Ecotones Transforms Noise Into Tranquility
The Ecotones ambient sound therapy system listens and adapts to your environment, creating audio backgrounds “so vivid and realistic you’ll forget it’s in the room”.
Use Ecotones throughout your home or office to mask noise from loud neighbors, traffic, aircraft or annoying machinery. Select your favorites from a dozen skillfully crafted SoundStories and instantly transform your environment; turn irritating traffic noise into a soothing seaside escape or the din of nearby construction into an inviting babbling brook.
Ecotones’ specially designed speaker pair and tuned sound chamber produce a full range (90 – 20,000 Hz) of crisp, transparent audio. A headphone jack enables private listening as well as connection to an external stereo or audio amplifier. An adjustable sleep timer is also included.
Ecotones can be used in any of three modes:
Adaptive – The Adaptive Mode is the most effective mode for masking irritating noises. In this mode, Ecotones listens to the sounds around you and tailors its response to blendthe noise into a tranquil SoundStory.
Background – The Background Mode generates a pleasant background atmosphere as the sound level in your surroundings drops. In this mode, Ecotones reduces its volume in response to a telephone ringing or to the sound of conversation and resumes normal volume as the room becomes quiet.
Manual – The Manual Mode lets you select a constant volume level. In tihs mode, Ecotones listens to the sounds aruond you and creates an ever changing SoundStory at a fixed volume.
The Ecotones ambient adaptive sound therapy system is available from the Hammacher Schlemmer website for $299.95.
10 comments for “Ecotones Transforms Noise Into Tranquility” »
2 November 2008 at 1:29 am
It looks like a real useful stuff. I have a house a road which usually very busy and make a lot of noise.
2 November 2008 at 3:17 am
Yes, it does Ken. I have the airplane route just above my house, so something like the Ecotones could actually come in very handy.
2 November 2008 at 5:59 am
“The Adaptive Mode is the most effective mode for masking irritating noises. In this mode, Ecotones listens to the sounds around you and tailors its response to blend the noise.”
That’s pretty clever stuff. Though there’s got to be limitations to what it can detect and how it can blend to those sounds…
2 November 2008 at 11:20 am
Wait, how could you have an airplane route above your house?
2 November 2008 at 12:39 pm
Umm, Kevin…do you think planes fly between the rows of property lines or something?
2 November 2008 at 4:53 pm
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3 November 2008 at 11:32 am
There’s always the tried-and-true “Sleep Sounds Machine” for $55 … http://www.hammacher.com/publish/60586.asp
3 November 2008 at 5:38 pm
That’s nice gadget therapy!
4 November 2008 at 2:28 am
Thank you all for stopping by!
4 November 2008 at 10:45 am
[...] Ecotones cancella i rumori di fondo e ti regala un finto silenzio 4Nov2008 Categoria: Assurdi, Esperimenti Scritto da Plainsong Al giorno d’oggi, per chi vive in un grande centro, “silenzio” è una parola da usare in senso assai lato: il traffico in strada, dei vicini particolarmente rumorosi, un aeroporto poco distante ed i bambini in cortile sono solo alcuni delle fonti dello stress sonoro che viene imposto alle nostre orecchie quotidianamente. Eliminare questo tipo di rumori di fondo, quando si ha bisogno di un pò di relax, è praticamente impossibile, e così centinaia di migliai di persone sono state costrette a rassegnarsi all’inquinamento acustico cittadino e sembrano non fare più caso alla cosa. Ma, anche se non è ancora possibile riprodurre il silenzio ed usarlo per coprire i rumori di fondo che invadono la nostra vita, è però possibile mascherare suddetti rumori e renderli più sopportabili e piacevoli. E’ a questo scopo che è stato costruito Ecotones, un dispositivo in grado di produrre “rumore trasparente” che mascheri e copra in maniera gradevole ronzii, voci e musica a tutto volume provenienti dall’esterno. I suoni riprodotti da Ecotones sono impostabili manualmente, o si può lasciare che questo dispositivo elabori la combinazione sonora più adeguata a cancellare l’inquinamento acustico di una stanza, ed i suoi creatori lo dicono così efficace e poco invadente che si finisce con il dimenticare di averlo attivato. Un’opzione, inoltre, permette al suono di interrompersi o abbassarsi di volume all’arrivo di una telefonata o all’avvio di una conversazione. Ecotones è in vendita a 299.95 $ (238 €). [via GeekAlerts] [...]
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