Turn your head into a speaker.

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http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/11/02.html#a632

This is not a joke. You can do it today, according to this article from Fortune, "Metal Heads." It states that a small company based in Iowa has developed products made with a "smart" metal that can turn your walls or your head into speakers.

Last August, Etrema -- an innovative technology firm nestled in the cornfields of Ames, Iowa -- started selling those chrome discs for $1,500 a pair. Called Whispering Windows, they can turn any wall, window, or drab conference table into a speaker.

Here is a photograph of an installation at the headquarters of a computer maker (Credit: ETREMA Products, Inc. ).

Cora Daniels, our brave reporter, tells us about her experience with these disks.

Michael Conley, the company's president, tells me to stick my fingers in my ears. "Relax," he says as he places the cold disc on my forehead. "We're just turning your head into a speaker." A few seconds later, even though my ears are plugged, power chords blast through my skull. It feels like the loud crunch that fills my head when I bite into a tortilla chip, except the crunch is music. The stereo sound is inescapable. I can't say it's a pleasant experience -- afterward I will down a bottle of Tylenol -- but it's not every day that your head serves as a piece of stereo equipment.


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1. Hopefully, this will catch on with those who own way too loud car stereos

Then, the only annoyance will be cleaning up the gray ooze that'll drip from their ears from time to time.