Inside these machines are printed circuit boards capable of causing images to appear on a television picture screen and sounds to emanate from a speaker when an electric current is passed through them.
You can name that tune -- Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry Be Happy". The song was wildly popular in the 1980s, playing seemingly nonstop on the radio and MTV, and when it wasn't emanating from a nearby speaker, it seemed that everyone I knew was singing it.
The primary hypothesis addressed was that children's strong tendency to fuse spectral components of speech signals might be based on a strategy of perceptual organization in which components are fused when they are recognized as emanating from a single speaker.
It may be difficult for today's young TV addicts to comprehend, but there was a time when radio reigned supreme in the land, when entire families settled back in their easy chairs to savor everything from murder mysteries to sitcoms emanating from a little box with a speaker.
But it was Wilson's distorted and unmistakably lugubrious voice emanating from a ring of tannoy speakers, underlining the point that Beckett's 1958 play had as much in common with the tape experiments of composers such as Stockhausen and Xenakis than anything else going on in the theatre at the time.
On Saturday, however, the two D.J.s, one supplemented by two live drummers, played until 1 a.m., the music emanating from a series of high-powered speakers on elevated poles.
To add to the magic, the soothing notes of a violin emanated from a hidden speaker in the balloon.
Odd smells emanating from a college dormitory.
Was it a natural caution emanating from a circumspect coach?
One of the biggest annoyances when watching a presentation is to hear distracting noises emanating from the speaker.
Adjusting the music that was emanating from the speaker of his iPhone the Smiths Michele got up from his seat to make more refinements.
