But why? Everywhere my car has speakers has plenty of space behind them. There’s no need for them to be thinner.

No, the biggest cost is always land prices. Until that gets regulated house prices won’t become affordable.

The 1031 exchange has helped many become rich, its a huge distortion in the real estate market.

Are the animals and insects gonna eat the building materials?

>"Insulated with wood"

Perfect, a combustible insulation.

They're genuinely just as costly if not more than regular houses

I need some deep throbbing base up through my seat when I listen to Black Sabbath!

Until something can withstand and *shield* against northern winters (I'm in Quebec, Canada), I'm not holding my breath that this type of building can become widespread in my area, lol.

Wow that's fukn amazing. Now let's make a bio based water bottles that litter the ocean and the streets everywhere. That would be even more amazing

And this article shows a few pics of the interior as well. https://parametric-architecture.com/university-of-maine-unveiled-the-first-100-bio-based-3d-printed-house/

Here is a link to a video about it. It shows some of the inside. https://youtu.be/uJixbUiMezE

Sounds like a riff on the distributed mode loudspeakers audio nerds have been making for years. DML is pretty neat. You can make a pair yourself with some rigid foam insulation board and a $20 pair of sonic exciters from Dayton audio etc.

I’d keep my eyes peeled for publications— I’m sure you’ll see a few academic papers with more technical details in the coming months.

thanks, sadly no info on how they fireproofed it.

Just 3D print it and put it on some virtual land in the Metaverse.

>You've never been to Maine, I take it.

I have.

Maine lacks a strong jobs market for it to make much of an impact on nation housing markets. And zoning laws DO exist there...

It’s all time and phase based, in addition to multiple drivers that are individually controllable.

If you are interested in it - look into Klang in-ear monitoring; it’s designed for live music but can be used for all kinds of things.

> don't think you'll be able to turn north America into Amsterdam. (And trying to will get you lots of ideological pushback)

This is absolutely what needs to happen.

Massive problems require massive changes.

That's.... problematic.

Clearly we need to fix those tax laws so millionaires with 5 investment properties can't avoid taxes forever

Ok, i might be able to help with this. I'm an artists and I discovered the existence of this technology a few years ago. I wanted to make some art Installation with it and started experimenting.

The problem is: in a speaker, the vibration (just like what tass would produce) is basically just already "stuck" to the perfectly shaped and perfectly resonating surface ... And that's what we call a speaker. The perfect shape for sound into air is somewhat like a cone... Think megaphones etc. We all learn this as kids when screaming into various tubes and stuff. The perfect surface to resonate would be something thin and flexible but also not to thin because then it just wobbles away. So that's why you have these cone shaped cardboard things in your speaker. A speaker is basically a TASS that comes with its own built in perfect resonating surface.

You can of course improve this technology a bit with as was mentioned buit in equalizers to make up for "sub perfect" resonating surfaces that are too rigid or not cone shaped at all. But the principle will remain the same. There is nothing one can improve about how sound is transported through air. It's just how it works. And yes you can use almost any surface to vibrate it and it will transport these vibrations into the air. Just like you can hear loud music outside of a car. The whole care becomes the resonating surface that vibrates the air around you to reach your ears.

But all the comments that say: yeah it works but it sound funky are correct. Because any surface that is not cone shaped and not of a flexible yet rigid enough material will sound less nice as what we have in speakers.

The basic idea of an actuator is very old. Is a bit how old gramophones created their sound. The fact that we still went through all the trouble of inventing the speaker still speaks for itself.

Edit: some spelling (I'm on mobile sorry for format)

One problem i see is that many townships codes , HOA bylaws and development covenants do not allow modular homes. I just see to get permitting as well as underwriting from fanny and freddy to be a nightmare with this. I love the general idea but our housing market and the entire building system is set up to promote stick framing on site.

And that still isn't enough to power the laptop lol. Lenovo Legion comes with a 300w charging brick I think.

Want to be more specific?

You're arguing points that relate to the size of the speakers while disregarding the same points to contradict yourself

I had a couple things like this like a decade ago. It was fun to plug an oscillator into each one and play around with beat frequencies