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smokinAMD
09-02-2004, 01:20 PM
In my engineering lecture today, we had a guy from bose discussing employment oppourtunities and all the stuff you can do with various engineering degrees. He mentioned thier suspension project and it intrigued me.

From the way he was talking about it, it gives you the best of both worlds. Control and performance, while still being very comfortable.

From what I read about it, it uses variable electromagnetic motors to constantly adjust things.

Now, this sounds cool and everything. But I know its going to be hellatiously expensive. Now my only question is, will they ever enter mass production with something like this, and will they have an application that would work on our cars. I doubt the later considering the n-body platform is pretty much dead. Alero and Grand Am? Gone. Malibu moved onto something different.

Should be an interesting thing to follow.

http://www.bose.com/controller;jsessionid=...se_suspension.j (http://www.bose.com/controller;jsessionid=BvorzMXNunDZeMJ1liBSvrghYhhF Vbl1wg9en3fedppHJG2mRLs6!1879924776!-373760557?event=VIEW_STATIC_PAGE_EVENT&url=/learning/project_sound/suspension_challenge.jsp&pageName=/learning/project_sound/bose_suspension.j)

*Apparantly I never copied the link?*

cwm33
09-02-2004, 06:16 PM
volunteer your car as a test platform :thumbsup:

smokinAMD
09-02-2004, 08:43 PM
D'uh, never copied the link.

mfuller
09-02-2004, 09:16 PM
Great...another product for Bose to do half-assed and charge up the wazoo for.

FormulaNERD
09-02-2004, 10:05 PM
that's exactly what i was thinking mfuller. i have all bose crap for my home theater and i regret buying all of it. even though i got it at a decent price in europe.

mdodge
09-02-2004, 11:34 PM
:huh?: ...bose making suspensions?? I don't know about that one...

cwm33
09-03-2004, 11:45 AM
yeah that doesn't seem right to me...they can't even do speakers that well...now they want something that people will have to risk their lives to use? doesn't add up :blink:

koruptid
09-07-2004, 12:56 PM
thats like sony making a turbo

mdodge
09-07-2004, 03:22 PM
Originally posted by koruptid@Sep 7 2004, 12:56 PM
thats like sony making a turbo
..or sony making anything.

|Rev|
09-07-2004, 10:22 PM
Originally posted by mdodgealero+Sep 7 2004, 07:22 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (mdodgealero @ Sep 7 2004, 07:22 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-koruptid@Sep 7 2004, 12:56 PM
thats like sony making a turbo
..or sony making anything. [/b][/quote]
lmao! :lol:

I like Sony's PS's and that's about it though

koruptid
09-08-2004, 10:39 AM
yea the playstation is their only decent product and half the time my ps2 doesnt work <_<

BLK03GXS
09-08-2004, 05:23 PM
screw bose, Alpine Should make suspention

They rock :smokin:

alerored04
09-11-2004, 12:21 PM
i hear that, ne thing they do works great, but the price on one of those would be off the wall too!

2ndAlero
09-12-2004, 01:08 AM
Sounds like a highly more complex, and I'm betting more expensive, than current systems which were developed prior to the Bose Suspension system.

I believe the new Corvette has a suspension system that operates on a similar type concept, only it uses electromagnetic fluid which changes the damping of the strut. When a charge is applied the "fluid" can go from a liquid to a solid... and you can adjust the viscosity of the "fluid" by variable control of the electric charge applied.

Basically Bose developed the same system, but by using more of a voice coil application from their speaker designs.

Nothing all that fancy... in fact GM didn't make there system, it came out of off road racing (forgot the guy who invented it... but I know it's been featured on Rides or some similar show before).

Expensive stuff that magnetic fluid... a few people at my company have played around with that stuff for various uses in our products... neat stuff and I'm sure over the next 10 years you'll see some of the luxury brand cars have similar technology in them.

Steve03TropicTeal
09-12-2004, 03:53 PM
XLR also uses GM's Magnetic ride system.

2ndAlero
09-12-2004, 04:44 PM
Originally posted by Steve03TropicTeal@Sep 12 2004, 02:53 PM
XLR also uses GM's Magnetic ride system.
Would make sense because they are both built on the same platform (the Caddy XLR and the Chevy Vetter).

3.4Alero
09-13-2004, 04:54 PM
Car and Driver has a writeup on this suspension in the latest issue.