Wearing noise-canceling headphones around everywhere certainly affords you some silence but you’d appear a bit anti-social. Wearing a noise-canceling cloak, on the other hand, would probably make you appear a bit crazy.
Yet the technology now exists, thanks to Duke University scientists. In fact, the cloak works much like the oft-ruminated invisibility cloak in also canceling out the sounds made by the person wearing it. Made from stacked sheets of plastic peppered with holes, its structure and size redirects sound waves.
No word yet on commercial availability.
[via GammaSquad and Geekologie]
