Finding it hard to sleep? Need some noise in the room to help lull you to peaceful, restful slumber? Try an ambient noise machine, which can produce several different sounds to help get you on the ...

Comedian Paul F. Tompkins reviews Sleep Machine, an app that lulls users into rest and relaxation with ambient sounds — from lapping waves on the beach to morning birds to the hum of a running ...

The Buddha Machine Wall webapp streams ambient patterns—the kind just distracting enough to take the edge off the noise in your office. The original Buddha Machine is a small device resembling a ...

Whether it’s street traffic or a snoring partner, disruptive sounds can sabotage your sleep before it even begins. The best white noise machines not only drown out these nuisances, they also provide ...

There are few objects in the world with the deep psychological draw of a switch. A switch is meant to be switched, after all. That fact lives right in its name. [Photo: courtesy Yuri Suzuki] The ...

iOS: If you're looking for a little help falling asleep, or need something to help you squeeze the most shuteye out of a power nap, Sleep Machine for iOS offers up ambient soundscapes, relaxing music, ...

Yuri Suzuki has designed The Ambient Machine, a device that allows people to customise their own background noise with a number of sounds and effects. The Ambient Machine has four rows of eight ...

What looks like a small transistor radio, complete with two AA batteries, turns out to be an ambient machine programmed with nine continuous loops. Save this story Save this story Instead of ...

In September 1991, Scientific American published an article by Mark Weiser, the then head of Xerox's PARC computer science laboratory, entitled 'The Computer for the 21st Century'. In that piece he ...