From the man who brought you THX, the promise of “anti-noise” that can neutralize all irritating environmental noises, including a kid banging a basketball against a post under your living room (?).

I’m imagining a world where all our living rooms have this feature, but slight discrepancies between the original sound and the out-of phase sound used to cancel it out result in a new kind of liminal environmental noise, a faint hiss whenever a sound comes from outside. Or, better yet, what if it started working on the inside instead of the outside, stopping the production of any sound at all inside your living room?

(via GOOD)