Office Privacy
I don’t have use for one—I can just close my door—but some of you in cube farms might [although $400 is steep]: Herman Miller has a new device out called the Babble, which is designed to mask your conversations by repeating random snippets of your conversation through its speakers so that passers-by and lurking cow-orkers can’t eavesdrop effectively.
I’m thinking Baron Carlos could use it…
[HT to Gizmodo, who pointed to IDFuel, who pointed to the actual article. Phew!]
So the idea behind this is to make the cubical environment that much more distracting by generating a conversation in every cubicle? That just doesn’t seem very practical. If information security is the concern, these companies need to spend a few extra dollars in developing their offices. Doing that will lead to happier, more productive employees as opposed to this that I can think will only make things that much worse.
May 23rd, 2005 at 14:35I think it only does this for recent conversations; if it’s quiet, I don’t think it would spit out stuff.
Of course, in a cube farm …
May 23rd, 2005 at 15:39