"With win-win-win, we all win. Me too."

So after posting yesterday I was tasked with familiarizing myself with the awesomest company ever, Applied Minds, Inc. This company is amazing (click the picture below to link to an article about them). Their business is innovation. Seriously. Many companies say their business is innovation, but this company really is in the business of innovation. It actually makes me want to be an engineer or scientist of some sort because it just seems like the coolest place to work ever.

But to my point, I'm reading this article about AMI and in it they discuss one of their inventions, Babble. It is the solution to my loud phone-talker problem.

“Here was the paradox: sometimes the clatter of voices is soothing or energizing but other times it's grating. The difference, Hillis concluded, was when you could figure out what's being said. ‘It's the meaning that's distracting and obnoxious,’ he says. ‘Not the sound’…The result of this is Babble, a shiny black box the size of a paperback that plugs into the phone and has two speakers you put on top of the cubicle. As promised, when the speakers play a scrambled version of your voice, your real conversation can't be understood by someone standing even four feet away.”

So there you go! For only $395 I can stop beating my head against my desk every time her phone rings!