Whilst this blog focuses on cutting edge technology, the Cyborg Ninja couldn't overlook the following news...
Details have emerged of the discovery of the oldest recording of the human voice. The historic archive pre-dates Edison's phonograph experiments by 17 years. The ten second clip is a recording of the French rhyme "Au clair de la lune" and can be heard by clicking here.
It was made on April 9, 1860, by Parisian inventor Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville on a device called the phonautograph that scratched sound waves onto a sheet of paper blackened by the smoke of an oil lamp.
The technology involved sounds simply incredible - paper! - but the story has been verified. Amazing to think that the sound was recorded at the time of the French Revolution!
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