(Nanowerk Spotlight) Carbon nanotube assemblies enabled design of a hybrid thermo-electromagnetic sound transducer with unique sound generation features that are not available from conventional ...

Like all ceramics, piezo ceramics are brittle materials that are well suited to handling compressive loads but are highly sensitive to bending, shear and tensile loads. A number of mechanical ...

As cell phones and other handheld devices compete for the attention of increasingly sophisticated users, audio quality as well as new functionality becomes critical to the devices' success. Needing ...

Traditional sound sources and sound detectors are usually independent and discrete in the human hearing range. To minimize the device size and integrate it with wearable electronics, there is an ...

Before humans discovered ultrasound for a variety of medical, technical and military applications, nature had perfected it over millions of years for navigation under and above water. Dolphins and ...

Earthquake Sound Corporation, a world renowned manufacturer of high-performance loudspeakers and entertainment products, announced that its Quake Series Tactile Transducers with mounting brackets; ...

We'd all love to have a color display attached to the systems we design. It'd make communicating with the user so much easier. But most of us don't have that option. We get by with a few LEDs, maybe a ...