Posted on 05/13/2010 1:49:07 PM PDT by JoeProBono
EDINBURGH, Scotland - A Scottish college student said her invention, a clear plastic helmet with openings at the face and ears, is designed to help people talk in noisy bars.
Elaine McLuskey, 23, an Edinburgh Napier University student, said the sound bubble is designed to cut out background noise and help friends converse without straining in busy bars and pubs, the New York Daily News reported Thursday.
"(There's) that frustrating situation of trying to catch up with a friend in a busy bar. You want to hear their news and have a proper chat, but you have to shout over the din of music, chatter and clinking glasses," McLuskey said.
However, some bar patrons in New York said the helmet brings its own problems, most prominently the fish bowl-like appearance.
"I'd be skeptical to sit near them," George Whitehurst, 59, said of people wearing the helmets. "It looks kind of awkward."
The only thing that guys wearing that helmet at a bar would talk about is Wizards and Warlocks and which level they were at.....
How bout a helmet that muffles the voice of the person wearing it?
Usually I stay away from people wearing helmets in bars. Call me superstitious but helmet wearing drinkers are a bad sign, unless of course they drove to the bar on a lawn mower, then you know you are in for some laughs.
They already invented something to help with that. It's call going outside.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNPxIibhcKY
Missed it by that much!
quote: Usually I stay away from people wearing helmets in bars. Call me superstitious but helmet wearing drinkers are a bad sign, unless of course they drove to the bar on a lawn mower, then you know you are in for some laughs.
Hell...why didn’t ya say hi when you saw me...woulda bought ya a beer :)
Can’t run it, work computer blocks the connection. I am sure its funny though. Seems every small town has one drunk running around on a lawn mower. I think they do it just to annoy Barney Fife.
It’s good for a laugh. I can never decide if it was staged or not. Be sure to watch that one when you get home. You won’t regret it.
Me too. You can tell what generation you were from if you do, and what manner of TV was the norm.
When I was doing sound and roadie work in the 70’s chicks would come up to me and ask why is it so loud. I would answer that when you have to get this close to talk (in each other’s ear)you’re half way there.
Jason Segel isn’t gay! I read that he’s dating Amanda Hearst.
Wouldn’t it be easier to frequent bars withOUT extremely loud noise? You say there aren’t any? Speak to the barkeep - tell him why you’re leaving...
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