A Two-Person Startup Has Fixed One of the Most Hated Sounds in Modern Life
Sound designers Joel Corelitz and Colin Coogan are working to replace the harsh, high-pitched beeps of modern microwaves with more pleasant, engineered audio. By utilizing existing piezoelectric buzzer technology, they aim to improve the user experience through simple software adjustments.
Why? I detest so deeply its shrill beep heralding the completion of its reheating duties that it's almost as if the appliance has trained me, through operant conditioning, to open its door at T-minus 1 second, so the grating noise is silenced before it begins. But there is another way, a means by which microwave makers can keep their margins, not change the hardware in any way, and, just by manipulating a few lines of code, change the kitchen experience sonically for the better for aurally assaulted microwavers everywhere.
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