Just when you thought the Internet couldn’t get any weirder… The next ASMR trend is here. People are now finding creative ways to crush these green blocks of foam for satisfying relief. Read more…More about Instagram, Mashable Video, Trends, Dry, …
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Someone recorded the sound of skating on thin ice and it’s super creepy
With the winter Olympics in full swing, here’s a video of what skating on a frozen lake sounds like.
Fresh ice sounds really spooky, it turns out. Henrik Trygg recorded the sound of someone skating on 45mm of ice on Lissma Kvarnsjö, a …
This orca can say ‘hello’ like a human
Trainers put a 14-year-old orca named Wikie through many exercises and rewarded her with positive reinforcements to train her to say ‘hello’ like a human being.
While the research doesn’t show that orcas can actually talk, orcas might use mimicry to …
Inspired by insect ears, Soundskrit wants to make microphones magically directional
Voice control is everywhere these days, but to hear people effectively from every direction, devices like the Echo need to have a whole collection of microphones in them — but they take up space, require extra processing power, and restrict industrial design. Soundskrit aims to replace those many mics with a single one that can clearly hear and separate sound from multiple sources and… Read More
A conversation with Dean Kamen on the myth of “Eureka!”
“I think invention is maybe like love,” says Dean Kamen. “Everybody wants to have it. Nobody knows what it is.” Read More
Clap on! Clap off! It’s Clapboss!
Sure Alexa can sing you a song but can you clap back at her? A new product by the makers of the Freewrite lets you do just that. Called Clapboss, this smiling dongle lets you clap up to four times to activate various things around your house. Cla…
View More Clap on! Clap off! It’s Clapboss!Sonos and Ikea are collaborating on sound products for the home
Sonos and Ikea just announced a new collaboration to “create future home sound experiences”. The companies say they want to make it easier to play music anywhere in the home – which makes sense, since Sonos’ main benefit is how easy their software makes it to set up and manage a system of speakers throughout your home. “Together with Sonos we want to democratize… Read More
NASA created a playlist of creepy space sounds
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NASA dropped a spooky mixtape filled with interplanetary music of our cosmos, with such great hits like “Kepler: Star KIC7671081B Light Curves Waves to Sound,” “Plasmaspheric Hiss,” “Jupiter Sounds 2001,” and “Chorus Radio Waves within Earth’s Atmosphere.” Read more…
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