News tagged with noise suppression


Review: New headsets let you shoot the breeze (AP)

Review: New headsets let you shoot the breeze

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Bluetooth wireless headsets have become a lot better in the last few years at picking out the user's voice from noisy surroundings.





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Neural noise created during binocular rivalry

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Neural "noise" may cause you to miss important changes in your environment when you are concentrating on something else, new research indicates.


New '1/f noise' discovery promises to improve semiconductor-based sensors

New '1/f noise' discovery promises to improve semiconductor-based sensors

Physics / General Physics

created May 09, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (27) | comments 0

More sensitive sensors and detectors based on semiconductor electronics could result from new findings by researchers from the United States, Norway and Russia.


Brain mechanism recruited to reduce noise during challenging tasks

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New research reveals a sophisticated brain mechanism that is critical for filtering out irrelevant signals during demanding cognitive tasks. The study, published by Cell Press in the February 26 issue of the journal Neuron, also p ...


Drivers of convertibles may be at risk for noise-induced hearing loss

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Drivers who frequently take to the road with the top down may be risking serious damage to their hearing, according to research presented at the 2009 American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) ...


Dutch PhD student develops device to combat noise

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (17) | comments 17

Johan Wesselink of the University of Twente, The Netherlands, has developed a device to actively combat noise nuisance. This invention curtails sound waves and vibrations by producing anti-noise. The researcher is confident ...


NIST develops powerful method of suppressing errors in many types of quantum computers

Physicists develop powerful method of suppressing errors in many types of quantum computers

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 2

(PhsyOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated a technique for efficiently suppressing errors in quantum computers. The advance could eventually make it ...


IBM Scientists 'Quiet' Unruly Electrons in Atomic Layers of Graphite

IBM researchers quell nanoscale interference

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 07, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (40) | comments 1

IBM researchers have discovered a way to use graphite effectively in building nanoelectonic circuits vastly smaller than those in silicon-based computer chips.


SEMATECH Reports New Approach to Simulate Transistor Noise

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers from SEMATECH's Front End Processes (FEP) program have developed a comprehensive transistor noise model capable of extracting defect characteristics from low frequency noise data in advanced gate stack transistors ...


Noisy roads increase risk of high blood pressure

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Traffic noise raises blood pressure. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental Health have found that people exposed to high levels of noise from nearby roads are more likely to report suffer ...


Auditory illusion: How our brains can fill in the gaps to create continuous sound

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

It is relatively common for listeners to "hear" sounds that are not really there. In fact, it is the brain's ability to reconstruct fragmented sounds that allows us to successfully carry on a conversation in a noisy room. ...



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