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StartupRealities No 157 NoiseRevenge is a sound technology company which produces patented sound transmission devices that beam sound with a laser beam to an exact location. This allows users to utilise the device to punish inconsiderate neighbours who play loud music. The advantage of the NoiseRevenge technology is that the sound is delivered and released at a chosen location, rather than being heard in the entire space from source to destination in the normal way that sound waves spread. TECHNOLOGY NoiseRevenge uses the photoacoustic effect : when water vapour present in the air absorbs light from a laser beam, it forms sound waves. The quality of the sound is not particularly high but can still be encoded sufficiently to differentiate it from noise. A unique part of this technology is that the sound will only be heard at a given distance from the transmitter. CEO QUOTE "We bring civilisation to neighbourly relations with our new sound technology. There is no longer a ne...

StartupRealities No 79 WiFiExtension is a technology company which helps neighbours connect to each other's home WiFi networks. The company maintains an online "matching" database of the wifi networks of people who have entered their wifi code and those of their neighbours. When the database detects an overlap of the same network entered by two people (the owner and a neighbour), it connects the two and allows them to exchange their wifi passwords securely. The access that people receive to a neighbour's wifi network is always secondary and with a limited capacity when the owner of the network is using their wifi. CEO QUOTE "Your neighbour's router may be closer to your garden than your own router, so why not share their bandwidth once in a while, especially when they are not using their internet. Some people worry that their neighbours will take advantage of their wifi and do heavy downloads but our system makes this impossible. We set a limit on second...