Using #NeuralNetworks and #GeneticAlgorithms, #Interactlab researchers are exploring how to use #AcousticMetamaterials to #cloak an object from an incoming ultrasound wave. See how the “sound shadow” is reduced by the strategically placed blocks in the second image?

With real time path generation and image projection, our #ParticleBasedDisplays could be used to generate a #hologram of each participant in a conference call, for the next level of #Remote #Interaction

From our virtual reading group: #visual distortion is common in museums or events, but what about #auditory distortion? Here, we see how #training users can improve sound localization for error reduction to spot distorted #spatial sound sources. tinyurl.com/yajw52sw

#Schlieren optics can help to visualise invisible air pressure differences, including sound! Here is a neat little project on background oriented schlieren imaging used on a candle: calebkruse.com/10-projects/s…

In a spooky haunted house attraction, a visitor feels a ghostly hand touch his shoulder. This remote #hapticfeedback is being provided by #Interactlab Phased Array Transducers boards.

TableHop an interactive tabletop display made from stretchable spandex and actuated using transparent electrodes. Visuals are projected beneath the fabric and the electrodes provide #HapticFeedback to the fingertips of the users @acmsigchi #CHI2016 tinyurl.com/ybxubs88

Check out the newest publication in Advanced Materials Technologies. We use individually tuned unit cells to show focusing of ultrasonic waves at different points in space as well as generation of sonic hologram images.tinyurl.com/y8x9e6qy

From our virtual reading group: “super-oscillation” is a concept whereby #wave-packets can temporarily oscillate at frequencies much higher than their largest frequency component and thus resolve & manipulate subwavelength areas of space @NatureComms tinyurl.com/y7cao3x8

We are excited to be exhibiting Particle-Based-Display #ultrasound #levitation technologies on the 11.2020 at the #Design Capital of The World Exhibition In co-operation with #Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts @ShanghaiEye

Before diving into the excellent BEM/FEM software for acoustic simulations like #BEMpp #Interactlab researchers have been building their own scripts for discovering the capabilities of specially designed #acoustic #metamaterials by outputting numerically determined sound fields.

From our #virtual reading group: State-of-the-art #LiDAR technology and a new #algorithm enable #3D reconstructions as far as 320m away in real-time! The algorithm can even #reconstruct targets behind semi-opaque surfaces like a #camouflage net. tiny.cc/o4oaqz

One from the archives: Touchable electric arcs?! Don’t worry, #SPARKLE is absolutely safe. Published in #CHI2017, SPARKLE offers tactile and thermal feedback – careful tuning can stimulate multiple sensations such as tingling, pricking, buzzing! tiny.cc/vataqz @acmsigchi

Teleportation? Superpositions? Spooky action at a distance? In this week's virtual reading group, Monty presented a @Nature publication showcasing the work of the brilliant minds at @GoogleAI and a huge step towards a universal quantum computer. tiny.cc/27hfpz

Our video technician and esteemed director @Monty_Jankauskis has produced a moving #shortfilm encapsulating the isolation of #lockdown in combination with the primal #British need for #tea. A masterpiece youtu.be/mSP-qlvIN2M

One from the archives: HapBead is a novel #haptic #microfluidic interface that is thin, flexible, and soft enough to be comfortably worn on the skin. Precise fluidic actuation moves a bead to provide #tactile sensations #CHI2020 @acmsigchi tiny.cc/e60xoz

At our virtual reading group, @FaruqiFaraz presented a #PNAS paper on shape shifting 2D lattices using multimaterial #4dprinting. The lattice can transform into complex 3D shapes, including the face of mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich #Gauss! tiny.cc/09g0oz

Sometimes being in lockdown and away from your normal workspace can have some unforeseen benefits! Researchers at #InteractLab have been experimenting with @elmerFEM to develop some simple plane wave #acoustics simulations!

Maxime Meyrat from @iutInfoBdx is doing an internship at the '; Interact Lab says "Doing a remote #internship from France with England is sometimes difficult, maybe it would be easier to make signals from the top of the 'Dune du Pilat' 😀 "

Home experiments can be tricky to get right, but the results are just as important as those we get from a lab! Here, #Interactlab researchers are measuring the acoustic pressure field generated by a phase array transducer board!