The signal in the noise

Quick post: Herman Miller offshoot Sonare Technologies is developing a super-weird technology that gives acoustic privacy to an open cubicle by playing little scrambled snippets of your voice over a speaker. It automatically starts when you're on the phone. People can hear you, but they can't pick out your meaningful syllables from the sea of nonsense noises. It's like having your own psycho backup vocals. (Thanks, HardOCP and Wired News.)