Previewed in this year’s Consumer Electronics Show from Emo Labs, it’s a new technology from for loudspeakers that is called Edge Motion. Emo says that Edge Motion lets it build “invisible loudspeakers” for incorporation into TVs, computer displays, notebooks, and another devices with screens.

Standard loudspeakers reproduce sound by moving a cone back and forth. Edge Motion does the job by using arrays of motors to wiggle the edges of a clear membrane. The motor arrays can be built into the frame that surrounds a TV or monitor, and the clear membrane sits in front of the screen–as it utilizes the screen real estate that’s already there.







Emo plans to sell the speakers to consumer electronics manufacturers who will embed them in their products. The company says that it hopes that TVs will be ready in time for Christmas, but availability might slip into 2010.

Over time, Emo has hopes of putting Edge Motion into just about any device that has a screen and a need for sound, including pocketable gizmos such as cell phones.

http://technologizer.com/2009/01/26/...eyreinvisible/