Technology Connections
Season 4 Episode 34 - The Ubiquitous Sound That You May Have Never Noticed
2015
Documentary, Comedy
Ya know, I just love learning about the everyday things in our world that are meant to make life a little more accessible to those with disabilities. This video is about a small (but nearly universal) thing that elevators do to make life just a bit easier for the blind and visually impaired.
Episodes in Season 4
1
Roller Coaster Safety: How to Manage Too Many Trains at Once
2
Laserdisc: An Introduction
3
Thrift Store Hi-Fi: Some tips and tricks
4
Laserdisc's Failure: What Went Wrong
5
Chevy Bolt EV: Winter Range and Performance (Chicago winter)
6
Laserdisc: Features, Follies, & Evolution
7
Faking It: The Obviously Dubbed Telephone Ring
8
A Short Project Involving LEDs, a Fish Tank, and some Laziness
9
DVD: The Death Knell of Laserdisc
10
Sony's Clever but Flawed PlayStation Copy Protection--And How They Might Have Fixed It
11
The CD Player with a Robot Inside: Pioneer CLD-M301
12
These Are Not Pixels: Revisited
13
The Weird Typewriter-Computer Hybrid: Smith Corona PWP-3200
14
The LED Traffic Light and the Danger of "But Sometimes!"
15
Macrovision: The Copy Protection in VHS
16
MUSE Hi-Vision Laserdisc: The Blu-ray of 1994
17
Chevy Bolt EV Summer Range Test
18
The High Pressure Sodium Light: Ubiquitous, effective, but good?
19
The LED's Challenge to High Pressure Sodium
20
The Not-So-Secret Secret Elevators of the Haunted Mansion
21
The Most Common EV Charging Misconception
22
Betamovie: Sony's Terrible (But Ingenious) Camcorder
23
The Senseless Ambiguity of North American Turn Signals
24
Sound By Numbers: The Rise of Digital Sound
25
Nyquist-Shannon; The Backbone of Digital Sound
26
The GFCI/RCD: A Simple but Life-Saving Protector
27
The Compact Disc: An Introduction
28
Dissecting the CD Player: How to Turn Shiny Plastic into Music
29
LED Printers: The Common Printing Tech You Haven't Heard Of
30
An Oscilloscope Bonus: 20+ Minutes of Poking Around a CD player
31
CDs: More to Talk About (Sony vs. Philips)
32
TC Projects: Lead-Acid Battery Backup
33
CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, Books of Red, Blue, Purple, Beige, Orange, Scarlet...
34
The Ubiquitous Sound That You May Have Never Noticed
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35
LightScribe: HP's Clever Twist on the CD Burner
36
LED Experiments: Making Holiday Lights Less Garish
37
Closed Captioning: More Ingenious than You Know
38