology that's at play transmits a high voltage, low power sound from one person's body to another. The setup has been developed at Disney Research Pittsburgh by Yuri Suzuki, Olivier Bau and Ivan Poupyrev.
From what Disnet demonstrates [VIDEO below], a woman mouths words in a microphone and goes into a silent stance. The sounds are then captured by a computer, and a loop is created which is sent to an amplification driver. The looped sound now is inaudible, and is retransmitted to the metal casing in the microphone. The woman now has that audio "installed" into her body, and this process continues as long as she's holding the microphone. Now when she moves away to touch her partner on the ear, the audio gets transmitted to her partner. This happens because the finger and ear combine to form a speaker, and the vibrations translate into audible sound which the other person can now hear. Jaw-dropping serious stuff!
The experiment opens quite a many avenues where certain sounds could be absorbed and transmitted into more meaningful codes. Touching peoples' ear all the time may not be appropriate, considering all those places, but at a personal level this feels just great. With Disney having stridden great lengths in robotics and other fun research recently, it'd be great to see how the Ishin-Denshin project evolves.
From what Disnet demonstrates [VIDEO below], a woman mouths words in a microphone and goes into a silent stance. The sounds are then captured by a computer, and a loop is created which is sent to an amplification driver. The looped sound now is inaudible, and is retransmitted to the metal casing in the microphone. The woman now has that audio "installed" into her body, and this process continues as long as she's holding the microphone. Now when she moves away to touch her partner on the ear, the audio gets transmitted to her partner. This happens because the finger and ear combine to form a speaker, and the vibrations translate into audible sound which the other person can now hear. Jaw-dropping serious stuff!
The experiment opens quite a many avenues where certain sounds could be absorbed and transmitted into more meaningful codes. Touching peoples' ear all the time may not be appropriate, considering all those places, but at a personal level this feels just great. With Disney having stridden great lengths in robotics and other fun research recently, it'd be great to see how the Ishin-Denshin project evolves.
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Sarathkumar ChandrasekaranIshin-Denshin project is quite astonishing. This could be the best way to transmit secret messages and the working seems complicated. -
Jeffrey ArulrajNot so private mate
The women has to speak first into the microphone and the spoken word has to travel to a computer
There we have a loop hole which can be manipulated However we want -
Sarathkumar Chandrasekaran
but the idea seems great.Suggest me the applications of this projectJeffrey SamuelNot so private mate
The women has to speak first into the microphone and the spoken word has to travel to a computer
There we have a loop hole which can be manipulated However we want -
Jeffrey Arulraj
Application wise I am sure data Security will increaseSarathKumar Chandrasekaranbut the idea seems great.Suggest me the applications of this project
SO ATM's other passwords can be inputed by this tech
Transferring ideas from one person to another without any actual words being spoken in that place -
mukhil mayuriwhats with the high amplitude and low power in the transmitted signal??
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Ankita KatdareThis is unbelievably awesome. The other day I was standing near two HUGE speakers and the vibrations it was emitting were so scary large that it made me think - why we aren't using the sound energy's full potential. (Pardon my ignorance on the topic). And then I came home to read this news. It converts sound energy into electrical energy so that when you whisper into a microphone, an electrostatic field is created. Awesome-some!
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Jeffrey Arulraj
More power will mean really a painful experience for the listener So we go for higher amplitude signals and not high power signalmukhil mayuriwhats with the high amplitude and low power in the transmitted signal??
If power is high you will feel a sort of shock by the by. -
Rohit NairIts really a great thought...... but i didnt understand how the sound is getting inaudible????? wats the concept behind that????
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Jeffrey ArulrajSimple higher amplitude and lesser power
If it has to be audible in a longer range power has to be more
Rohit NairIts really a great thought...... but i didnt understand how the sound is getting inaudible????? wats the concept behind that????
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