NanoTube – Hair-Thin Loudspeakers

Shoushan Fan, Kaili Jiang and Lin Xiao, scientists at Tsinghua University in Beijing, have invented a super-thin loudspeaker (one thousandth the width of a human hair).

The material is flexible, transparent, stretchable – uses no magnets or moving parts – and produces sound quality as good as conventional speakers.

An audio frequency current is [...]