This week with Arlene and Jeff:
...Back inside, he put the projectors down and began to describe their function to Morales and his women. (Jeff's people already knew about his latest invention.)
Morales squatted by one of the projectors as he checked out the seemingly complicated instrumentation on its top. "So, are these anything like the noise-canceling earphones that are so popular on commercial aircraft these days?"
"Sorry, but no - well, only vaguely. The noise-canceling earphones have circuitry that reads the incoming sound from the microphone, determines its frequency and amplitude, then produces a new wave that's 180 degrees out of phase, effectively canceling the incoming sound as it is rebroadcast to your ear. To broadly simplify, my device nullifies from a very low frequency to the highest frequency gamma rays, somewhere around 10 to the 25th hertz, and in doing so, it creates an adjustable sphere where no sound or other like radiation can penetrate while leaving the inside of the sphere unchanged.
"Now, say that two operatives of our government have to discuss aspects of the mission they are on, and, of course, utmost secrecy is of vital importance. With this, they can sit in a car or even at a table in a busy restaurant. No sound that they produce will penetrate the sphere around their vehicle, table, or anywhere else they set up the bubble, and no listing device will detect a thing. Now," he said while motioning to the cube, I've reached the point where I need to miniaturize the thing, at least to a size needed to convince a manufacturer that it can be further reduced to a practicable size, and thus salable. Of course, the manufacturer will significantly reduce the size even more than I can, and should wind up with something the size of a pack of cigarettes, and maybe one day even to the size of a watch - in other words, Wainwright, Inc.
"I've tested the device in my lab, but this is going to be its first real-world trial."...
Have a goodun;
Roust