What Sound is Capable of, and How the Schemers Have Profiteered on It

Instead, the cutting-edge sound technology has also leveraged soundwaves to either detect bombs, manufacture water-resistant windshields, convert heat into sound, from which generates electricity, operate brain surgery or lift heavy objects.

It's not to mention other auditory science fields, to illustrate, acoustic phonetics, psychoacoustic, bioacoustic, and musicology and its sub-branch, evolutionary musicology.

But we're not getting you to slog through such unreadable things painfully. Instead, we're working on the aspects of sound that seem "every day to humans.

1. How sound serves as a saving grace to us

Music has granted us "exclusively" outstanding abilities. Diagnosed with achromatopsia, a rare vision disease, Neil Harbisson had been incapable of distinguishing between blue (of the sky) and green (of plants). From the very moment he had been born, the world in the eyes of the musician-artist had been purely a pale grey.

By 2003, together with the University of Plymouth, the computer scientist Adam Montandon invented an electronic eye that granted Neil the colour "hearing" capability. At every core, the eye was a sensor to detect the colour "frequency", which was then sent to the microchip implanted into the occipital region, transmitted to the skull as sound vibration. After all, Neil could eventually coevally hear others out while discerning "sounds" of the colours he was looking at.

The "new body part" has since got him to take up a novel perception in this world. His everyday life has been any less of a never-ending concert. Neil can now wear C-style outfits, decorate the cookings in alignment with his favourite songs (the notorious Lady Gaga salads), "leveraging" chords to do portraits and even redrawing music and speech masterpieces.

Also, those born blind can now count on the alternative sensors that act as a precursor to interchangeable audio-vision inputs. To all appearances, such cutting-edge technologies might as well unfold the auspicious human-integrated technology relationship; in other words, turning the novel cyborg concept into reality.

Capable of lifting mood and bringing about positive emotions, music therapy has piece by piece thrived as an up-and-coming therapeutic medical industry. Not only does it offer therapy to mental illness (either depression, schizophrenia or psychosis), it has also efficaciously tackled hearing disorders, take, for example, tinnitus and hypersensitivity to sound.

2. Better cows' "appetite" and crop productivity.

Studies have evidenced how classical music might boost up milk production. Still, it is as much baffling whether they savour the music or crave so badly some fleeting moments of bliss on those desperately miserable farms.

On the other hand, how about music on yielding crops? Not so long after this was put forward, scientists eventually concluded that it did increase crop yields. As early as 1962, the Indian botanist Dr T. C. Singh discovered that balsams could grow 20% higher and 72% heavier (in terms of biomass) upon getting exposed to classical music. Taken aback, he experimented raga (Indian traditional music) on other crops, concluding that it boosted the yield up to 60%.

Sound as well as accelerates germination and strengthens plants' immune system. Leveraging soundwaves, scientists could successfully stave off ticks, aphids, grey mould, downy mildew and greenhouse tomatoes' virus. As far as can be seen, it must have been the sound vibrations transmitted in the air that stimulated the plants' fierce reactions.

Given these agricultural achievements, sounds have been drawn out as somewhat mysterious, as-much-efficient to humans and a golden calf too, after all, profiteer on.

3. Neither sound nor everything else is not that miraculous.

In all likelihood, the aforementioned outstanding sound achievement might hardly suck you in, at least not as violently as the so-called videos with "sound to change eye "colour and "sound to grow higher".

We've many a time warned you of frauds cloaked up as science, take, for example, fingerprint biometrics and the Law of Attraction. So have sound-related scams.

The so-called "sonic hues" have been counted on to improve one's performance, concentration span and learning abilities.

Studies, however, have evidence that white noise (from such rattle inputs as television's and radios) is rather benign in learning vocabulary. It also, howbeit in short terms, expands our concentration and "sings us to sleep".

In contrast, in the long run, researchers asserted that patients with tinnitus perpetually treated by white noise had their central heating system and brain's functions and structure deteriorated, let alone the crippling risk of brain-ageing. Mice getting permanently exposed to the noise yielded pretty much the same outcomes.