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Making Your Room Quiet

Posted by Hemos on from the ssshh-SHUT-UP dept.

el_flynn writes "This may be a cure for those of you with loud computers, or perhaps those who spend lots of time in NOC rooms that generate lots of noise: NewScientist.com mentions about a "Silence Machine" that gets rid of unwanted noise. I want one to quiet down my neighbour's loud dogs. " These are also being tested in cars, to make the car quieter. I've got a pair of the headphones that the article alludes to - they make airplane travel much nicer, and having something like this to cancel machine noise would be excellent.

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  1. Cancles by Anonymous+DWord · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    I remember at the end of the NFL season, John Madden was going on and on about cankles. They'd zoom in on some guy's cankles, and he'd circle 'em. Pretty funny stuff.

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  2. Re:Sad day ... Stephen King dead by Spazholio · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm gonna need some backup on this one....I've been scouring the news sites, and can't find anything about this...what radio station did you hear it on? They have a website?

  3. Re:PC Speaker? by laserjet · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    moderators: why is this modded down? this has serious potential in the future and should not be discounted.

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  4. Invisibility machine by SpaceTux · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I wonder when this trick will be possible with light rays instead of audio waves :)

  5. Re:Beyond! by n-baxley · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Well, you knew that we couldn't have a story on slashdot without a paranoid, anti-establishment post getting modded up over 2.

    Sigh

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