[fishhound]

Invasion of privacy.

[neodad]

I guess I’ll have to really dust off my tinfoil.

[wideminded]

This works by placing the listener in the intersection of two ultrasonic beams. The beams are individually inaudible, but the difference in their frequencies can be an audible sound that is heard only inside this small region of intersection.

[Jeff Chandler]

This explains a lot.

[Jason Kauppinen]

Sounds like something out of C.M. Kornbluth’s “The Merchant’s War”.

[punster]

It sounds like it might also be useful for heckling politicians and the like. Can you imagine, the questioning looks, after they start complaining they were hearing voices.

[maine-iac7]

The technology, ideal for museums and libraries or environments ...

but NOT for unsuspecting people - or any other instance where the 'victim' has not been made aware and given permission

a whole new dimension to "I hear voices"

[Left2Right]

So that’s how the Karl Rove Mind Control Machine works...

[tophat9000]

Great toy to have fun with your paranoid friends or Ron Paul supporters

[RebelTex]

hmmm - seems like this could be very dangerous technology.

Aside from the subliminal advertising, this could be turned into a Manchurian Candidate kind if thing if aimed at borderline psychotics and/or other unstable people.

Talk about mind control, very unsettling.

[Sarajevo]

I guess that my tagline no longer applies;-)

[trailboss800]

ping

[Eye of Unk]

Reynolds Wraps anyone?

[mkjessup]

So now we know how they get those females to pull their clothes off for ‘Girls Gone Wild’.

No wonder the guy is in jail. LOL

[joeystoy]

My wife and I were having dinner in a Paris restaurant a few years ago when I started hearing voices. Really.

The ceiling of the dining room was shaped like a planetarium dome. I scanned the room and way on the other side I could see the lips of another patron synced up to the words I was hearing. The Mrs. looked at me like I was nuts, until I asked her to switched seats with me.

“Wow, that’s creepy.”

There must have been 80 people in the room, but I heard that conversation as if they were standing right next to me.

It reminded me of the “Whisper Dish” that I first saw at the San Francisco Exploratorium.

[6SJ7]

Great. First it’s ‘talk like a pirate day’. Now it’s ‘talk like a schizophrenic day’.

[blanknoone]

“What’s the frequency Kenneth?”

[TXnMA]

From the article:

"So a customer, for example, looking to buy laundry detergent could suddenly hear the sound of gurgling water and thus feel compelled to buy Tide as a result of the sonic experience."

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I can think of other likely responses...

'-)

[Cacique]

ping

[discostu]

It’s not an invasion of privacy, you’re walking around in public, nothing wrong with making sounds that can be heard by people in public. Making it sound like it comes from inside your head is creepy and annoying, but not invasion of privacy.

[Old Professer]

"So a customer, for example, looking to buy laundry detergent could suddenly hear the sound of gurgling water and thus feel compelled to buy Tide as a result of the sonic experience."

Not my wife!!