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To: JC Jaros who wrote (1851)	11/23/1999 3:37:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) of 2617

I will now publish JCJ's monster idea for IBM to adopt as their very own. JC's idea is to actually print music on people's skin to be read by fingertips. The fingertip is like a record in that it has all these grooves. The tiny cilia on the epidermis are the needle of the playback device. A computer controls the pattern of motion that reproduces the recorded vibration. Who cares about fidelity when you are having fun? I always wondered about that rotating record thing. It obviously made more sense to keep the record still and rotate the cartridge and tone arm sheesh! And it would have way less wow rumble and flutter. As far as crossover networks and the like, I figure the perfect speaker is air. After all it is the medium that sound is carried on and has to have the perfect characteristics sans "colour". You could get it moving with a laser beam or better still a sound wave .. now why didn't somebody think of that one before? Why not make a surface the shape of the sound wave we wish to reproduce and blow air across it? Fan noise might be a bother, but I am sure it can be worked out. I thought of a tympanic speaker. It consists of 24,000 different tuning forks to cover the audible spectrum. The player selects the right combination of vibrators to activate for the frequency range of the harmonic desired. syncing the crossover would be a hassle but it might appeal to purists. Damping by eddy currents would be the thing. Or we could try water. Just fill up the earphones with water. It would damp out all unwanted vibration and carry sound much further. I don't know about induction though. It might be a problem. I can believe that SONY story. Records that last forever must have scared them good. I am surprised you never heard of Nykwist. He was the fifth Beatle. I havee often thought that if one froze sound in some medium then unfroze it for playback you would have the perfect medium. We observe that during spring in the north were words we said in the winter that got frozen and could not be heard are a veritable springtime cacophony when the temperature allows their retrieval. A possible pure data storage could be achieved if recorded sound were played live into a long tube hung between celestial bodies about 3 days away by light. We could listen to the playback 10 years later. In order to amplify the sound one could just twang the tube to get it vibrating. Another idea would be a membrane covered with many transistors. The membrane would vibrate according to the activation of the transistors. Each 'sistor acts a tiny solenoid. More transistors would be lower frequency. Low intertia and more perfect reproduction of the envelope might be possible. hmmmm.... EC<:-}

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