Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2
Just read about the recent invention by Elwood Norris on the AP wire; he won the Lemelson-MIT prize for his efforts:
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To cut down on manmade sound straying beyond its intended audience, Norris developed a way to create a focused beam of sound waves, sort of like focusing a beam of light. ... His sound-focusing invention, known as HyperSonic Sound, starts by generating ultrasonic Ñ above the range of human hearing Ñ sound waves, which can be focused in a tight beam rather than spreading out in all directions. As these high-frequency sound waves pass through the air, they generate lower frequency sounds that people can hear. By stepping into the "beam," a person can hear sound that someone standing a foot or more away can't detect. "It's going to quiet everything down," Norris said. "If you don't want to be bothered by it, you step to one side and you don't hear it.". . . In cars, the technology could allow parents to listen to their favorite music in the front seats while kids in back choose their own. An airport terminal message could be beamed only to travelers in a specific area while not disturbing everyone else. A supermarket promoting a sale on cereal could project a sales pitch to shoppers in the cereal aisle.
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I propose that this could explain both the whispers and particular hallucinations. Individual castaways might be targeted and sent specific messages, and the writers may expand on Norris's concept to include visual as well as auditory information.
Back to a rational explanation . . .
drabauer
Cool drabauer
Is this too far from a wireless matrix theory? I mean VR nowadays blends the real with the virtual and it even mixes them up.
What a weird yet intriguing invention...what will they come up with next?
Kathy Fan 2
Ohh boy do I wish this was a city mandate in NYC apartments.
Maybe the transmission of the numbers can be beamed directly at their targets ... sort of like telmarketing entrapment snare.
sawyerhasbestlines
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Ohh boy do I wish this was a city mandate in NYC apartments.
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I don't live there but I visit often, and I always get a headache after half a day--my brain can't take all the conflicting sonic signals!
Seriously, I wouldn't be surprised if the writers knew of this and plotted around it. And yes, I suppose it could explain a VR invironment. Pesonally I find it more interesting to speculate that the island is the island and the hallucinations/whispers/dreams are separate; otherwise, why bother to even incoporate dreams and visions into the plot?
drabauer
Could be! ... Then again, there may be a band of killer ventriloquists loose on the island.
Even scarier ... they could be MIME ventriloquists!
Artuskan