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Visual noise is as bad as audible noise. What's next, horse blinders?

• ThrowawayR2 7y ago
  That's actually been done already: https://www.dezeen.com/2018/10/17/panasonics-wearable-blinkers-concentrate-open-plan-offices-technology/ https://www.dezeen.com/2018/10/17/panasonics-wearable-blinke...
• joncrane 7y ago
  I have fantasized about draping a thick black curtain around my workstation to try to focus. Do you think that would fly?
  • WrtCdEvrydy 7y ago
    We had a guy who used his lifted desk to build a little box for himself (out of carboard)
    • abraxas 7y ago
      Improv cubicle... yeah. These are sad times when cubicles are a hallmark of the good old times.
    • joncrane 7y ago
      How did the management feel about this?
      • WrtCdEvrydy 7y ago
        Let's say 'not well'
• mkl 7y ago
  Well there was the idea of the third picture here: http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/2012/3m-privacy-for-your-eyes-only/ http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/2012/3m-privacy-for-your... It's from an ad for a privacy screen filter, but unlike that, it works the other way around too, blocking out the world.