Noise canceling technology is quite effective - it "listens" to the sounds in the environment and then cancels them by emitting sound waves that are exactly out of phase with the original ones and have the same amplitude. If all works well, you hear silence.
Now most new parents are hampered by the propensity of babies to cry. The parents are sleep deprived, they perhaps sleep in separate rooms when one of them must sleep to be ready for work the next day, they do not go out to restaurants or movies, they do not visit people, they cannot take the baby to their workplace, they find it difficult to invite people home.
Which made me wonder - perhaps a noise canceling technology for babies is an idea with legs. What if when a baby cried, a noise canceling set next to it canceled out the noise but activated a handset that a parent could carry?
The handset could perhaps have a flashing red light indicator - "Warning, baby emitting noises". Perhaps it could have a Listen setting where it would work as a baby monitor, allowing the parent to hear the baby's cries from a distance. Might there not also be a Vibrate mode? And to deal with a truly cry-baby, a Silent Do-Not-Disturb mode?
Tongue firmly in cheek, :-)
Manas
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Do I hear sirens blaring?
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Thank you sir for giving such insights. Really these are technologies, which are unaware to us. If you can just elaborate price& it's avilability in India.
Great idea sir!
What a mobile phone for new parents!
Sir your concept of canceling noise is really very interesting. I too had come up such an idea during my Engineering days but not in the baby's perspective. :-)
At that time I had one serious issue about its implementation- "Side effects of this approach".
I think its more pertinent out here in this case because any flaw coming out of this device or in a way due to superimposition of any other wave with device's wave could also produce a serious effect.
But again your target audience is simply huge and with each passing moment many more are getting added. Also as people are getting more busier day in and day out this technology could be a boon.
** Sir there is another angle to this discussion too though I am not the right person to comment on this aspect**
We have to preserve the naturalness in a baby's response and crying is a big part of that exercise for babies so this device should be able to detect and filter between - which are disturbing sounds which can make a baby cry and genuine cries of a baby where PARENTS attention is most desirable for proper human growth of a baby.
hello sir,
nice idea..sir plz tell us that how these new ideas come to your mind?? what should we do to think about these kind of ideas?
regards,
Kirandeep Singh
Umesh, just Google for noise canceling headphones, for example. I think they cost a few hundred dollars in the US.
Pankaj, Hulesh, thanks for reading. Jagrat, thanks for giving us something more to read.
Kirandeep - it's easy, just look around for what's bothering you or people around you, and then try to solve it!
Good morning sir,
Its a great idea but their is confusion in my mind , What if their are two children ; so parents have to keep two handsets.
Sir please guide me on the same
Regards
Proton Sudeep
Perhaps the handset can have Call Waiting. :-)
how do i know in short period of time that decision is right or wrong ?
Regards
Nitesh gupta
Respected Sir,
There may be side effects also of such technology & on what principle do they work? There may be some rays emitting also?
Thanks & Regards
Ashu Barjatya (Prton-Indore)
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