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kleinbl00  ·  3300 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone, TV, tablet, and PC

Proof of concept and deployment are very different things. Ultrasonic transducers are commonplace, ultrasound-capable speakers are rare, consumer gear capable of hitting those frequencies without heinous harmonics down where you can hear them are a figment of the imagination.

It's the equivalent of saying that your smartwatch can beat Deep Blue at chess because after all, they're both computers.

Also, cheers. Let's see if this shit works over EDGE.





mk  ·  3300 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Many many years ago, my father decided to take us off-roading in our Laredo after church in the UP of Michigan. Way back into a two rut, we came across a puddle, maybe 20 feet long. My mom tried to talk him out of it, but he went for it.

We bottomed out. We spent the next hour jamming branches under the tires in our Sunday best. Ready to go, we climbed in, and the jeep wouldn't start. My brother and my dad then went for help. A long time later, they returned with an old timer that quickly found a loose connection, I think it was the distributor, but I can't recall. We then rolled right out.

My mother was not pleased.

user-inactivated  ·  3300 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Someone told a venture capitalist that the technology they wanted to play with had applications to marketing in order to get funding to play with it. They are going to have a lot of fun, and VCs are asking for it. More power to 'em, I say.