Ambarish
Member • Sep 11, 2013
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.
