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Imagine walking down a street and hear a bit of a conversation but there's noone else around or laughter from a hedge but there's no one there. It's coming from a very tiny box hardly bigger than a thumbdrive. | Imagine walking down a street and hear a bit of a conversation but there's noone else around or laughter from a hedge but there's no one there. It's coming from a very tiny box hardly bigger than a thumbdrive. | ||
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* Small wifi enabled single purpose device designed to record random snippets of sound and send them back to a central location. | * Small wifi enabled single purpose device designed to record random snippets of sound and send them back to a central location. | ||
* The central location upon receiving a sound snippet randomly retransmits it to another small device somewhere else in the city. | * The central location upon receiving a sound snippet randomly retransmits it to another small device somewhere else in the city. | ||
* Upon receiving a sound snippet the tiny device plays it back immediately and goes about it's normal routine of recording and transmitting sounds. | * Upon receiving a sound snippet the tiny device plays it back immediately and goes about it's normal routine of recording and transmitting sounds. | ||
Revision as of 04:37, 24 May 2007
Overview
Imagine walking down a street and hear a bit of a conversation but there's noone else around or laughter from a hedge but there's no one there. It's coming from a very tiny box hardly bigger than a thumbdrive.
Status
Research
Concept
- Small wifi enabled single purpose device designed to record random snippets of sound and send them back to a central location.
- The central location upon receiving a sound snippet randomly retransmits it to another small device somewhere else in the city.
- Upon receiving a sound snippet the tiny device plays it back immediately and goes about it's normal routine of recording and transmitting sounds.
