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[kaberett]

On our most recent trip to Cornwall A made a bunch of recordings of The Waves and The Wind and (occasionally) The Birds for me. I am starting to listen through them to establish that they do not contain Unpleasant Surprises, for the purpose of having Soothing Noise to listen to in hospital.

I have thereby discovered that I can play said recordings using the bone-conduction headphones and have a completely normal conversation simultaneously, because the sounds slot so well into the Ah Yes Home bit of my hindbrain that instead of being Extra Processing (Bad) it just winds up being reassuring.

I am delighted by this proof of concept.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

excellent!

[rmc28]

That is so cool!

[cosmolinguist]

Oh that sounds lovely.

(I keep meaning to try bone conduction headphones for myself, it'd be great for things like this.)

[kaberett]

They are the only headphones I have ever in my life tolerated. I will now actively choose to use them for things. I acquired second-hand Shokz OpenRun Pro (I think - the discontinued model) because they were the best colour...

[ewt]

I use generated cat purring noises for this purpose sometimes,if I'm having a bad day and also remember there are cat purring noise generators.

[jesse_the_k]

brilliant!

[sfred]

<3

[divulge]

That sounds lovely!

[lokifan]

Oh, amazing!

[ailbhe]

bone conduction headphones are an absolute revelation to me.