Sending Sound Through Touch

Oct-01-13 A new technology that records and plays back sound by touch has recently won an honorable mention at the ARS Electroncia festival.

Called Ishin-Den-Shin, the technology works by recording a message whispered into a handheld microphone. The computer transforms the recording into an electronic signal that is then transmitted to the microphone’s conductive casing, creating a modulated electrostatic field around the person holding the microphone and turning them into a sort of human sound transmitter. When the charged person touches another person’s earlobe (or other object), the field will cause it to vibrate slightly and reproduce the recorded sound.


Creator Ivan Poupyrev, of Disney Research, hopes to scale up the technology to provide audible messages to large groups of people by touch alone, and believes the technology could be particularly useful in Disney storytelling applications.

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