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World’s thinnest speakers? Nanotechnology & carbon nanotubes

noiseaddicts.com — Nanotechnology has made a flexible, stretchable, transparent material thinner than paper that can be used as a speaker. The material can be put into clothing, wallpaper or onto windows. The material was developed by Chinese scientists and is made up of carbon nanotube films and could be used to produce the world’s thinnest speakers

Who dugg this? Made popular Nov 20, 2008

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  • steve9924, on 11/18/2008, -0/+35I would absolutely love a t-shirt made out of this stuff so I can walk around annoying everyone at the mall ... the mall blasts crappy muzak at me all the time... it's time to fight back !
  • sbcea, on 11/19/2008, -1/+30Oh these kids today with their loud clothes!
  • valkyries, on 11/20/2008, -1/+17" - a popped shirt collar that produces music." oh dear lord....
  • krnldmp, on 11/20/2008, -1/+14I'll settle for the world's best sounding. You can make them fat as you like.
  • Zippo, on 11/19/2008, -1/+9SCIENCE!!
  • bstory, on 11/18/2008, -1/+8Pretty sweet if you ask me
  • inactive, on 11/20/2008, -1/+8But can it run...music?
  • inactive, on 11/20/2008, -3/+9Kudos to the Chinese. This is what you get when you pour money into research.

    Over here in America, we hate "Big Science," disbelieve evolution, marginalize stem cell researchers, and brand intellectuals as "elitist." We'll just have to wait for Jesus to bring us our speaker cloth.
  • azreal156, on 11/20/2008, -1/+6You admit your own music is crappy?
  • davidbeile, on 11/20/2008, -0/+5That video didn't really convince me.
    It looked like a flag being blown by a fan with music playing in the background.
    But that's just my opinion.

    Personally, I wouldn't get too excited about your clothes being able to play music.
  • mcsia, on 11/20/2008, -1/+5Would be cool as wallpaper for really accurate surround sound
  • ZoomBoy, on 11/20/2008, -0/+3Don't even joke around about that, I can totally picture it now! Don't they have Levi's jeans with built in iPod controllers?
  • askantik, on 11/20/2008, -1/+4The speakers in almost all laptops already sound ***** enough...
  • Kahnza, on 11/20/2008, -1/+4World's thinnest sound too I bet.
  • Frozo, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2Didnt i read somewhere that carbon nanotubes are actually proven carcinogens? Sorry, too lazy to look up, so I'll be dug down. lol
  • DeFex, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2I am so glad they measured a small thing in human hairs, otherwise i could never understand it.

    Whats the the science for dummies measurement that comes between a human hair and a football field anyways?
  • strada, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2"...flexible, stretchable, TRANSPARENT material..."

    You won't have any trouble annoying everyone at the mall.
  • MasterGrief, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2My mall usually plays classic rock. I was actually surprised at how good some of the stuff was.
  • benologist, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2They've got plenty.

    But they're a lot more famous for buying or stealing technology than for developing it themselves.
  • CTabuga, on 11/20/2008, -2/+4dugg for numa numa
  • DaHuuuuuudge, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2"the ultimate bling - a popped shirt collar that produces music."

    HOLY ***** NO

    Who hires these writers?
  • palehorse864, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2NOTHING sounds worse than a Bose!
  • palehorse864, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2Hahha. Hey man, I can't hear you, YOUR SHIRT'S TOO LOUD!

    No, it actually is too loud, do you have a volume knob on that or something?
  • AeroZeppelin, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2Yeah, because China is a completely uncivilized country with no scientific technology at all!
  • pizzaface200, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2woof
  • ButterBuddha, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2Your wiener is a nanotube
  • casspa, on 11/19/2008, -1/+3Is this like hypercolor shirts 2.0?
  • TheOther1, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2I would imagine you already annoy everyone at the mall. Or anywhere else.
  • n4tune8, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2It works, bitches.
  • bakagaigin, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1I respect your opinion, Mr. James.

    S
  • palehorse864, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1The schnozberries sound like schnozberries!
  • borez, on 11/20/2008, -2/+3Woofer pants... yes!!
  • paulsabo, on 11/20/2008, -3/+4Bet it sounds worse than a Bose...
  • borez, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1laddies: As in Scottish male friends?

    I guess they just may.
  • meghalc, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1Awsome! Now every kid will have a reason to pop their collor!
  • jrizzo, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1the laddies will love those...
  • CaviMike, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1Worst. Comments. Ever.
  • BluesFan, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1It would be cool if they could make air conditioned clothes,with an ipod and a cell phone integrated....of course that wouldn't go very good when you put it in the washer.
  • mrrealtime, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1one day the internets will be made of nanotubes instead of tubes. Then you could put it in your pocket.
  • EH90, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1Hey is it pretty sweet?
  • DeliLlama, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1Could this technology be applied to making microphones instead? Imagine the espionage possibilities...
  • palehorse864, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1You yes you! STAND STILL LADDY!
  • Kwipper, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1But it sounds like *****!
  • superhope, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1What can't carbon nanotubes do?
  • cddict1, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1Interesting thing.
  • inactive, on 11/22/2008, -0/+1Ok, I'll make sure to stick some giant speakers in your cell phone.
  • ratchetbg, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1@palehorse864

    That was actually a very funny comment you made
  • leerayIG88, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1knowledge is power.
  • puffenbargerme, on 12/02/2008, -0/+0Absolutely amazing! The wide range of uses for this technology is almost endless. The carbon nanotube technology will likely revolutionize the materials industry similar to how the internet revolutionized the communitcations industry once the technology costs come down.
  • Klucki, on 11/20/2008, -0/+0Wow that sounds like the best mall ever...
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