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I'm still not sure if that means we're now officially in The Future, or just in a 1970s version, because we've known about acoustic cancellation for years (I learned about it as a callow youth in my second or third year at secondary school) but it seemed to take forever for the technology to be implemented in a way that didn't require the consumer to carry around two lead acid batteries, an oscilloscope, three rheostats and a condenser microphone. So that's progress, I guess.
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Monday, July 11, 2011
Quiet down
Three years ago I was hanging around Heathrow airport with nothing better to do, so I paid for a pair of Sennheiser noise-cancelling headphones and had a blissfully quiet flight to Hong Kong.
I'm still not sure if that means we're now officially in The Future, or just in a 1970s version, because we've known about acoustic cancellation for years (I learned about it as a callow youth in my second or third year at secondary school) but it seemed to take forever for the technology to be implemented in a way that didn't require the consumer to carry around two lead acid batteries, an oscilloscope, three rheostats and a condenser microphone. So that's progress, I guess.
I'm still not sure if that means we're now officially in The Future, or just in a 1970s version, because we've known about acoustic cancellation for years (I learned about it as a callow youth in my second or third year at secondary school) but it seemed to take forever for the technology to be implemented in a way that didn't require the consumer to carry around two lead acid batteries, an oscilloscope, three rheostats and a condenser microphone. So that's progress, I guess.
