Holosonics is pleased to announce its recent installation of the Audio Spotlight® directional sound technology in the most popular museum in the world. The installation, designed by notable multimedia designer and artist Alan Stone, is in the National Air and Space Museum's Centennial of Flight Exhibition, "The Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age," which celebrates 100 years of powered flight. The recently opened exhibition at the Smithsonian includes the original 1903 Wright Flyer, and honors the technical achievements of Wilbur and Orville Wright, as well as the worldwide impact of their pioneering work.

The Audio Spotlight, invented by Holosonics founder Dr. F. Joseph Pompei while a graduate student at MIT, uses ultrasonic energy to create extremely narrow beams of sound that behave like beams of light. By "shining" the sound to one location, specific listeners can be targeted with sound - without others nearby hearing it. This degree of sonic control, unmatched by any other sound system in the world, permits the Museum to fashion a highly localized listening region for their visitors.

Companies such as Motorola, Time-Warner, DaimlerChrysler, Kraft Foods, Sega, and American Greetings have chosen the Audio Spotlight, and Audio Spotlight systems have been installed in venues such as Boston's Museum of Science, the Matisse Museum, Sega's Joypolis, Bibliotheque National de France, Boston Center for the Arts, the European PGA tour, and the Chicago Cultural Center. Pompei was recently honored with a "Top Young Innovator" award from Technology Review Magazine for his achievements.

The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, with over 161,000 square feet of exhibition floor space, is the most popular museum in the world, attracting on average more than 9 million visitors each year. The Museum maintains the largest collection of historic air and spacecraft in the world, and hundreds of artifacts on display including the original Wright 1903 Flyer, the "Spirit of St. Louis," Apollo 11 command module, and a Lunar rock sample that visitors can touch. The museum continues to develop new exhibits to examine the impact of air and space technology on science and society.

Smithsonian Wright Brothers information

About Holosonic Research Labs, Inc.

Holosonic Research Labs, Inc., a pioneer in directional acoustics, develops and manufactures the Audio Spotlight® directional sound system. Founded in 1999 by MIT graduate Dr. F. Joseph Pompei, Holosonics' Audio Spotlight technology is used in a wide variety of applications including museums, libraries, offices, reception areas, retail displays, trade shows and retail kiosks. The world's top organizations and companies such as Cisco, Motorola, the Smithsonian Institute, the Tate Modern and Time-Warner use the Audio Spotlight directional sound system to beam sound to their listeners... and preserve the quiet.™

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