Comments on: AMAZING NEW “LISTEN-IN-COIL” (Jan, 1964) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/09/22/amazing-new-listen-in-coil/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:12:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Village Idiot http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/09/22/amazing-new-listen-in-coil/comment-page-1/#comment-571091 Village Idiot Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:41:10 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/09/22/amazing-new-listen-in-coil/#comment-571091 Yay! It's so much fun to violate other's privacy; you never know what you'll hear next! ...While I sat in my lonely apartment playing back recordings of other people going about their lives, it never occured to me that I'd never gotten a life of my own, unless being a hermetic sleazeball or a for-profit parasite counts as a life... Yay! It’s so much fun to violate other’s privacy; you never know what you’ll hear next!

…While I sat in my lonely apartment playing back recordings of other people going about their lives, it never occured to me that I’d never gotten a life of my own, unless being a hermetic sleazeball or a for-profit parasite counts as a life…

]]> By: Stannous http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/09/22/amazing-new-listen-in-coil/comment-page-1/#comment-536440 Stannous Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:43:26 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/09/22/amazing-new-listen-in-coil/#comment-536440 Blurgle- Great sight'em! Blurgle-
Great sight’em!

]]> By: Blurgle http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/09/22/amazing-new-listen-in-coil/comment-page-1/#comment-534516 Blurgle Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:46:31 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/09/22/amazing-new-listen-in-coil/#comment-534516 Of course, it'd work better if she weren't holding the telephone receiver upside down. Of course, it’d work better if she weren’t holding the telephone receiver upside down.

]]> By: Jake of All Trades http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/09/22/amazing-new-listen-in-coil/comment-page-1/#comment-532417 Jake of All Trades Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:27:01 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/09/22/amazing-new-listen-in-coil/#comment-532417 Haha, no, it's likely based around something called a "pickup coil"--basically a reverse electromagnet. When subjected to an electromagnetic field (like, say from the speaker in a telephone), a small current is induced in the coil. Hook this up to an amplifier or a transmitter and, taa-daa, you can hear electricity! Like the ad says, this enables you to hear the voice signals inside phones and such. I actually have a little pocket-sized one that I use as a sort of stethoscope for electronics. Put it near different parts of a computer and you can actually hear the data! Haha, no, it’s likely based around something called a “pickup coil”–basically a reverse electromagnet. When subjected to an electromagnetic field (like, say from the speaker in a telephone), a small current is induced in the coil. Hook this up to an amplifier or a transmitter and, taa-daa, you can hear electricity! Like the ad says, this enables you to hear the voice signals inside phones and such. I actually have a little pocket-sized one that I use as a sort of stethoscope for electronics. Put it near different parts of a computer and you can actually hear the data!

]]> By: Stannous http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/09/22/amazing-new-listen-in-coil/comment-page-1/#comment-531414 Stannous Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:06:59 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/09/22/amazing-new-listen-in-coil/#comment-531414 2 cans and a string? 2 cans and a string?

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