Blueline Sensors released its most advanced tactical contact microphone to date. The WASP3 Tactical Contact Microphone, designed with tactical teams, crisis negotiators and technical investigators in ...

Unlike other microphones, a contact microphone makes you look at the world in a different way. At the heart of the contact mic described here is a ceramic piezo-disc, which can be mounted with ...

Designed in Israel by a military contractor, the Pro Extreme Contact Microphone enables you to amplify the sound being produced behind walls, ceilings and floors, thus making holding up a glass cup to ...

Donald Bell has spent more than five years as a CNET senior editor, reviewing everything from MP3 players to the first three generations of the Apple iPad. He currently devotes his time to producing ...

Here’s an interesting little project that, while it’s unlikely to grow into a major product, nevertheless demonstrates the potential of alternative interfaces. Bruno Zamborlin’s Mogees (an ...

We’re most familiar with sound as vibrations that travel through the atmosphere around us. However, sound can also travel through objects, too! If you want to pick it up, you’d do well to start with a ...

Contact microphones turn vibrations into electrical signals, and can then be transcoded into sound waves. This is precisely what the Mogees project does, and it does it well. The gadget can stick to ...

PhD student Bruno Zamborlin’s Mogees allows you to turn a contact mic and any rigid surface into a touch interface for triggering audio samples. PhD student Bruno Zamborlin’s Mogees allows you to turn ...

A super-sensitive contact microphone, called the "Insect Microphone", can pick up the footsteps of crawling insects. It was developed to convey on television the reality of the world of small insects.

We’re most familiar with sound as vibrations that travel through the atmosphere around us. However, sound can also travel through objects, too! If you want to pick it up, you’d do well to start with a ...