Flexible Speakers
In October, the Wall Street Journal awarded the Industrial Industrial Research Institute in Taiwan the 2009 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award for their Flexspeaker loudspeaker design. The Flexspeaker is a thin flexible speaker that is the thickness of 3 or 4 sheets of paper. It is light, flexible, and inexpensive. What struck me about it was the many ways that it can be adapted to the audio visual industry. Some of the other features of this speaker is that it can be printed on, it can be cut to any size or shape, and it is very flexible.
Some ideas for using these speakers would be to print them as signage for the event. Or possibly to cover a podium, or hard set. Besides the obvious advantage of being able to integrate the speakers into a setup without having the unsightly boxes on sticks, they also are easier to transport and to setup or strike.
http://www.prlog.org/10376639-itris-flexpeaker-an-innovative-paperthin-speaker-technology-receives-2009.html
