Secretly Turning People's Windows Into Giant Speakers With Amplified Vibrations 

Next level: add a microphone, and make it only amplify the sounds that the people make inside the house

Imagine hitting the natural resonant frequency and breaking their window

What's scary is that this can easily be reversed to make windows into a microphone.

For anyone of you who is looking for this product, it's calles HumBird speaker

Imagine putting a huge version of one of these on a large boat, and sending out into a lake...

Next, can you turn people’s speakers into giant windows?

I misread the title as “Secretly Turning People’s Windows Into Giant Spiders” Quite relieved I don’t have to worry about that.

The real question is, if you put the speaker on your forehead, does it reverberate through your bones and making *you* the speaker? And could you subsequently hear the music inside your own head?

"Secretly turning people's windows into giant vibrators"

PUT IT ON THE GROUND DO IT I DARE YOU

That's one of the best sounding doors I've ever heard.

Imagine playing rickroll music, you can easily rickroll people with that easily

Imagine walking on the road and hear the road singing i believe i can fly.

"Can we get a speaker?" *We have speaker at home.* Speaker at home: Literally you and everything

For anyone interested, this particular device is most likely a Damson Cisor. If you pause the video at 5:27 (if you pause it and click on that timestamp, you might have to unpause it and then quickly repause it to get a better view), he basically holds the Damson logo up to the camera, albeit sideways. Good sir, if it wouldn't cause any issues (legal, sponsor-related, etc), perhaps consider listing products demonstrated in your videos in the description so that those interested can find them for their own use.

I like how when you go from the fridge to the door you can really hear the difference in material. The door has a really nice hi-fi sound with pronounced low end and trebel and a dip in the mids.

The water just turns into a visualizer. Also, the drum can make great horror movie soundtracks.

Turn the House of Representatives into a subwoofer.

The patterns in the water are amazing - thanks!

door and fridge song: everytime i fall - hallman baking tray song: aaalright - cospe

Imma rick roll the entire neighborhood.

Don't dare to put it on ground or the whole world will vibrate.

Thanks so lot for your very cool videos! I wish, someone like you would have been my physics teacher back then in my school time. I like your always surprising and highly inspirating physic experiments. I have an interesting note about this video. Try putting the speaker on your own head. I also have one of these speakers myself and have tried it out once. This feels like the music is IN YOUR OWN HEAD, that is absolutely overwhelming! Best greets from Germany!!

me: **places on ground** everyone on earth: 🕺🕺🕺

imagine putting it on someone's forehead.

4:06 Minecraft cave sounds be like

This is absolutely brilliant. I definitely want to use one of these to convince my friends that their new house is haunted. That’d be fun. 😂

This is by far my new favorite video by The Action Lab

I like how he uses non copyright weird music Lmao

"Turns anything into a speaker" Me: I'm a speaker

I stumbled on your channel and have learned so much so far. Channel is awesome brother, keep up the good work 🙏✌️👍

Now put it on the windows of strangers until they start going insane, thinking they're having auditory hallucations. Then leave them alone. A month later, return, do it again. Repeat the last part, but randomize how many months you wait, until they turn into nothing but a hollow shell of their former selves. Edit: I forgot, make sure to randomize the sound/ song, maybe make it something like carnival music one time, then maybe laughing another, then maybe Jesus Techno the other

You should have played spooky ghost noises on your neighbor's windows.

Puts it on the ground aliens on a different planet: they lit over there

Amazing this also explains why sound is super lethal in high decibels and other more complicated situations

When you see it in the water, it's amazing how chaotic sound really looks.

Alternate Title: Man Sneaks into people's yards to make their day a little musical.

Did you notice how every neighbour found him so quickly. Because they knew if anything goes wrong in the neighborhood it would probably be him. (This is just a joke).

Oh, there was a great video a while ago about using these (or at least the basic components) to make your own DIY massive flat panel speakers.

At 1:57 its very interesting how better the vibrations perform on wood surfaces, that explains why most loudspeakers or even amplificators have a wooden structure

This is absolutely hilarious

3:17 It would be cool is you could somehow flash freeze that water while it's rippling like that. Not sure how you could do it but it would be neat.

1:59 Also demonstrating how awesome the song is.

Puts a whole new meaning to bass and “ I felt that”

James: I decided to have an impromptu party at my friends' houses without them knowing Also James: **sets up camera inside friends' houses**

This is next level

That is essentially how plate reverb works. Transducer hits a steel plate, pickup at the other end sends out the resulting resonance. Fun thing about that is using other materials for your plate. I tried a cymbal once and the result was definitely unique if not all that musical.

That water scene looked dope🤩🔥

Where can i buy this? Library has a big window that is in front of bookshelf, no one can see me but they can definetly hear me! Finnaly edit: Sorry if it took so long but the Library was down due to virus, when it opened first i prepared so no security was there, got my phone and put the speaker. Whole Library heard "Danzig-Mother" everyone was shocked and they were looking what was making the sound, until one proffesor moved the bookshelf and found me holding speaker onto the window and diying of laughter....Well let's say i had to pay 70$ fee XD. Also my dumbass brain forgot to click record on my phone so good footage lost.... *cry*

It's all fun and games until the glass breaks.

