Coming up - Flying data , electronic mails, chats

• Posted by T Ghosh January 31, 2014 - Filed in Technology - #mobile  #float  #email  #chats  - 1,651 views

  

  Well say email , phone messages , tweets are flying above the head like birds  . Sounds like science fiction? Well then face the reality !

  In Infact it is achievable !
  
  Scientific Researchers of Technical University of Berlin, Germany, developed an audio-enabled space called 'BoomRoom' where one can reach  through your messages using sound wave technology.
  
   'BoomRoom' comprises of a ring of 56 loudspeakers that direct sound wave  to stationary and mobile positions, creating sound that is audible.
  
  Emails and tweets could fly around you like a flock of birds, each chirping a subtly different sound that identifies the sender.
  
  More urgent messages whizz could directly over the head and if one touches any, a computer would read it out, 'New Scientist' reported.
  
  An array of 16 gesture-recognising cameras allows you to control what those sounds do. A music track, for instance, could be assigned to an object in the room such as a vase.
  
  To play the track you simply pick up the vessel and "pour out" a track in mid air. Gestures such as moving your hands apart or bringing them together can alter qualities like volume, treble and bass.
  
  "The instruments exist in mid-air so you can do your own sound mixing," said Jorg Muller whose team developed the 'BoomRoom' alongside Sascha Spors of the University of Rostock, Germany.
  
  The 'BoomRoom' works on a technique developed at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands called wave field synthesis (WFS).
  
  This constructs a 3D sound field by cancelling and reinforcing sound waves in much the same way as a hologram does with light waves.
  
  The trick is to use an algorithm that controls the speakers precisely and uses constructive and destructive interference of the sound waves to place sounds where they are wanted, moment by moment.
  
  Therw would be a  future smart room for people who are blind or sight-impaired, Muller said.
  
  If a blind person entered a room, the important objects inside could announce their location. Users could also leave messages for one another in mid-air to be read out by a computer.