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SHARING LINKS VIA sound may sound like a weird way to do things, but while sharing a link via the web is easy, doing the same thing in person is pretty difficult.
In this case, sound is seen as the answer and is the basis for a new Google Chrome plugin.
Named Tone, the service uses your laptop’s speakers to share links from one laptop to another, provided they’re within hearing distance. Think Apple Airdrop but on a smaller scale and you have the right idea.
It’s experimental so the possibility of it not working is high, and it’s really designed to be used with laptops within the same room such as if you were in a meeting.
Yet this is much like another UK startup, Chirp, which offers a similar service, but also allows you to share via your smartphone.
It’s been around since 2011 and is currently on a crowdfunding campaign to raise £400,000 (€560,000). It has £241,790 (€338,000) so far with 35 days to go until its campaign ends.
It also has a Chrome version (it too is in beta) and in its description, it had this to say about its new rival.
We were pleasantly surprised yesterday to hear of the launch of Google Tone, a plugin for Chrome that… sends data as sound. This idea will be familiar to Chirp fans everywhere. Naughty Google: Tone is a clone.
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Tesla invented a way to wirelessly transfer electricity. Free electricity. That was years ago. Corporations didn’t like it. No profit for them.
Or to put it another way, the concept was financially unviable.
It also caught fire when being shown to investers if I remember correctly. Not that I was there, just that I heard it somewhere.
So wardenclyffe http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower was a success it just was denied money because tesla had developed a way of pulling electricity from the ionosphere. Replication of this technology has been tried with haarp http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Frequency_Active_Auroral_Research_Program good stuff by the great man who was not in it for the money unlike his great rival Thomas Edison.
When Edison tried to show the world the dangers of electricity (a.c vs his d.c) he did so by publicly electrocuting an elephant using AC current. It was so powerful that the elephant caught fire.. As did the first prisoner on whom it was used as an execution method…
Nothing to do with his free electricity system though.
AirDrop doesn’t work
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