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on Friday September 30 2016, @10:23PM
from the starting-the-weekend-with-a-good-drinking-related-story dept.
from the starting-the-weekend-with-a-good-drinking-related-story dept.
A cocktail bar owner has installed a Faraday cage in his walls to prevent mobile phone signals entering the building.
Steve Tyler of the Gin Tub, in Hove, East Sussex, is hoping customers will be encouraged to talk to each other rather than looking at their screens.
He has installed metal mesh in the walls and ceiling of the bar which absorbs and redistributes the electromagnetic signals from phones and wireless devices to prevents them entering the interior of the building.
Why you hating on millennials, Bro?
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Landlord Installs Faraday Cage to Block Phone Signals Because Social Media is Ruining British Pubs
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(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Saturday October 01 2016, @04:05AM
That jukebox thing seems interesting and could have potential.. imagine if someone set it so that everyone could enter their preferred jukebox volume category* (silent, hushed, normal, loud+, deaf+) and have the thing sample the preferences every five minutes for a new volume-target to aim for with a slow (5min) ramping.
Just have it poll for wifi/bluetooth to see which devices' requests to consider.
Then again - I would love too see such a system everywhere.
* more options would cause excessive spoofing of preferences
+ what seems to be what is used today.