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NEXT BIG THING?

G P IN YOUR NS

H eadphones full of pencil lead? What’s so special about it? Why hasn’t anyone used this before?
Well, it’s not that easy. We’ve long been promised
Well, it’s at once 25 times stronger than steel
Sort of. Graphene is a single atomic
and four times lighter. Plug those qualities into
layer of graphite, but it can do a whole
that graphene would revolutionise all sorts of
lot more than sketch out molecular the right formula and you’ll find GrapheneQ tech, but it’s taken until now for someone to work
doodles. Some clever folk at Ora have managed delivers all kinds of audio benefits: louder drivers out how to make these speaker membranes
to cram this much-hyped nanotechnology into that use less energy, an extended frequency on an industrial scale. In fact, it took the minds
a set of headphones (in the form of GrapheneQ), response and less interference. Essentially, of several boffins from three North American
and it seems it’s really rather good at making it’s a magic wand for your ’phones. Most of the universities to get there – and it’s captured
noises. Cheaper and easier to work with than benefits come from the fact that GrapheneQ a lot of attention: Ora’s GQ headphones rapidly
standard graphene, this nanocomposite version speaker cones don’t vibrate and wobble like the surpassed their CA$135,000 goal on Kickstarter, [ Words Chris Rowlands ]
has been tweaked to suit acoustic situations, ones in your average set of cans, eliminating so you should soon be able to experience the
delivering an expansive sonic experience full of unwanted noise and keeping the sound sharper GrapheneQ revolution for yourself, for the not
distortion-free detail and precision. than a revising student after three coffees. so revolutionary sum of US$499.
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