Speakers made of micron thick wood:

https://phys.org/news/2019-11-single-digit-micrometer-thickness-wood-speaker.html

Higher frequency of resonance and mechanical stability gives superior response to audio and the speaker worked very well as a sensitive microphone.

@sonhouse

I always had immense admiration for wood. Its strength, durability, lightness and zero toxicity is simply wonderful.

@bunnyknight said
@sonhouse

I always had immense admiration for wood. Its strength, durability, lightness and zero toxicity is simply wonderful.

Splinters can cause scepticaemia.

@DeepThought
In that case, playing chess could be devastating: A pawn could slip off the table and land on a cat; the startled cat then jumps onto the dog; the dog then sprints away and bumps into your mother who is carrying a pot of boiling water, and the boiling water spills all over the dog.

@bunnyknight said
@DeepThought
In that case, playing chess could be devastating: A pawn could slip off the table and land on a cat; the startled cat then jumps onto the dog; the dog then sprints away and bumps into your mother who is carrying a pot of boiling water, and the boiling water spills all over the dog.

I admit that possibility had never occurred to me.
How stupid and inconsiderate of me.
I will for now on take great care to not carelessly let a pawn slip off the table when playing chess.

@bunnyknight
And that makes up their mind what kind of meat they have for dinner!

@sonhouse said
@bunnyknight
And that makes up their mind what kind of meat they have for dinner!

.... And also explains the origin of the word "hot dog".

@bunnyknight said
.... And also explains the origin of the word "hot dog".

Nah, that was because of the results of an early Food Standards Agency investigation.

@DeepThought
I thought that was about early China town 'Hot Cat'......