In another example of companies catering to people that need to justify their anti-social behavior with a need for absolute silence, Yamaha is coming out with a simple one-person room called My Room II.
The new My Room is a soundproof block with all the amenities of a cardboard box, but with less room and a little bit more technology. Inside the Room, a touch panel control allows the user to control the air-conditioner and overall temperature, and comes with an embedded 66-watt fluorescent light. It’s also lined with a flame-proof carpet that further quiets the space.
We couldn’t find the decibel level the insulated panel walls can suppress, but if it’s presumably good enough to use as an office within an office as Yamaha suggests, it’s likely to be able to handle between 60 (normal conversations) and 80 decibels (city traffic).
But most critically, the room deludes the user into thinking about something other than the depressing fact that the human population is increasing to such a degree that suffocatingly tiny rooms are necessary to get some peace and quiet.
Overall, the popularity of miniaturized personal spaces is growing. Earlier this year, we featured mini houses that adjusted the American dream of owning a home down to a simple, spruced up RV shack featuring only the most necessary amenities.
Yamaha is not getting into the mini-house craze just yet, but they are also selling an even quieter personal room called the Cefine II. It’s a slightly larger room for jamming and practicing music, with better acoustics and thicker walls.
The My Room II is currently available in Japan for $6,500, and the Cefine II comes in at $15,000.
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