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Tune in, tune out

By Duncan Graham-Rowe

17 February 2001

IT’S no fun yelling to make yourself heard at a party or in a crowded bar.
And sports coaches know just how tough it is to talk tactics to a team above the
roar of a crowd.

What you need in these kind of noisy environments is selective hearing:
something that blocks the noise you don’t want to hear, leaving the sound you do
want coming through loud and clear. And engineers at the SINTEF research lab in
Trondheim, Norway, have come up with just the thing.

Its Personal Active Radio/Audio Terminal (PARAT) earpiece was developed for
the Norwegian military…

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