Hi Tech & Innovation
Sick of noise from construction work, speeding trains and car alarms flooding in through the open window of your tiny apartment in a crowded metropolis?
Sep 10, 2020
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Sony is kicking off its marketing blitz for the PlayStation 5 video game system.
Aug 25, 2020
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Machine learning & AI
The Center for Noise and Vibration Control at KAIST announced that their coughing detection camera recognizes where coughing happens, visualizing the locations. The resulting cough recognition camera can track and record ...
Aug 14, 2020
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Robotics
People rarely use just one sense to understand the world, but robots usually only rely on vision and, increasingly, touch. Carnegie Mellon University researchers find that robot perception could improve markedly by adding ...
Aug 14, 2020
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Robotics
In recent years, researchers have developed a growing amount of computational techniques to enable human-like capabilities in robots. Most techniques developed so far, however, merely focus on artificially reproducing the ...
Aug 10, 2020 feature
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Consumer & Gadgets
In this digital era, there has been growing concern that children spend most of their playtime watching TV, playing computer games, and staring at mobile phones with 'head-down' posture even outdoors.
Jul 28, 2020
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Hi Tech & Innovation
A team of researchers at Invictus Medical has found via simulated testing that their Neoasis active noise control device is able to reduce the noise level in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). They have written a paper ...
Jul 17, 2020 report
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Engineering
A new device that can reduce the intensity of sound passing through open windows is presented in a proof-of-principle study in Scientific Reports. It fits into a two-panel sliding window and can decrease the perceived loudness ...
Jul 09, 2020
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Computer Sciences
We listen to music with our ears, but also our eyes, watching with appreciation as the pianist's fingers fly over the keys and the violinist's bow rocks across the ridge of strings. When the ear fails to tell two instruments ...
Jun 26, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
The low-frequency, inaudible sounds made by wind power stations are not damaging to human health despite widespread fears that they cause unpleasant symptoms, research published in Finland on Monday said.
Jun 22, 2020
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Sound is a travelling wave which is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations.
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