Smart glass
UK firm FeONIC uses Terfenol-D - a 'smart', reactive material that expands and contracts at very high frequency when stimulated by a magnetic field, called 'magnetostriction' - to make any hard, flat surface into an audio speaker with perfect directional sound.
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