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August 4, 2014 Marina Galperina

Using an algorithmic technique, researchers at MIT can now reconstruct audio that makes objects vibrate just by “reading” the video of those objects vibrating. The data — like this a houseplant’s “minute” movements generated by someone playing “Mary Has a Little Lamb” at it — can be gathered and translated into audio signals, which then can be played back. […]

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May 21, 2014 Andy Cush

From high-tech spectrographs to old-fashioned sheet music, there are plenty of ways to visually encode sound, but none quite like PhonoPaper. The app, free on iOS and Android, analyzes anything you can record on your phone, then saves it as an image filled with black-and-white blobs. Print that image out, and you — or anyone […]

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