Walls CAN talk - Japanese device picks ‘voice vibrations’ trapped in wall
board for up to 10 years
By DEREK CLONTZ
Your World Report
If you're cheating on your sweetie or talking behind somebody's back,
watch out - because there's a new gadget headed for market that can pick up voices from
walls for up to 10 years after somebody said them.
That means your boss could scan your cubicle at the office and hear you trashing him in
conversations dating back to 1999.
Or your spouse could scan your bedroom - and find out if you had an illicit lover in
there.
"People have dreamed about talking walls for ages and now, at last, with this new
technology, they really can," says Yoshiro Nakamura, of YN Electronics, LLC in Tokyo.
"It's an amazing breakthrough with applications for individuals and businesses
alike."
"Wall Man," as the hand-held gizmo is called, is no bigger than a
television's remote control. All a user has to do to retrieve voices is hold the unit
about six inches from any wall and walk slowly from one end to the other.
Wall Man automatically senses and records what Nakamura calls "latent
vibrations" that can linger in plaster, wall board, wood paneling and concrete blocks
for up to 10 years.
Its built-in computer discards extraneous and "nonsense" noises, focusing
instead on volume and rhythmic patterns that are consistent with human speech.
"You can listen to voices at random or program the unit to play only the voice or
voice you want to hear," Nakamura says.
Wall Man is already selling like hot cakes in Japan, and sales are sure to be brisk in
the United States as well, he continues. Look for them in department stores
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