English scientists have developed a "silence machine", which can generate "anti-noise" to cancel out unwanted sound. Basically sound waves have a phase; the machine generates sound which is exactly out of phase with the original sound, and the noise is cancelled. I wonder if you could measure the drop in neighbour fights if this was easily available? I seem to recall reading a book about this exact idea when I was a kid...

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