BabelBubble

Open office plans are becomming more popular, which can accommodate all team members and equipment in a single large room with few or no dividing walls. This layout encourages face-to-face interactions, which can lead to increased creativity and better company culture. Additionally, it is more cost efficient in terms of total office space, with studies showing 3x less space is required.

However, imagine you’re meeting with your team to work on a project together, and there are 3 other teams discussing their projects in the same vicinity as you, and another group chatting loudly 10 feet away. Communication and focus become a struggle, and productivity goes down. It becomes difficult to hear each other clearly, and sentences often have to be repeated. This may lead to longer and more numerous meetings, and also lead to mistakes caused by miscommunication.

The BabelBubble creates a unified, clear communication space amidst the potential for confusion and noise, much like the Tower of Babel, but in this case has a positive twist on overcoming those barriers and successfully collaborating together. This device creates a sound bubble enveloping around your group by producing destructive interference, hushing the outside noise so that you can focus on the conversations that really matter.

With AI built into the software, it also helps your team team take meeting notes and creates summaries sent to your devices afterward, making sure no important content is missed. The all-around AI camera tracking recognizes who is part of the conversation at any given moment and can adjust the bubble range accordingly. These settings can also be mannually adjusted as desired through the touchscreen interface on top.

ANC technology at the moment is limited to individual headphones. However, with companies like Bose stating they are actively working on pushing the boundaries of ANC, the BabelBubble may not be such a blue skies product in the near future.

With the BabelBubble, you will be able to achieve clear communication wherever your team is, whether it’s a loud open-plan office or a busy neighborhood cafe.