It would be useful for more than surveillance, too, as team member Abe Davis believes the visual mic could identify a material's properties without making contact. It's definitely clever tech -- let's ...

If you've ever had the feeling that you’re being listened to by chip bags, spied on by your houseplants, and eavesdropped by chocolate bar wrappers, then you may not be paranoid; you may just be up on ...

A Group of MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe researchers have managed to reproduce sound using video alone. The sounds we make bounce off every object in the room, causing microscopic vibrations. The Visual ...

A Group of MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe researchers have managed to reproduce sound using video alone. The sounds we make bounce off every object in the room, causing microscopic vibrations. The Visual ...

Sound is everywhere, but now light can capture it without ever “hearing” a thing. In a striking blend of optics and acoustics, researchers at the Beijing Institute of Technology have developed a ...

Before you spill your deepest darkest secrets, or plans for world domination, look around you. Is there a gossipy potato chip bag or leafy green houseplant nearby picking up your conversation?

As lifelong musicians, the members of Bin 's founding team turned their experience in data analytics, signal processing and application design toward a question that intrigued them: why don't more ...