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	<title>erika.whillas.com &#187; Innovation</title>
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		<title>Baggu</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We knew that only so many people would be motivated by the need to be good &#8211; but if we made it a functional, beautiful, nice to use product, that would really get people to continue using it&#8221; &#8211; Baggu&#8217;s co-founder Emily Sugihara

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;We knew that only so many people would be motivated by the need to be good &#8211; but if we made it a functional, beautiful, nice to use product, that would really get people to continue using it&#8221; &#8211; <a href="http://baggubag.com/" target="_blank">Baggu</a>&#8217;s co-founder Emily Sugihara<br />
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		<title>Binaural Sound</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Woody Norris, the extraordinary inventor, has developed a system to play true binaural or hypersonic sound. To explain this, Woody uses the analogy between light and light bulbs. Light bulbs emit omni-directional and uncontrollable light, the same is true for loud speakers &#8211; the sound goes wherever it wants to.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/woody_norris.html" target="_blank">Woody Norris</a>, the extraordinary inventor, has developed a system to play true binaural or hypersonic sound. To explain this, Woody uses the analogy between light and light bulbs. Light bulbs emit omni-directional and uncontrollable light, the same is true for loud speakers &#8211; the sound goes wherever it wants to.</p>
<p>In the case of light, we now have lasers and projectors, which controls the direction of light, in the case of the laser making the light waves coherent. While we have had sound systems for 80 years, no such mechanisms have been available for sound &#8211; until now.</p>
<p>Woody has made a system that can put sound anywhere and in any range you want it, whether that be different sounds for different sides of your head (true stereo), or noise cancelling for traffic and snoring bedfellows.</p>
<p>Using low level ultrasound, which makes sound at a billion independent points in a column of sound, sound is made right where you want it, without sound levels dropping off once they leave the emitting source.</p>
<p>Currently Sony and the American Military are the key customers of this technology.<br />
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