I'm used to a stationary mic.

I removed the microphone from that, and then just pinched that like I just made a clip out of the microphone and clipped that to a piece of paper, any paper that you found around.

Tom put his hand over the microphone.

I've moved the microphone 20 centimeters.

It has speakers on it. And it has cameras over the surface of it.

Your mic wasn't off during sound check.

For example, when I walked up here and I took the microphone from the stand and switched it on, you assumed this was a microphone, which it is not.

Create scores on the fly by recording from mic

And if I do this, probably the mic won't hear it.

And this kind of thing would have been impossible without a microphone.

You know, the thing with microphones in the room and all that day.

Max Weber thought that was peculiarly Protestant.

Speakers will have to adapt the microphone to their height.

So far, a lot of the stuff that was on the radio was live music, but singers, like Frank Sinatra, could use the mic and do things that they could never do without a microphone.

When you see the microphone, say ... ... yes to decide.

And it makes a very bad microphone I've tried it many times.

DH Excuse me, could we work on the design of the microphone?

So, what I did here is remove the camera All the webcam cameras have a microphone inside the camera.

But the main reason I did it is that that's what happens to me when I'm forced to wear a Lady Gaga skanky mic.

We went a bought a flashlight with a very big battery, and a bunch of small speakers.

Microphones enabled singers, in particular, and musicians and composers, to completely change the kind of music that they were writing.

Even when you're standing in front of a megaphone, it's pretty much every direction.

And it's a dummy head that sits in front of the instrument, and it's got microphones where the ears are.

I also wish to use my access to the microphone to wish Ambassador Volker Heinsberg all the best in his new and important mission.

Can you imagine? From that stupid bacteria to us, with a microphone, with a computer, with an iPod four billion years.

This is from McGill and University of Michigan. This is the RHex, making its first outing in a demo.

And I should also mention that, just like today, at that PostSecret event, I was using a wireless microphone.

Commentator Byron MacDonald thought his mic was turned off when he started to dispense some of his own opinions at the end of the women's 4x200m freestyle relay final.

BJ Not being able to talk to one another while they're onstage because they're mic'd.

But everything, all the cameras, and the microphones, and the sensors in cars and everything is connected to this machine.

And the camera is down at her, and this guy has to put the microphone in her face, said, What do you mean by that?

That's Mike, Mike comes out from Mississippi.

Please welcome Claron McFadden.

I call him Mike.

I've been working on my new record and I've never played these songs for anybody except the microphone.

And he proposed this machine called the memex.

And he says, Hey Mike.

Nellie McKay sings Clonie

Mike and Ken are friends.

Did you hear that, Mike?

Claron McFadden Singing the primal mystery

Michael Pritchard Okay.

And so he suggested a machine, and he called it the memex.

And you don't have to now go and instrument living rooms with microphones to get people's conversations, you just tune into publicly available social media feeds.

He is filmed, photographed and placed under microphone surveillance, guarded round the clock by four wardens and subjected to subhuman conditions of detention, which have affected his health.