In what could prove to be a huge boost for the audio performance of the growing number of ultra thin flat panel TV's a team at Warwick University has developed an ultra slim speaker technology.
Flat Flexible Loudspeakers (FFL) are similar to electrostatic speakers but at just 0.25mm thick they can cover a much larger surface area and could also be customized to fit any object or contour. Essentially, these speakers move air as a bulk mass rather than from a single point of origin (giving much wider coverage).
In theory we could see FFL speakers covering walls doors tables and of course, those ultra slim flat panel TV's we are all growing more accustomed to.
The new speaker technology, unlike traditional conical speakers, transmit sound straight which in the words of Steve Couchman, CEO of Warwick Audio Technology, the company that will sell FLL later this year, ensures that "the sound, volume and quality does not deteriorate as it does in conventional speakers which means that public announcements in passenger terminals could be clearer, crisper and easier to hear."
The constituent material of the new technology is a flexible laminate that is composed of a number of thin, alternately conducting and insulating materials which importantly, are relatively cheap and simple to manufacture.
Warwick Audio Technology will almost certainly license the new speaker system and we could even see a product based on FFL later this year.
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