A Stick-On Speaker That Uses Your Windows To Silence Noises Outside

That suspiciously flashy apartment you just moved into ? Turns out to be right next to a deafen hourly commuter train — and since you sign a one year term of a contract , you ’re looking at either twelve month wearing racket cancel headphone . Or desperately hopingRudolf Stefanich ’s Sononoise cancelling windowpane gimmick come to fruition .

We ’ve probably all seen those oscillate devices that can turn flat surfaces like table or windows into speakers . Well , Stefanich take that idea one step further with the Sono . disturbance invalidate earphone have petite microphones that can find fault up and cancel out ambient sound , and that ’s exactly what the Sono would do . Except that it would counter - vibrate the window it was stuck to , turn it into a giant haphazardness - cancelling speaker that silences any strait coming from outside .

And while Stefanich ’s proposed machine is only just a finalist for a James Dyson Award at this point , there ’s no reason to think the applied science and coming would n’t sour as intended . Furthermore , it ’s sensible to say that finally , the electronics in the Sono could be integrate into windowpane frames direct — taking soundproofing to a whole new grade . [ James Dyson AwardviaPSKF ]