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(Image credit: Sensia Technology) Share Share by: Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Flipboard Share this article Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google A Japanese startup has announced that it has developed a portable fabric speaker which emits sound across its entire surface (machine translation). The device from Sensia Technology relies on flexible electronics , and can facilitate a wide variety of new audio applications and experiences. It is the first practical application of this new thin, light, and flexible fabric technology that was originally developed at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in 2018.
We’ve already mentioned that flexible electronics are one of the key innovations behind the new ‘Fabric Speaker Portable’ product. The press release goes on to explain that the whole of the fabric surface can emit sound, as it is woven from flexible conductive fibers arranged in a capacitor-like structure.
Such electrostatic speakers work using two conductive layers separated by a thin dielectric film, to form a large thin capacitor . An audio signal can then modulate the electrical field between the conductive layers, resulting in vibration, pushing and pulling air to produce audible sound waves. All this technology gets an added quality in this new ‘Fabric Speaker Portable’ product due to the flexible materials it uses.
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- https://www.tomshardware.com/speakers/SPONSORED_LINK_URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/speakers/new-fabric-speakers-use-flexible-electronics-to-be-thin-light-and-flexible-aist-japans-latest-breakthrough-audiophile-ready-or-only-suitable-for-cloth-ears#main
- https://www.tomshardware.com
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