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In an era when the flames emoji reigns supreme (no pun intended) and the goal of any given Saturday (or Tuesday) is to find a party that’s “lit,” it’s easy to forget the basics of fire safety, much less consider the dangers of becoming too lit.
Enter George Mason University engineering students Viet Tran and Seth Robertson, young gods of science who casually invented a new way to fight fires: just turn up the bass. In the video below, the duo demonstrate their new age fire extinguisher, a machine that emits sound waves at 30-60 Hertz. Because of science (the sound waves come between oxygen and the burning object), the low sounds put out the fire.
Tran would “like to see this applied to swarm robotics, where it’d be attached to a drone, and that would be applied to forest fires or even building fires where you wouldn’t want to sacrifice human life.” Essentially Diplo could be the next Smokey the Bear**.
Check out the device in action, and keep this helpful science tip in mind next time the turn-up goes from flames, to going up in flames.
**This probably won’t happen.
