A potential feature I didn't know I needed. Have headphones with ANC on around home all the time, would be really useful if it auto passthrough my partners voice.
I would be happy with ANC with a doorbell passthrough. Missed a few package deliveries this way. But maybe that could also be achieved with a desktop notification.
We watch ads, not by force, but voluntarily for free services or currencies in mobile games. Politicians can do basically whatever they want. We have cameras and even glasses that record everything we do. V-Tubers are more popular by the minute. People get blackmailed for their online activities, wrong as they might be. Kids walk around with parent-forced app's to track their location and online life. Robot dogs are being sold to the public and being used by the military. People care more about filming something or the documentary than the event itself.
Just to nitpick one point, I personally think we've passed the peak of popularity for vtubers and it will settle down to a slightly lower level. Having been one myself, I've seen the other side and I think a combination of lockdown and the launch of Holo-EN made a lot of people try it, before realising it didn't work for them
lol. My partner and I share a home office and I've worn ear plugs + my range headphones (or my bose 700s) and I can still hear her clacking away and talking on meetings. I'm sure I'm some kind of spaz but god I wish I had something that could completely mute all sounds except my rain sounds. lol
You want iems. The same kind of earphones musicians wear on sets. The cons is that they can be uncomfortable for long periods. I’m right next to a night club and I’m glad I have a pair lying around.
ANC does not block voices. It's probably passive sound protection in your headphones that causes your partner's voice to sound weak and not go through to your ear. Or plain and simple, just the music you listen to that masks the voice.
The only case ANC would block your partners voice would be if it is about as high/low level as the background noise/sound so that it is all mixed into a white or colored noise which ANC can suppress.
Highly doubtful, it's just a microphones and the speakers that emit inverted sound waves.
This is one of the safest technologies I can imagine.
It's more likely that the radio waves from wireless communication (phones, Bluetooth headphones etc) will have negative impact, but even that's unlikely at this point, considering how widespread their use is and no statistically significant link exists.
Sure but it's combined noise on top of existing sound waves that gets me. They don't cancel out midair, they cancel out in your brain right?
And yeah, I also don't trust all these radio waves we have going everywhere and wonder if big events with hundreds of thousands of phones are doing at least some damage.
Things seem unlikely til we realise. Like plague spreading through bad smells. We were close but dismissive.
Anyway I hope I'm not right, but it still plays in my mind.
> don't cancel out midair, they cancel out in your brain right?
No, they cancel out in front of your ears. If you imagine a bowl of water which has waves on it with a small buoy, then the noise cancelling is another wave emitter placed in front of the buoy that cancells out the Waves that are about to hit the buoy.
It's a very physical technology. The amazing/magical part of it is that the microphones pick up the Waves quickly enough for the headphones to emit the inverted wave.
Okay I just assumed it was both waves coming to shore and they fell in such a way that lessened both of them. But if they're colliding outside the ear then I feel a bit better now.
I thought so, but I live in pretty quiet neighbourhood with ~8 hours of ANC which enables quietter playback volume, versus growing up in a very loud metropolis where bustle was non stop and blasting headphones in before ANC days.
TBH at this point, I wouldn't even object to losing my hearing to have forever ANC (hearing loss) and turning up the hearing aid.
E: no offense to those with hearing loss in this thread
