Ghastly Gadgets, Vol. 5
Reggie's Weekly Column on the Gadgets of Acclimated Spooks...
Greetings, readers! We’re back! Today’s entry into our gadget-extraordinarimondo gadgeteria is a little device invented by Acclimated Spooks that I happen to carry with me quite often, and that is the Scrobbler. Mr. Ping, may he rest in peace, used to get quite tired of my constant complaining. “Reggie,” he would say, “You’re always going on and on about the banal conversations that people have. The other day, you were even whinging about the tone of the voice of the lady at the airline ticket counter!”
“You cant deny that she had an annoying voice, Confucius,” I said.
“Be that as it may…”
“Look,” I said. “if I could only just drown out 99% of the moronic prattling of every day people, I’d be a happy yeti.”
Well, this conversation, and I remember it well, produced the Scrobbler, which Mr. Ping gave me as a birthday present one year. Basically, it works like this: You record a sample of the conversation that’s annoying you and then voila! The Scrobbler sends out “counter” sound waves to drown out the sound of the conversation you can’t stand to hear. It’s easy. I carry it with me everywhere. At the airport, in the subway…heck, I’ve even used it on Smelts.
My very own Scrobbler. Cherished when near loud-mouths.
Now, a lot of you may say, “Hey, why don’t you just get noise-canceling headphones?” Keep in mind, people, that we’re talking about an invention from the 1940s. They didn’t have noise-cancelling headphones back then. In fact, where do you think noise-canceling headphones actually came from? Acclimated Spooks, my friends. Acclimated Spooks.
