Over the last year, Harvard PhD candidate Erica Walker has been cycling around Boston with a decibel meter. She’s determined to map out the city’s noise to see how it affects the public’s health. “Noise is insidious,” she tells The Atlantic. “It affects you acutely, but also longterm. This is something that people don’t really talk about, but something people really suffer from.” She eventually …
The sophisticated team at Fantastic Man gives their stamp of approval on Marpac’s petite white noise-producing machine, the DohmNSF. Urban dwellers and persnickety sleepers will delight in its ability to completely block out irritating sounds with its own peaceful hum of rushing air. As the official sound conditioner of the National Sleep Foundation, you can rest assured that this dome-shaped device is the ultimate answer …
Few things are as frustrating to new parents as having a soundly sleeping baby woken up by a slamming door. Ensure this catastrophe doesn’t happen with one of these bright and practical door noise dampers. Just place the fabric sleeve over the handles to make door disturbance a thing of the past.
