While the multi-touch mice took up most of my visit to the dark corridors of Microsoft Labs, I did get to see some other fun stuff. The first thing I saw was the pressure-sensitive keyboard I wrote up ...

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Professor Tim Leishman described the sensation of walking into an anechoic chamber as being similar to stepping outside on a winter day after a heavy snowstorm, away from buildings and other people.

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Inside Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, there is a room where sound behaves in an unfamiliar way. Noise from the outside does not enter, and any sound made within its walls fades ...

Legends tell of an echoless chamber in an old Minneapolis recording studio that drives visitors insane. I figured I’d give it a whirl. A binaural torso for spatial recording inside the anechoic ...

Everybody seems to be looking for a little peace and quiet these days. But even such a reasonable idea can go too far. The quietest place on Earth, an anechoic chamber at Orfield Laboratories in ...