settle into an orange camp chair that has been stripped and fitted with 16 small, round voice coils, or speakers without loudspeaker cones. Carmen Branje hands me a pair of noise canceling headphones connected to his smartphone and launches a white noise app with instructions to jack up the volume as high as possible. Soon I feel as if I’m underneath a rushing waterfall. Branje hits play on a nearby computer and the chair begins to vibrate, though I can no longer hear the whir. The beat plays fast across my skin, the buzzes fluctuating from soft to intense as they flit up and down my back
Instead of an mp3,” he says, “I would send you a vib [vibrational] file.”< I'll take one
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/body/haptic-hearing/
Interesting.
I would offer myself up as a lab rat on this, experiment on me lol
Home