Digital music players are one of the most purchased and widespread categories of personal products in the world today, owned by tens of millions of people. In the European Union alone, more than 10 million young people have them, and use them regularly, listening on average more than 2 hours per day on their headphon... |
30 January 2009
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Yet another Apple patent filing has been spotted on the Internet, this time involving an audio sensor to auto-adjust iPhone ringtones. While not exactly mind-blowing, Apple insists the invention be called theirs. So, here's the plan.Now, more than ever, devices such as TV sets, computers and mobile phones are be... |
22 January 2009
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There are extremely few vehicles that can attenuate the bumps and/or noises of a ride, especially when conditions are tougher than normal. And even those cannot reach the dampness level achieved by a novel technology from the French ARTEC Aerospace. The company's experts devised a vibration and acoustic attenuat... |
17 December 2008
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As of late, the levels of noise in the planet's oceans reached incredible levels and it doubles every decade, which affects marine mammals' breeding and feeding habits in a negative way. The relatively new sources of noise, such as ships, oil platforms (which generate seismic blasts), low-frequency son... |
24 September 2008
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"Since the Apple SoHo store moved in six years ago, it has become the worst neighbor in SoHo," wrote SoHo Alliance director Sean Sweeney in the letter addressed to city and state elected officials and Apple Inc.'s management. Seemingly, the last straw was a Jonas Brothers concert at the SoHo store earlier this m... |
22 August 2008
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As Mac users, we like to think of ourselves as hard working individuals who (no surprise here) have gone with the best computing solution out there. The Mac is intuitive, which makes it a pleasure to use in any circumstances... except for when your roommates are noisy. There's a way to "even things out" though.N... |
20 August 2008
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It is well known that electronic devices work better when subjected to low temperatures. The reason is very simple. The electrical resistance of materials is in direct relation with temperature. Higher temperature means higher electrical resistance and ultimately higher power loss. With enhanced temperature, thermal ... |
1 April 2008
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The left cortical hemisphere realizes this through an acoustical technique named "simultaneous masking", which enables the brain to distinguish one sound even when it comes together with competing sounds and noises. Also named frequency masking, the process often takes place when two or more sounds with a similar fre... |
19 November 2007
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Have you ever heard of magnets making noise? It's called the Barkhausen effect and it's a name given to the noise in the magnetic output of a ferromagnet when the magnetizing force applied to it is changed.It's easy for scientists to measure the minute thermal fluctuations in the magnetization of ferr... |
24 May 2007
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Samsung Electronics, one of the leaders in advanced semiconductor technology, announced recently an 8.4 megapixel CMOS image sensor (CIS) with a 1.4 pixel design at Samsung's fourth annual Mobile Solution Forum.The new CIS chip provides a high signal to noise ratio (SNR), a key measure of overall image quality. ... |
27 March 2007
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