Invisible Peace Pole
Audible
This is a column, like other peace poles are columns, but this one is made of sound. Directing sound the way a laser beam directs light is a new technology. It is called HyperSonic Sound (HSS) and creates a narrow column of sound that has little spillover. People five feet away from it cannot hear it. But people within it hear it as though through a headset even though the sound source might be 200 feet away. With an ultrasonic powered emitter and a proprietary signal processor/amplifier, it focuses sound into a tight, directional beam.
I am now a vender of the kind of speaker necessary for this. Soon I will be offering three packages - one for indoor use and two for outdoors, one free standing and one attached to an existing structure. I also sell the components if you want to build your own.
On the ground there might be a circle marking the area in which
to stand to hear the recitations. Some translations could be engraved in bronze
or set
in pavers or cement.
There could be an on/off switch attached to a motion detector so that it would make run only when someone was present. Or it could broadcast all the time. Or it could have a button to push to activate it.
The
recordings are in the voices of native speakers.
To give you an idea of how much this might cost, if buying just the speaker and processor/amplifier (it's not a normal processor - the system works only with this one) along with the connecting cables necessary to connect to the iPod or other input device, the cost without shipping is either $1,999 or $2,499 depending on the size and power you need. I can include the recordings of the translation with that.
That is a base price without brackets or whatever else might be necessary. In a couple of months I will have complete packages shown here.
The one caveat is that no one knows how long these last outside. They have been used in exterior locations, but no information has been gathered as yet to how long they last under adverse conditions like Minnesota winters or Florida hurricanes. The fronts are protected by stainless steel mesh which I'm told will protect it if I throw a snowball at it, but I haven't tested that myself yet. Now that someone has inquired about purchasing an invisible peace pole, I know that there is interest and I will begin doing tests.