*****RATHER OFF TOPIC**** Re: a Virtual Audio Display ???
Sorries, but this post is not about Microvision at all, but about another intriguing new technology taht bears an uncanny similarity in some respects to Microvision: it's aimed at doing for audio displays just what Microvision hopes to do for video displays (read the boldtext below and you'll see what I mean). So, I thought "Microvisionaries" just might be keen to hear of it, and perhaps offer valuable advice.
This will be my only post about it on the MVIS thread, and I ask if anyone wishes to respond they will please do so on the other thread Subject 10095, so as not to add to my pollution of this one. I do thank you for your forebearance!
It would be cool though if any of you technologically astute people who have done so well evaluating Microvision, and in fact have persuaded even sceptical me that Microvision is a legitimate breakthrough technology, could check this one out and offer your informed appraisals: Empty Hype, or The Real Deal?
Peace,
Droog
"American Technology" is developing what they describe as a unique new audio technology, that substitutes conventional speakers with miniature ultrasonic emitters. It's received remarkably favourable attention from popular scientific, audio, electronics and business magazines, and won the "1997 Discovery Magazine Award for Technological Innovation" enews.com.
On the other hand, they are a pink-sheets company in "Scam Diego", and their management has been a HUGE RED FLAG, being more-or-less the same crew that drove Norris Communications into the ground. An occasional poster from San Diego on the ATCO thread claims they are a scam. I don't know what to make of them! Yesterday they announced a new President and CEO, which sounds like a plus.
Yesterday's announcement: biz.yahoo.com
Interesting Highlights from this COMPANY PRESS RELEASE:
American Technology Appoints Former Intel and
Rockwell Executive as Chairman and Chief Executive
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 2, 1997--American Technology Corp. (OTCBB:ATCO) announced today that it has appointed Dale Williams, a senior technology executive, as chairman, president and CEO to direct the exploitation of the company's innovative HyperSonic(TM) Sound (HSS(TM)) technology.
HyperSonic Sound is a new technology in sound production that employs ultrasonics in a patents-pending process to produce sound directly in the air. HSS eliminates many forms of distortion and reduces room acoustical effects. It is efficient, uses little space and weight and is cost competitive relative to direct radiating loudspeakers.
The laser-like HSS ultrasonic beam can project the point of audible sound to virtually any listening environment creating many new sound applications impossible with existing speaker technology.
Dale Williams stated: ``I am pleased to have the opportunity to be a part of ATC and its breakthrough HSS technology. Experiencing HSS sound and watching the reaction of leading scientists and industry executives has been exciting to me personally. HSS will bring to the audible sound generation industry what the integrated circuit brought to the personal computer industry, a major paradigm shift in the way sound is produced and enjoyed.
``Accepting the challenge of taking the patent-pending HSS technology to market is very exhilarating. ATC's recently completed financing provides the resources to rapidly develop the company. ATC also has important GPS and aircraft noise cancellation technologies that are very exciting. Woody Norris is a unique inventor and I am pleased to be associated with a chief technology officer of his caliber.''
[Williams] spent over four years as vice president and general manager -- Far East operations for Rockwell International, three years as executive V.P. and CFO of E-H International Inc. and eight years with Intel Corp. and Monolithic Memories Inc. (Advanced Micro Devices).
As division marketing manager for the 8080/X86 microprocessor family he was one of Intel's first division executives where he developed the initial business strategies for what is now Intel's largest division. Williams has an E.E. degree from California State University and an MBA from USC. |
