Parso Wireless Wearable Unidirectional Speaker Delivers Personal Sound

Japanese company AFUR has announced the launch of Parso, a wireless, wearable, unidirectional speaker design that "only you can hear." The highly directional speaker uses ultrasonic elements to achieve its narrow directivity for personal listening. The new Wearable Parametric Speaker (Patent Pending) design is scheduled to enter production in mid 2022, but the company is promoting the concept to evaluate market interest in new application areas.

Flexound Augmented Audio, the company from Finland that is exploring the full combined potential of haptics and wireless audio in consumer products, is also developing multisensory solutions for cinema, gaming and therapy. After exploring the technology in commercial movie theaters, Flexound now introduced the Pulse seat that offers an affordable and captivating home cinema experience, scaling easily to large multi-seat rooms.

Noveto Systems announced the successful completion of a bridge of $10 Million from renowned technology investors Adit Ventures, a firm that has invested in some of the world’s leading disruptive companies, with exits in GoPro, Spotify, Palantir and Lyft. The investment is set to enable rapid company expansion and help promote Noveto's revolutionary personal sound beaming concept to new markets.

Noveto Systems took CES 2018 by storm when it demonstrated its technology allowing completely focused audio beams for conferencing, automotive and entertainment zoning applications. Now, the company returns in 2020 to release the first part of its Chipset driving Noveto Smart Audio, the world's first dynamic focused sound solution, enabling to precisely generate sound to the users' ears. With the chip introduction, Noveto will debut some product concepts for Gaming and Entertainment, including a Home System for 3D sound.