The Ishin-Den-Shin technology uses a standard microphone to
record audio and then converts it into an inaudible signal transmitted through
the body of the person holding the microphone.
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Imagine
sending secret messages to someone just by touching them - a 'magical' device
allows you to do just that using a simple microphone!
The Ishin-Den-Shin technology uses a standard microphone to record audio and
then converts it into an inaudible signal transmitted through the body of the
person holding the microphone.
The Ishin-Den-Shin interactive installation addresses physicality and
intimacy in digital audio communication, its manufacturers, Disney, said on its
website.
The installation has been designed and developed at Disney Research
Pittsburgh by Yuri Suzuki, Olivier Bau and Ivan Poupyrev.
It consists of a microphone that can record sounds and transmit them through
touch. Once recorded, the sound is transformed in an inaudible signal.
This signal is transmitted to a person's body when holding the microphone.
The signal can be transmitted by physical contact, from body to body.
"The recorded sound becomes audible only when touching someone's ear. The
sound can be heard only by the specific ear which is touched, as if the finger
would be whispering the recorded sounds," the website said.
Secrets, messages and whispers can then be transmitted from person to person
in physical contact with each other. Bodies become a broadcasting medium for
intimate, physical, sound communication.
Shin-Denshin is a mantra which represents the traditional Japanese concept of
interpersonal communication through unspoken mutual understanding.
It literally translates as "what the mind thinks, the heart transmits," the
website said.
Source:PTI
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