Authentic Ltd's ASS-60AK NXT SoundVu projection screen
Remember when we saw one of NEC's laptops equipped with NXT's SoundVu, and we jokingly mentioned how we didn't think it could cut it in a home theater system? Well apparently Authentic Ltd. thinks otherwise, because they've just announced their, ahem, ASS-60AK front projection screen, that doubles as a display surface and a speaker. The screen, which vibrates at a rate undetectable to the human eye to create sound, is made of Teonex, a material specially designed to produce high frequencies other fabrics would absorb. The release suggests it can be used as a stand-alone speaker or as the center channel to your surround sound system, thus mimicking the acoustically transparent screens used in full-scale multiplexes. While it sounds great in theory (caugh), NXT technology has been hit or miss enough that you'd probably to hear what it actually sounds like before dropping more than $500 for your own.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
ZaphodB @ Jul 13th 2006 8:40AM
Well, sure, you could go all technical, or you could just point out that the name reads like 'ASS-SOAK'. You know, whatever works.
Wonderboy @ Jul 13th 2006 10:00AM
ASS-60AK - affectionately nicknamed "Bidet" by it's designers.
Steve @ Jul 13th 2006 10:37AM
Well, while a projection screen is kind of interesting, what else could we do with Teonex? The only thing I could come up with would be to make window curtains out of it so I could creep people out into thinking that the walls were talking to them. Other than that, I've got nothing.
rj @ Jul 13th 2006 10:42AM
...or you could just get an audio vision (acoustically transparent) screen from da-lite (or equivalent) and place whatever quality speaker u want directly behind it.