While noise in a hospital may seem a simple nuisance, it can affect patients’ health and satisfaction, which in turn can impact hospitals’ reimbursement. The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare ...

Air handlers are the heart of an HVAC system, moving the conditioned air through a building. Like a heart, they can generate a lot of noise while operating. Manufacturers, however, are taking steps to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Gold writes about wellness design and related housing topics. Bedrooms are among the most important — and often the easiest ...

This may not fit in "other hardware", but this seemed to be the closest fit, so here it is. We got an outdoor heat pump with a heat strip/air handler installed at our house last year. It's working ...

Even modest increases in noise above the background level disturb the sleep of seniors in nursing homes, an ongoing study shows. Now, researchers will test the effectiveness of several noise-reducing ...

Did you know that wires can be used to ionize air to make a loudspeaker? Simply put, it’s possible to generate sound by creating an electric field in a set of parallel wires, aka a plasma transducer, ...

Though efforts are underway to mitigate aircraft noise from San Diego International Airport in nearby residential areas such as Point Loma and Ocean Beach, some community members still have concerns ...

HandHeldItems has a killer deal on a pair of sound-isolating earphones that promise much better audio than you get from stock MP3-player earbuds. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and ...