It was an inspiration for young aspiring architects everywhere, as we described in an earlier post «a glimpse of carefree futuristic living inside a plastic - walled floating cruciform structure with picture phones, height - adjustable sinks, dishes washed
by ultrasonic waves, and atomic food preservation.»
Bubbly Gone Flat Water bubbles created
by ultrasonic waves can collapse fast enough to generate a flash of light [see «Sonoluminescence: Sound into Light»; SciAm, February 1995].
Not exact matches
Ultrahaptics pairs gesture technology with tactile feedback
by using
ultrasonic waves that cause the user's skin to vibrate, creating the illusion of touching buttons or other physical objects and allowing users to control devices seemingly in mid-air.
The Los Angeles - based company has developed technology that transmits
ultrasonic waves (at a register well beyond what's audible) that are translated
by devices as a microscopic quiver; this vibration is converted back into an electrical charge to power anything with a battery, no wires or wall plugs required.
They work on both insects and rodents
by emitting variable
ultrasonic waves from 20 - 55 kHz.
By incrementally varying the frequencies of the
ultrasonic waves, the duo can pinpoint the frequency at which a target resonates — like the amplification of a particular hum in a shower stall.
Some of the laser energy is absorbed
by the tissues and converted into heat, leading to rapid thermal expansion inside the tissues that produces
ultrasonic waves.
The generated
waves are then detected
by an
ultrasonic sensor to form photoacoustic images of the tissues.
To find out, Mercader took them back to his lab in Calgary and cleaned the dirt off the rocks
by submerging them in water and beaming them with
ultrasonic waves.
The researchers found they could tune the dimensions of the scrolls
by varying the treatment duration and the frequency of the
ultrasonic waves.
Available Intelligent Parking Assist (IPA) uses
ultrasonic wave sensors to size up a parallel parking space and then, when activated
by the driver, can steer the car into it.
It works
by emitting sonic and
ultrasonic sound
waves which dogs find offensive.
The Under Display Fingerprint Scanning Solution from Vivo works
by using piezoelectric effects which will generate and receive
ultrasonic sound
waves when a finger is pressed against the display.
An
ultrasonic fingerprint scanner works
by deploying
ultrasonic waves to recognize a person's fingerprint, irrespective of whether the finger is wet, sweaty or covered in filth and grime.