If you’ve become used to getting some work done during the day at the local Starbucks, you’ll crack up with (or be wildly intrigued by) by this super clever new idea.
Designed to increase your productivity and creativity, hit the Coffitivity website which proports to get the creative juices flowing by simulating the sounds of a bustling coffee shop when you hit play at levels just under the music also playing in your headphones: Yo Sabrina, that’s a DECAF Vente vanilla latte with extra foam for Carl, got it?
No, I’m kidding. Nothing like that. More like the ambient sounds you might hear when you’re slumming it by the window, tethered to the one available outlet while you shoot out a blog post or catch up on PTA auction responsibilities. It really just sounds like someone stuck a mic in an actual coffee shop for 10 minutes and hit “record.” And you know? It is kind of comforting.
Skeptical? There’s research to support the connection of ambient noise to creative cognition. Which would explain why sometimes I work better with Bravo on in the background than nothing at all. Only drawback: at home, no vanilla lattes. Decaf or otherwise. –Liz
Check out Coffitivity at the very simple website.
[via apt therapy]
