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Friday, 19 May 2017

Anything to stop those annoying office colleagues

I wish I could change the displayed photo, because the Isolator - and it certainly deserves a capital I - looks like something from a mad scientist's dungeon. No-one in their right mind would disturb anyone wearing this.

Back in 1925, inventor and science fiction author Hugo Gernsback had an idea to block out annoying ambient noise: a contraption he called ‘the isolator’. This helmet would shut out all sounds, smells, and sights of the outside world. The idea was that the user, looking through two small window holes in the metal hood, could concentrate only on the task right at hand.
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170518-curious-contraptions-of-yesterdays-workplaces
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3 comments:

  1. Dogmatic Pyrrhonist (Tiktaalik Dreaming)19 May 2017 at 11:38

    Now that I've followed the link I realise I've seen The Isolator before. I love that thing.

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  2. Adam Synergy19 May 2017 at 11:46

    Hi Rhys Taylor off-topic I know but have you seen this ? :
    arxiv.org - [1705.06286] Going, going, gone dark: Quantifying the scatter in the faintest dwarf
    galaxies
    Dark galaxies !

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  3. Rhys Taylor20 May 2017 at 18:27

    Adam Synergy Thanks, I hadn't see that - added to the reading list. :)

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