A potential feature I didn't know I needed. Have headphones with ANC on around home all the time, would be really useful if it auto passthrough my partners voice.
We watch ads, not by force, but voluntarily for free services or currencies in mobile games. Politicians can do basically whatever they want. We have cameras and even glasses that record everything we do. V-Tubers are more popular by the minute. People get blackmailed for their online activities, wrong as they might be. Kids walk around with parent-forced app's to track their location and online life. Robot dogs are being sold to the public and being used by the military. People care more about filming something or the documentary than the event itself.
If I'm being dismissive it's because these things can be dismissed as revolutionary.
https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-sound-recognition...
The only case ANC would block your partners voice would be if it is about as high/low level as the background noise/sound so that it is all mixed into a white or colored noise which ANC can suppress.
This is one of the safest technologies I can imagine.
It's more likely that the radio waves from wireless communication (phones, Bluetooth headphones etc) will have negative impact, but even that's unlikely at this point, considering how widespread their use is and no statistically significant link exists.
And yeah, I also don't trust all these radio waves we have going everywhere and wonder if big events with hundreds of thousands of phones are doing at least some damage.
Things seem unlikely til we realise. Like plague spreading through bad smells. We were close but dismissive.
Anyway I hope I'm not right, but it still plays in my mind.
No, they cancel out in front of your ears. If you imagine a bowl of water which has waves on it with a small buoy, then the noise cancelling is another wave emitter placed in front of the buoy that cancells out the Waves that are about to hit the buoy.
It's a very physical technology. The amazing/magical part of it is that the microphones pick up the Waves quickly enough for the headphones to emit the inverted wave.
I should watch a "how it works" video on this.
TBH at this point, I wouldn't even object to losing my hearing to have forever ANC (hearing loss) and turning up the hearing aid.
E: no offense to those with hearing loss in this thread
Much better to wear headphones than to need hearing aids (also: some forms of hearing loss aren’t helped by hearing aids. Mine, for example).