Tag: SOUND

If you find yourself constantly inundated with background noise, be it office chatter, cars driving by, or obnoxious birds in your yard, you may have looked for solutions to escape. Sure, you could buy noise-canceling headphones, but thanks to some new research by a team of Israeli scientists, you might someday be able to buy yourself a black hole -- of sound. According to Discovery News, ...

We can already envision the flame fest on this one, so we'll just cut to the chase. Jonathan Berger, professor of music at Stanford, has been conducting some pretty interesting tests on incoming students, and he's been recording results that'll surely make audiophiles cringe. He has been asking his students to listen to tracks in MP3 format as well as in formats of much higher quality, all while ...

We're not quite sure how much related celebrating went on this past weekend, but the iconic Compact Disc managed to hit the big three-oh. The IEEE was credited with presenting its prestigious IEEE Milestone Award to Royal Philips Electronics for its contribution to the development of the CD, and as the story goes, the award coincides with the 30th anniversary of the "historic demonstration of ...

no Now here's a concept. A musical shirt with enough transistors to make even the hardest of hardcore nerd blush, and a long-sleeve garment fashionable enough to make even the world-class design student stop and admire. Mashed into one. The Musical toy piano shirt is that very piece, which was constructed to wow onlookers at the Electronic Textile workshop held this month in Switzerland. Packing ...

For those couples whose sex lives are on life support, here's the Dr. Kevorkian to put them out of their misery: Paul Lyons, U.S. patent holder of the "Force-Sensitive, Sound-Playing Condom," has figured out how to bring those monophonic cell phone ringtones to your favorite prophylactic. The invention will allow the user to record a song, message, or sound effect to a tiny chip contained in ...

Researchers at the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain have found that -- remarkably -- drilling holes into a wall yields better soundproofing, Unplggd and New Scientist report. Researchers discovered that holes with a three-millimeter diameter trapped and canceled out sound waves, which without the holes, would have penetrated the wall. Because the offending sound waves were larger ...

Thanks for keeping your promise, Yamaha. The almost unicorn-like Tenori-on music maker has at long last gone on sale here in America, offering USers willing to part with $1,200 the chance to get lost inside a cacophonic wilderness. Good luck finding one in stock. [Source: Tenori-On via CNET] ...

Every so often, someone comes along with an invention that confounds the experts. Peter Davey, a 92 year-old inventor and saxophonist, has a created device that looks like a small bent desk lamp, but can boil water in a matter of seconds, no matter the amount, using sound waves. Experts have yet to confirm how the device works, but apparently it does indeed work. Many doubt the man's claims that ...

Does your neighbor's dog bark incessantly all day and night, or worse, tell you to kill? Put down the arsenic-laced Scooby snacks and instead pick up Bark Free, a nifty little gadget that silences the sound of a dog barking from 30, 50 or 60 feet away depending on the model. When Fido barks, Bark Free flips on and emits ultrasonic sound waves, which are undetectable to the human ear. When the ...