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Chalkboard scraping. Scraping a chalkboard (also known as a blackboard) with one's fingernails produces a sound and feeling which most people find extremely irritating. The basis of the innate reaction to the sound has been studied in the field of psychoacoustics (the branch of psychology concerned with the perception of sound and its ...
Scratch and sniff. Scratch and sniff technology is the application of a fragrant coating to items such as stickers or paperboard, so that when the coating is scratched it releases an odor that is normally related to the image displayed under the coating. The technology has been used on a variety of surfaces from stickers to compact discs.
The microwave auditory effect, also known as the microwave hearing effect or the Frey effect, consists of the human perception of sounds induced by pulsed or modulated radio frequencies. The perceived sounds are generated directly inside the human head without the need of any receiving electronic device. The effect was first reported by persons ...
These are the items Americans lose most. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the most commonly lost items were also among the most ubiquitous and important: phones and keys. Most people don't leave home ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A segment of fans in Yankee Stadium's right field bleachers chanted “U-S-A! U-S-A!” during the playing of “O Canada” on Friday night before the game between New York and ...
GER: January 25, 2006 [2] NA: March 2, 2006 [1] EU: March 16, 2007 [3] Genre (s) Adventure. Mode (s) Single-player. Scratches is a 2006 mystery horror adventure video game developed by Nucleosys and released by Got Game Entertainment. [4] It is the first commercial adventure game ever to be made in Argentina.
Elevated workplace or environmental noise can cause hearing impairment, tinnitus, hypertension, ischemic heart disease, annoyance, and sleep disturbance. [ 3][ 4] Changes in the immune system and birth defects have been also attributed to noise exposure. [ 5] Although age-related health effects ( presbycusis) occur naturally with age, [ 6] in ...
Scratch: The Ultimate DJ was a music video game announced by Genius Products in 2008. Similarly to Konami 's Beatmania series, it would have employed a specialized turntable controller (called the "Scratch Deck"), which would have allowed the player to follow along to the rhythm game while simulating common DJ techniques, such as scratching.