Today, we watch as James slowly slips into insanity due to lockdown as he creeps through the neighborhood turning unsuspecting houses into raving sonic weapons.

First time I saw these devices was back in the 1970s. They were sold to make the walls of a room act as speakers. With a signal splitter/controller it could produces some interesting quadraphonic and super wide stereo effects. After a year or so of use people found that the constant vibrations loosened the nails holding the walls together, causing structural damage to the walls. They were only on the market for a few years due to "bad press" and law suits.

Once upon a time, there was a thief who gets into other's houses and plays music.

Imagine sticking this on to people and playing their body's natural frequency.

Those sound thruster things are really cool and fascinating

The spring drum sounded great. Good foley device for a thunderstorm

I'm just curious. Where did you get this "speaker"?

I appear to have been teleported to a universe where The Action Lab uses titles you would see from Vlog Creations.

1:28 when you chilling in your house and the boss music starts playing

So awesome 👏🏻!!!

I like how the quality of sound differed from that fridge and the door (door had more bass, fridge had more temper)😂😂

He's so happy doing all this! It makes me happy that there are people out there who are not all drowned into politics and social problems

My neighbor reading a book Me: We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it Inside we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it And if you ask me how I'm feeling Don't tell me you're too blind to see Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give, never gonna give (Give you up) We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it Inside we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye

This is quality content, you must be the funnest dad ever!

Hmmmmmmm interesting! Well I mean that sums up every episode

Another interesting product that produces sound in an unique way is the soundlazer. It was an indigogo or kickstarter product that utilized ultrasound emitters with a special amplifier to create truly directional sound. Basically the sound waves travel in a tight wave. Truly unique.

Thank You, I Love This

I used to live next to a busy street. Sometimes it was hard to fall asleep at night because the street noise was just to annoying. Maybe applying device to your window with some chill music would cancel out the incoming street noise.

"When i say anything. I mean anything" - Action lab

FIB:Write that down!WRITE THAT DDDDOWWWWN!!!!!!!. Edit:Thx for likes please subscribe. Kinda rhymes

This would be cool to use for sound design. You could make some good sounds with this.

You should have done a part of the video where the speaker was on one of the sides of the vacuum chamber and see how that void of air behind and around it affects the sound.

1:22 How to sneak into houses. Best tutorial ever!

PLAY THE RICKROLL THROUGH YOUR NEIGHBORS HOUSE

It soo sick the way it moves the water 😱🤯

Love the Akira music featured in this demo.

Place it on top of those school lamps in the hallways , and it would take the school staff a whole day to figure this one out , especially form the echo in the big halls .

I would love to see that in action under a circular pan of oobleck.

WHAT ! THIS IS SO COOL!!

That thunder noise maker reminds me of an instrument called the Yaybahar. Similar except there's no case for the "drum" and the spring is attached to the bottom of a stringed instrument, which is then played with a bow

Hearing the fast pace techno oudda nowhere in my own home. I could only imagine in that moment I'm the protagonist and it's all starting

How about.... Some Rick rolling?

I actually had a couple of these transducers. They work great at parties with a subwoofer!

I'd like to have seen a little more of those pranks with people secretly in on it and recording. Hilarious!

That’s one hell of a way to announce your arrival somewhere

“Oops, I dropped it” And that is how the planet fell off course

Awesome techno music. 🙂 I love your show. You show great science. 🙂

So cool!

Someone could make some cool water effects with that

Alternate title: The action lab guy becomes a supervillain.

If I remember correctly, before the advent of reverb pedals and suchlike, one of the first devices for producing a reverb effect exploited the sympathetic resonance of springs attached to a membrane similar to your drum. If you played music or sang near it, the springs would start noodling slightly and echoing the sound.

Could you demonstrate measuring the different EQ's and harmonic patterns different objects have!

Conversely, the window can also be an effective microphone. The CIA and others have used that, and a variation in which an Infrared laser is fired at the window, for surveillance work. The vibration from sound within the room causes a Doppler shift of the reflected laser light, which can be demodulated. Check the local legality of the techniques before you try them!

I would like to know where I could possibly purchase. One of those insane speaker Bluetooth?

Thats super cool i want it

Good stuff for Cymatics

The walls don't have ears anymore.

Imagine playing something like Kill everbody, Kyoto or any other song with heavy bass. It'd vibrate like crazy😬

It would be great if you could get a good quality spectrum analyzer to judge response of best materials across the full range of the spectrum. It could help us make our own if you could also try out commonly available speakers and materials, as well as testing different means of fastening them, how exactly, and trying out frames. It could be a great multi episode do it yourself series.

I am 100% diggin that shirt man👍👍