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title: ""Using high speed cameras, it’s possible to record the vibrations of…"
date: 2018-01-27
source: facebook
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# "Using high speed cameras, it’s possible to record the vibrations of…

*January 27, 2018 · Facebook*

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[https://kottke.org/18/01/if-you-watch-closely-enough-everything-is-a-speaker](https://kottke.org/18/01/if-you-watch-closely-enough-everything-is-a-speaker){target="_blank"}
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\"Using high speed cameras, it's possible to record the vibrations of everyday objects caused by nearby sounds and reverse engineer the sounds...essentially turning anything that vibrates into a speaker. For instance, if you want to know what a person is saying but can't hear them directly, you can take a video of the house plant next to them and recover the sound from the micro-vibrations of the leaves. In one example, they filmed a pair of Apple earbuds playing a song and the recovered audio was accurate enough for the Shazam app to identify the song.\"
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