"We designed a soundproof room for friends who live in Tokyo and have helped with construction.The construction period lasted a week (20120331 ~ 20120406) while working while staying in a friend's ...

Sound absorbing material used to prevent sound from being reflected by walls for sound insulation and sound.A shape like a wedge lasts steadilyOr, it is commonplace that sandwiches the wall, but there ...

If you live in a noisy urban area, you're gonna love the sound of this. Researchers in Switzerland have developed a material that can dampen street noise while being four times thinner than ...

Imagine a world where you can effectively block sound without the need for bulky and sometimes costly insulation. A game-changing technology is making this possible – a unique material that can block ...

Open-plan offices are great in theory, but their noisy nature can make holding meetings a pain. Leanne Zilka of Zilka Studio has come up with a pop-up solution in the form of PleatPod, an origami-like ...

Bats eat a lot of moths, which they locate in the dark via echolocation. According to new research, however, some moths have evolved sound-absorbing fur as a passive means of defence – and it could ...

Many asymmetric absorbers are currently based on a single-port system, where sound enters one side and is absorbed before a rigid wall. In this design, however, light and air are unable to pass ...