Disney researchers propose a novel means of passing audio messages around-- a microphone one can whisper recordings into before transmission by simply touching the potential listener's earlobe.
Dubbed Ishin-Denshin (after the Japanese concept of unspoken understanding, translated as “what the mind thinks, the heart transmits"), the technology uses less of telepathy and more of the magic of electricity. The microphone actually encodes sounds into a high voltage, low current electrical signal, one able to modulate an electrostatic field around the speaker's body, charging them.
A touch from the charged person on another's earlobe vibrates the ear slightly, creating a "speaker" allowing them (and only them) to listen to the message.
All the speakers feature updated technology and improved audio performance via new aluminium driver, all within a distinctive spherical design.
Reportedly aimed at the "stylish traveler," the Esquire speaker acts as a teleconferencing system as well as a loudspeaker. It features "custom tuned" microphones armed with noise-cancellation technology for hands-free conference calls, as well as dual drivers and built-in bass port for quality sound.
The speakers carry redesigned drivers, including a smaller 6.5-inch woofer (the Model T carries an 8-inch version) promising "startling" musicality from a more compact form factor together with a 3-inch midrange driver and a 1-inch tweeter in a 3-way configuration. .
According to Boulder the only parts the 2110 Premplifier shares with its 2010 predecessor are the front panel buttons and volume control disk. Everything else is redesigned, including a fully isolated 4-chassis design for the left audio, right audio, logic/user interfaces and standby/power-on, and microprocessor support for the standby function.
