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It's nice to have thw window open on hot summer nights; but then some inconsiderate person rides past on a noisy moped, or rumbles along the road in a big truck.
The answer is an electric window closer; when the external noise level exceeds an adjustable threshold, the window is quickly but quietly
driven closed. Once the noise is past, the window re-opens.
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do you snore by any chance? |
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Knowing my luck the window would close with a loud squeeeak. |
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<Carrie/><Turns head quickly/><Telekinetically menaces/>
Window shuts
</Telekenitically menaces></Turns head quickly></Carrie> |
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The sound of your boss's voice closes the browser window. |
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Add a thermostat and rain sensor, and I think this would be the perfect high-tech window. Windows are already expensive - I would imagine this would not raise the cost past that of high end windows. |
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I was about to question the cost and complexity of a mechanism that could close the window quickly and quietly enough without slamming it. Then I thought of a bonehead simple way that even a cheapskate like me might buy. So + |
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[half] Is your way secret? I'll share mine - add a screw on one (or both) side(s) with (a) motor(s). |
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Big fat all butter croissant if you can persuade hoteliers to fit these. |
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Noise cancellation would be easier and cheaper... |
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So would earplugs. But for comfort reasons I don't want something on/in my ears while sleeping. |
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buggar, dustin left his tail out of the window again. |
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[1.143] Please add an electronic eye (one of those safety things that automatic garage doors have) for [po]. |
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:) it wasn't my tail outta the window. |
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//it would be neat to turn over half asleep//
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you never done that, half? I do it all night long. |
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oh whoops! sorry, Mrs Half! |
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oh go back to your old name, you were half the trouble. |
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Now if the window could register lightning flashes, it could supersonically close before the thunder arrives (and the aroma from the neighbor’s Blitz Barbeque). |
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//supersonically close//
Thereby creating a miniature sonic boom even closer to your ear? |
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My guess is that halfever's sleeping next to bliss is the baked version of this idea. |
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phoenix, noise cancellation is harder and more expensive,
and the best you can achieve is converting white noise of
one type to white noise of another, (steady traffic into
rain or waves on a beach), which have been done. the
problem with noise cancellation is that you will never
eliminate all the sound coming through the window, due
to some baked sound wave properties that I don't
understand. i read it in Popular Science or some such
tripe a few years ago, where they actually made windows
that were combination mics/speakers, using the glass as a
sound generating membrane to generate cancelling
sound, and spending tons of cash in development they
could only transform the soundnot eliminate. they worked
with the windows closed though, and were trying to
eliminate the sound of the freeway that got in no matter
what, when your house is very close to the freeway.
(i love tripe) and this idea. here's my cracker. |
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