Results: Stories
5 results found for 'MI 1458/152' in Company Reference.
Sound: Stress And Attention
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 152
- NoS ID
- 325634
- Story no
- 1 / 5
COI synopsis: Research at Cambridge University is discovering that, contrary to everything we’ve understood, loud noise of a particular low frequency can actually improve our concentration.
Sound: Electronic Tuner
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 152
- NoS ID
- 325635
- Story no
- 2 / 5
COI synopsis: No more guitar or piano strings out of tune because you can’t get hold of a professional to deal with them. An electronic ear does all the hard work for you: all that’s left is to adjust...
Sound: Tanker Docking
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 152
- NoS ID
- 325636
- Story no
- 3 / 5
COI synopsis: Docking a quarter-of-a-million ton tanker is rather like trying to park a car beside a pavement of egg shells. Pulses of sound are beamed through the water and activate visual signals to aid...
Sound: Dawkins Organ
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 152
- NoS ID
- 325637
- Story no
- 4 / 5
COI synopsis: Recording animal behaviour is a tricky job and any method to help the observer is a boon. Now an ingenious new instrument is under development which transforms animal behaviour into notes of...
Sound: Concrete Nibbler
- Series name
- Living Tomorrow
- Issue no
- 152
- NoS ID
- 325638
- Story no
- 5 / 5
COI synopsis: This hydraulic excavator breaks concrete by bending, and cuts the noise of the conventional vibrator by more than half, with a thirty-five ton pressure bite!