Sound Logic

MTU Students Create Speakers From Snow

You have to hand it to a group of engineering students at Michigan Technology University – for designing sound speakers made out of snow. For a memorable photograph, go to SciFi.com/tech and I’m sure you’ll enjoy Peter Pachal’s review of their effort, just as much as I did. Well done, Peter for bringing that to our attention. And of course, well done to the students for their amazing effort to pump out 20,000 watts out of something encased in snow. It was all part of the statewide snow-sculpture competition, but the MTU students didn’t win. Alas, not every element in the speakers was crafted from snow.

FOOTNOTE: So that’s what they mean by ``snowball effect’’.