Nikola Tesla invention from 100 years ago suddenly makes more sense today

Post by samplatt » Fri, May 21, 2021, 5:04 AM UTC

glenngillen wrote: post #49

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How are the Nuraphone cans with sound leakage? I've had hearing issues since childhood and tend to turn the volume WAY up. Nuraphone has been on my radar for a while, but I exclusively buy headphones with as near-to-zero external leakage as possible, since I don't want to piss off my co-workers with audible music.

Back when I worked in an office the 3 people around me had them and I never heard anything. So sealed enough that whether they were listening to music or on a call I couldn’t hear anything above ambient office noise from approx 5ft away.

Post by bradknowles » Fri, May 21, 2021, 7:00 AM UTC

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Doesn't everyone do this? I remember at the age of five finally learning to control my falling dreams at night, to be able to freeze in the air and eventually fly (the Matrix scene definitely resonated later). This was the beginning of a continuous exercise of imagining things more and more exactly and controlling that imagination. Now as an engineer, I spend most of my time staring at a wall simulating and refining…

You may be exceptional. In my experience, it often works / looks perfect in the head. But putting it to paper, it falls apart quickly. Imagine a bicycle, it is easy to imagine it accurately. Then draw it (or construct it), one usually struggles a lot. The step to materialize it, is where you need a lot of practice. The worst are the the "idea" guys. They think they have already done all the work, and somebody else ju…

Post by amai » Fri, May 21, 2021, 5:33 PM UTC

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If you want to get into the mind of Tesla a bit I highly recommend "My Inventions", his sort of autobiography where he described how his mind worked. He spent a lot of time developing his imagination at a young age and "traveling" in his head. I was surprised to read that he would visualize entire designs in his imagination and then go through prototypes and iterations several times before bringing that idea into the…