Interesting Links for 10-07-2015

[andrewducker]

• Earbuds that allow you to control the volume of the world around you - and tune out specific frequencies.
  • Julie already wants me to order some so that she can tune out children on airplanes.
  • (tags: technology sound )
• The state of web components
  • (tags: html web )

Comments

[gonzo21]

60 cents an hour, jesus. Welcome to the future of neo-liberal economics.

[agoodwinsmith]

Your Julie is a bright young woman. :)

[snarlish]

A godsend for those of use with misophonia. Can't wait to tune out the sound of crispeaters at work and open mouth gumchewers on the bus.

[andrewducker]

She really is!

(Also: really sensitive to certain noises)

[benicek]

Haha. I want to tune out the children in my flat.

[snarlish]

Totally adore those spiral tree trunk steps.

see also http://www.archdaily.com/640952/matter-design-s-helix-stair-takes-concrete-to-the-next-level/

[soon_lee]

"Julie already wants me to order some so that she can tune out children on airplanes."

Can you subscribe me to that mailing lit?

[nojay]

I was recently reading "The Brick Moon" on Gutenberg and it had an aside about a financial whizkid brought in to save a failing railroad by its creditors. His masterstroke, intended to increase passenger numbers was to announce that infant children would be carried at triple the regular adult fare. The resulting change in fortunes of the railroad paid for a substantial part of the Brick Moon project.