Loodio means "I hate it" in spanish, so I'd suggest a change of name.
I dunno; seems like a clever coincidence to me.
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#13Seems like a thoughtful design. Doubling as a Bluetooth speaker is a significant feature.
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#14I never understood why this is bothering anyone, it's part of life! A bit like those toilet sprays...stuff stinks that's it. For me this is a solution for a non-existing problem.
That's silly. Wanting privacy during our most vulnerable moments is deeply ingrained into our psyche, all the way down to our lizard brains.
This is a very real and very legitimate problem to be solved.
Surely, you must feel perfectly comfortable walking around naked, having people watch you defecate, or having sex in public? After all, it's part of life!
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#15Any reason for cancelling and hiding the first Kickstarter for what appears to be the same product from 2020? [1]
[1]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/loodio/loodio-bathroom-...
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#16Correct me if I'm wrong, but won't the white noise near the source mostly just affect the perception of sounds for the person in the toilet, and less so for the people outside?
Kind of like if you're doing the dishes and have the water running, people can hear you just fine, but you can't hear anything that's said to you.
I know in psychologists' offices they often have the white noise device in the waiting room for this reason.
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#17> How else are you solving this problem? Working from home.
Haven't had to queue up for the bathroom during work hours in two years!
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#18Instead of white-noise or music, why not play the sounds of people using the bathroom? You know like, peeing, pooping, farting, chatter, moans and groans. This way our own noises become indiscernible from the background noise.
This is nightmare material.
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#19Relaxing music doesn't mask the noises enough I'm afraid you are hoping. It either needs to be very loud or have a different genre, like metal or dubstep to suppress umm... brown noise.
I'm also not sure if announcing anyone I'm doing stuff in the bathroom is what I'd always want.
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#20Active noise cancellation would make for much more amusing how-to videos.
We listened to many "noises" and created a machine learning (model deployed) on edge device which you can put in your bathroom to cancel sounds.