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Instead 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.
Instead 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.
If I understand op well, the entire open space can hear what happens inside. Imagine if every time some of your coworkers go in for a little pee pee, you hear "peeing, pooping, farting, chatter, moans and groans" at maximum volume. You know what ? That sounds like a hella fun workplace. Don’t forget the gross spitting sound.
One addition that would be great is a shower timer, and a humidity sensor to auto-detect how long I'm in the bathroom
Thanks for your comment. May I ask what your aiming for by knowing your shower time? To save water?
Correct 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…
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Won't reply to all the strawmen at the bottom of your post, but I and lots of people don't care what people HEAR while we're using the bathroom.... its a bathroom for god's sake! Everything happening in there is normal and I'm not sure why you are imagining yourself to be "vulnerable" inside a locked private room.
I’m willing to bet 50% of people in the U.S. get anxious when having to do their business in a public bathroom. Doing your business next to a stranger in Tevas with hobbit feet and a serious gastro intestinal issue is nightmare fuel for me.
I was also confused by the product wanting to be an all in one device for setting the "date night" mood, showing me the time, being a light source, etc. I think these are all distractions and should be cut from your plans. I imagine it would reduce your footprint and costs.
Still rooting for your success, thanks for trying to solve this problem!
* Elongated toilets are common in US and echo loudly. I can't imagine a speaker canceling out those sounds.
Any 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-...
Accidental misclicked and launched previous version. (Kickstarter has a confusing UX) It had FM-radio that didn't work and a crappy nokia 5110 display. We were "95% done" with that prototype, according to the consultants, and I was 60K in. I decided to pull the handbrake after realising that was not going to end well when I had no clue how to build the unit and those "5%" would probably cost me another 100% if you kn…
Looks like it could be replaced with Amazon Echo or any similar voice-enabled speaker which is 1/5 of cost.
How do I solve this "problem"? Simple, it's absolutely no problem at all.
Who the hell cares that your coworkers hear you taking a shit? Guess what, they also take shits and their asses make the same noises, do all of them cover it up in such ridiculous ways? Until today, I didn't even think this was even a problem.