Certainly plasma T.V.’s are amazing spectacles of technology, coaxing gas to arrange itself so we can watch the remake of the “Bionic Woman” in all its highly defined glory. But why the crappy speakers? Does the home theatre industry have some sort of strangle hold on T.V. manufacturers. With the Horn of Plasma ( also works for LCD’s, CRT’s or anything with a really cheap speaker built in) you can amplify, smoothify and beautify any sub-par sound into audio excellence. All it takes is the acoustically optimal shape of a horn and the daring to go back in time, to hear forward in sound.

Posted: October 8th, 2007 under nostalgia, sound.
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Sometimes when I lay my head down on the pillow at night, I feel like I’m in an old-time Kate Hepburn movie where she holds a glass up against a wall to listen to what’s going on next door.  Only.. I really don’t want to listen in on the neighbors’ late-night conversation or the car playing music outside.  It seems that the vibrations in the floor or walls are being transmitted directly through the structure of the building, up into the bed, through the depths of the pillow and into my poor ear that only wants to keep dreaming.

Why not make a sound-isolating pillow?  A pillow made of some really cool, decoupling foam.  I see it as a lot of little chunky foam squares.  Maybe also the pillow emits some white noise of its own too, like a seashell.

Posted: September 18th, 2007 under control, futureNow, sound.
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There are many ways to deny flatulence (“not me! it was… the dog, your kids, a gaseous oder from that strange factory”). Or some people try to go for an oscar and act their way out of it: a blank stare into space, a mean glare at a coworker, an intense monologue (“Alan Greenspan did wear a dress but never to congressional hearings… but his underwear choices…”).

Well, there are probably a dozen ways to stop farting (see other posts to come this Fall), but if you want to break wind and just not get blamed, then what you need is a stuffed animal to blame it on. Now I know what you’re going to say, stuffed animals don’t fart. But they could, I mean if you can get a doll that pees, why not a doll that farts? (They could come with various scents to match the pretend meals that you give them). And once your stuffed animal farts, there’s just one more player at the table to take the blame! Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey, who farts all the time.

Posted: September 18th, 2007 under control, public spaces, sound.
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It would be great if there was a resurgance of phone booths.   I especially think it would be cool for cafes to have phone booths that people can use to talk on their cell phones.  I would definitely buy a mango smoothie at that cafe.

I would also find a soundproof phone booth useful in my house.   Can you buy phonebooths for the home?  That would be a great idea.

Posted: July 27th, 2007 under public spaces, sound, working from home.
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