Inventions I wish existed, part I
I wish there were selective ear plugs. Not just ear plugs that can shield you from specific frequencies, but ones that you could program to follow a specific channel of sound, be it a conversation, the TV, a bird singing outside your window or the buzzing of an old fridge, and follow that channel, even if your fridge suddenly exploded or the TV jumped between frequencies like a kangaroo on illegal substances.
Basically, I wish I could have complete control over my auditory sensory experience. Sometimes, there’s a small spectrum of channels you want to care about, and the rest should just be gone. Not ignored, but gone, gone like it might as well have never existed.
If there’s one fancy futurist technology I’d like to have, it’s programmable senses. Want to have synaesthesia one day? Just call the synaesthesia.init() function. Want to shield yourself from that annoying acquaintance’s babbling? ignore(annoying_acquaintance).
That would be nice.
