We've heard hypersonic sound. It could change everything.

Popular Science ^ | October, 2002 | Suzanne Kantra Kirschner

[Willie Green]

This is scarey.

The last thing in the world I need is to have commercial advertisements projected into my head when I go shopping.

[DWSUWF]

"...The last thing in the world I need is to have commercial advertisements projected into my head when I go shopping..."

LOL!

That's just the sort of thing that could prompt an asshole like me to decide not to buy that gallon of ice cream after all...

Right there in the cereal aisle.

[El Sordo]

Trust me, you get used the voices in your head pretty quick.

What's that? Time to go home?

Gotta go...

[Fixit]

Beat Frequencies 1

Beat Frequencies 2

[Dakmar]

That's been going on for about 10 years now. They hate us potheads because we really listen to the idiotic store music and think about it's true meaning. Buy stuff. Buy our stuff. You came to the mall to shop, why not shop here, we are your friends, your only friends. Buy our stuff, loser, no one else wants your business, doper.

[SubMareener]

This principle has been used in underwater acoustics for at least 30 years. Works very well in water because it is a more non-linear medium than air.

[Lazamataz]

It could be used, in combat situations, to make an enemy 'hear' something that wasn't there.

[Willie Green]

Buy stuff. Buy our stuff. You came to the mall to shop, why not shop here, we are your friends, your only friends. Buy our stuff, loser, no one else wants your business, doper.

LOL!!!

It certainly would be a hoot to watch them all kneel in humble subservience to the omnipresent Voice of the Almighty Munchie: "Eat Me... EAT ME...."

Bwahahahahaha!

[4CJ]

Note to self: buy lot's of tinfoil ...

[Brett66]

This sounds like it's straight from the movie Minority Report. They would beam personalized laser-transmitted advertisements into your eyes as you walked around the mall. So unbelievably obnoxious, you can bet they'll do it.

[Dakmar]

I see you have settled for less subtle humor, oral copulation references; not interested.

[Centurion2000]

They would beam personalized laser-transmitted advertisements into your eyes as you walked around the mall.

Oh the joys and peace of mind that come with mirrored shades then :)

[okie01]

"It could be used, in combat situations, to make an enemy 'hear' something that wasn't there."

Or to "whisper" across a long distance, without the person six feet away hearing you...

[Willie Green]

I see you have settled for less subtle humor, oral copulation references; not interested.

Yeah, I'm afraid the Ananova articles that get posted here have had a negative influence.
I'm going to have to make a greater effort to avoid them.

[Dakmar]

I've always suspected you were, somehow, conflicted; while you knew me and my insane band of rowdies were destined to deregulate interstate trade, didn't you?

[aimhigh]

Step into the beam and you hear the sound as if it were being generated inside your head.

This should be used on the battle field. When we confront the enemy, just beam the repeating words, "I'm going to die", and they will surrender our of fear.

[southernnorthcarolina]

The ultrasonic speakers create sound at more than 20,000 cycles per second, a rate high enough to keep in a focused beam and beyond the range of human hearing.

Oh, gr8. I've got a Weimaraner who can hear a mallard on the pond 200 feet from my back door, and usually at 5:30 AM. I can hardly wait till he starts picking up ultrasonic noises.

[Willie Green]

I've always suspected you were, somehow, conflicted;

Not conflicted, merely human.

while you knew me and my insane band of rowdies were destined to deregulate interstate trade, didn't you?

I wouldn't go that far.
I do suspect, however, that they'd be immune to hypersonic influences...
they'd never notice the difference.

[Dakmar]

...immune to hypersonic influences

You may be right about that, it would go right over my head. :-)

(I think JimRob allows three freebie bad puns before banishment, that was most likely #2 for me, so I'll just stop now)

[Axenolith]

Hmmm... Sounds like something that could even decieve the Elect, if it were possible...