Thursday 9 July 2020

The Sound of Silence


                                        

Workers at Southampton University have developed a speaker system that can be fitted to a window to cancel out external noise (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jul/09/noise-control-sound-wave-system-cancels-out-drum-of-traffic). This will enable people to sleep with the window open in hot weather without being disturbed by traffic noise. Sounds good to me!

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