在20世纪80年代技术蓬勃发展之前,如厕的人会用冲马桶的水声或打开水龙头来盖过小便的声音。然而,由于这种做法是无谓的浪费水资源,人们开始寻找更为环保的方法,于是厕所发声器应运而生。最著名的厕所发声器名为“音姬”(直译是“声音公主”),由马桶品牌Toto研发和生产。这种设备解决了浪费水的问题,但也只是稍微让人在厕所里感到舒服一些,因为这种发声器产生的声音并不能完美地掩盖令人尴尬的声音。幸运的是,现在已经有了更好的解决方案。
Japanese homeware brand Lixil has partnered with instrument maker Roland to address the sensitive issue of bathroom noises. They’ve created a new device called the “Sound Decorator”, which, unlike current solutions that only try to mask noises by emitting another sound, generates a pattern that makes the original sound less audible altogether. They achieved this by engineering a sound with a similar but stronger wavelength to that of urination, and, through what is known as the “auditory masking” effect, they were able to neutralize the weaker wavelengths and thus cancel out the unwanted noise.
日本家居用品品牌骊住集团和乐器制造商罗兰公司合作,共同解决如厕声音的敏感问题。他们联手研发了一款名为“声音装饰家”的新设备,与目前的通过发出另一个声音来掩盖如厕声音不同,这种设备发出的声音会让如厕声音几乎听不见。他们通过编辑出一种和小便声音波长相近但更强的声音,利用“听觉掩盖”效应,就能削弱波长较弱的小便声,从而消除不想要的声音。
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