Life is Wonderfully Weird – Part 1

Yesterday morning I realized a horrible thing.

I was reading through the archives here at ‘Codswallop’ and it dawned on me that this blog is way too serious.

If this continues (I said to myself), we’ll develop a reputation of all-work-and-no-play guys. And since being dull is a grave offense, I’ve decided to share with you our weird (and sometimes interesting) life here at Cogniview.

And we’ll start the ‘life is wonderfully weird’ series with our next door neighbors.

They operate a sound testing lab. Which is pretty cool. But what’s really cool is that they build their testing environments using all sorts of strange materials. And they are using the public parking lot to store their strange stuff.

And today, it is cut-up tires…

Sound Isolation Material?

If you know how you use cut up tires for sound testing, please, please – share it with us in the comments :)

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Yoav Ezer 
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2 Responses to “Life is Wonderfully Weird – Part 1”

  1. Martin on November 20th, 2009 12:29 pm

    Well tires are made of rubber, which makes some pretty weird sounds when you rub it, hit it, twist it, bend it… etc.

    Unless its being used for Sound Dampening… but i think it would build more noise than it would suppress.

    :)

  2. Ilan on November 30th, 2009 1:53 pm

    I believe that these tires can be used for dampening sound when attached to a wall.

    In addition to being flexible, these tires are also insulating because they contain air.

    Imagine covering a room’s wall with these things, with the tire’s external side facing inwards into the room. Sound that is created inside the room hits the tires and the sound wave energy is converted to tire vibrations. However these vibrations are dampened (converted to heat in the rubber) and almost not passed to the wall at all, and therefore not passed to the nearby rooms.

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