If it does what it says it can do, this is going to be very popular.
If you’ve ever shared a room (even a house) with a snorer, you’ve probably been driven demented during the wee small hours when your attempts to sleep are ruined by the nasal noise of your housemate.
If you’re a snorer yourself, on the other hand, we’re sure you’ve been told about it plenty of times.
Snorers have tried numerous methods of putting a stop to it over the years, but a company in the US are claiming to have invented a device that will make it a thing of the past.
Clip via Silent Partner
Silent Partner’s Smart Patch doesn’t exactly stop the sensation of snoring itself, but what it does do, or claims to do, is cancel out the snoring noise so those sharing a bed or a house with the snorer can sleep in peace.
The Smart Patch utilises similar technology to noise-cancelling headphones, with sensors on either side of the snorer’s nose picking up the amplitude and frequency of the snoring noise and broadcasting inverted sound waves which essentially cancel each other out.
Sure anyone could have thought of that.
The Smart Patch has been amassing thousands upon thousands of dollars on crowdfunding website Indiegogo, with the total standing at a little over $400,000 at the time of writing.
When it eventually goes on the market, it will cost around €25, but if it stops snoring for good then it will be worth it, right?
That won’t be until November, however, once Silent Partner have dotted all the is and crossed the zzzzzzzzzzs.
LISTEN: You Must Be Jokin’ with Aideen McQueen – Faith healers, Coolock craic and Gigging as Gaeilge
