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Initiating the Surround Sound Era for Digital Radio
Telos/Omnia and Fraunhofer IIS announce the first public demonstration of their new surround system for HD Radio™ at the NAB Radio Show in San Diego, October 6-8, booth 907. view more (2004-10-05)
Physics World Digest: May 2002 edition
Lasers clear "leaves on the line" They cause delays, cancellations and untold frustration to rail passengers in the UK every autumn. It`s no wonder then that "leaves on the line" have become something of a national joke, regarded by the public as merely the latest excuse for poor railway services. Now, however, a new Hampshire-based company set up... view more... (2002-04-25)
5.1 Surround Sound for FM HD Radio at NAB 2005
Fraunhofer IIS, Telos, Omnia, Axia, Broadcast Electronics and Bose participate in world-premiere live demon-stration of non-matrixed 5.1 Surround Sound for FM HD Radio. view more (2005-04-13)
"Ear ear" - a new audio world at the Science Museum
·How do you know instinctively where to look for a plane when it passes over? ·Where is that fly when you want to swat it? ·What has this got to do with Microsoft's new X-box games console? Hearing in three dimensions is the focus of a new display opening tomorrow, Wednesday 14 November, at the Science Museum in London. The display, called Audio... view more... (2001-11-13)
Dyslexia varies across language barriers
Chinese-speaking children with dyslexia have a disorder that is distinctly different, and perhaps more complicated and severe, than that of English speakers. view more (2009-10-13)
Scientists at Low Temperature Laboratory planning to model a black hole
Academy Professor Matti Krusius and Antti Finne, M.Sc. (Eng.), were invited to a recent science breakfast, hosted by the Academy of Finland, to talk about their ongoing work to produce a first-ever laboratory simulation of a black hole. A black hole is created as a result of the most extreme concentration of matter. Scientists have been arguing... view more... (2003-04-16)
Surviving dance club music (noise) with hearing intact
By tweaking a system in the ear that limits how much sound is heard, a global team of researchers has discovered one alteration that shows that the ability of the ear to turn itself down contributes to protecting against permanent hearing loss. The report appears this week in PLoS Biology. view more (2009-01-21)
Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) For Car Radios
Fraunhofer IIS presented the first DRM chip design for car radios. This car radio solution will enable drivers to select their preferred radio program from hundreds of different radio stations. However, it is something more than purely listening to favorite music: the new radio formats offer multilingual support to ethnic news or talk programs. In... view more... (2005-01-10)
Toumaz Technology Set For Expansion After Attracting £1.5 Million Investment
Toumaz Technology Ltd, a developer of advanced semiconductors, has attracted an investment of £1.5 million from Gennum Corporation, Canada. Toumaz Technology is a spin-out company from Imperial College, London whose ultra low-power (AMx™) Advanced Mixed Signal technology could transform the whole concept of battery operated and mobile... view more... (2004-04-07)
Disorder enables extreme sensitivity in piezoelectric materials
A research team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has found an explanation for the extreme sensitivity to mechanical pressure or voltage of a special class of solid materials called relaxors. view more (2008-05-19)
MP3 Surround Set for Launch
Fraunhofer IIS, Thomson and Agere Systems unveil free MP3 Surround evaluation download. Full versions of MP3 Surround encoder and decoder available from www.mp3surround-format.com. view more (2004-12-06)
Older adults not more distractible, research shows
Despite previous research suggesting that older adults are more distractible, new research shows they are no more distractible than younger adults when asked to focus their attention on their sense of sight or sound, or when asked to switch their attention from one sense to the other. view more (2007-11-05)
Discovery of a water snake that startles fish in a way that makes them flee into its jaws
Forget the old folk tales about snakes hypnotizing their prey. The tentacled snake from South East Asia has developed a more effective technique. view more (2009-06-19)
Scientists blow their own trumpet
Brass instrument makers could soon be using the latest technology to refine the manufacturing of trumpets and cornets. An improved way of taking internal measurements of musical instruments, published today in the Institute of Physics journal, Measurement Science and Technology, has been developed by scientists at the University of Edinburgh, the... view more... (2002-04-16)
The Green (and blue, red, and white) lights of the future
A revolution in energy-efficient, environmentally-sound, and powerfully-flexible lighting is coming to businesses and homes, according to a paper in latest special energy issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal. view more (2008-12-17)
Battling against noise pollution for a quieter Europe
The first comprehensive methodology to measure and map noise patterns will help the European Union lay down a common approach to avoiding, preventing and reducing harmful noise that currently affects a quarter of Europe's population. view more (2005-05-13)
Greater parental guidance suggested for noisy toy use
The High School Musical Rockerz Jammin Guitar and the Cheetah Girls In Concert Collection Doll may be what kids want most this holiday season, but if parents aren't careful about how these and other popular toys are used, a season of joy might turn into a lifetime of hearing loss for their children. view more (2007-12-05)
Drawing inspiration from nature to build a better radio
MIT engineers have built a fast, ultra-broadband, low-power radio chip, modeled on the human inner ear, that could enable wireless devices capable of receiving cell phone, Internet, radio and television signals. view more (2009-06-04)
Children with autism have difficulty recognizing ordinary words
New research indicates that young children with autism have a difficult time recognizing ordinary words and more of their brains are occupied with this kind of task compared to typically developing youngsters. view more (2007-05-04)
Switching off analogue TV will silence radio mikes
Actors could be struck dumb when everyone has digital television SWITCHING off Britain`s analogue television network threatens to silence its theatres, concert halls and TV studios. After 2006, the government plans to raise billions of pounds by auctioning licences to use the UHF frequencies... view more... (2002-03-13)
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