"... Take the telephone in the bathroom. Now, having grown up in a large family, I have never actually had the nerve to use a telephone in the bathroom.

The problem with using a telephone in the bathroom, Mr. Hickox explained, is that 'it sounds like you're in the bathroom, with that cavernous echo.'

His team's solution was to design a bathroom phone that electronically cancels the echo, even when using the hands-free phone installed near the tub."

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