Enter this room to hear out emails, listen to your latest tweet or have a "floating" chat with your friend on Facebook - all by placing sound in the room exactly where you want it to be.
Sounds unreal? Well, researchers at Technical University of Berlin in Germany don't think so, Indo Asian News Service reported.
You won't need to wade through clogged emails or endless Twitter timelines once you step into their "BoomRoom."
Jorg Muller, a professor, has invented a more fun way of sifting through messages - sound.
According to IANS, in Muller's audio-enabled space, 56 loud speakers direct sound to stationary and mobile positions in a space around you.
An array of 16 gesture-recognizing cameras allow you to steer and control this audio - essentially creating an isolated cocoon of sound that only you can hear, IANS reported.
So emails and tweets fly around you like birds, each chirping a different sound that identifies the sender. More urgent messages might buzz your scalp, NewScientist magazine reported.
Gesture recognition would allow users to "touch" an email to open it and have a computer read it out loud.
Music qualities like volume, treble and bass can be altered by moving your hands apart or bringing them together. "The instruments exist in mid-air so you can do your own sound mixing," added Muller.
"The BoomRoom uses wave field synthesis (WFS) - a technique developed at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands that builds 3-D sound fields by using algorithms to either cancel or reinforce sound waves with constructive or destructive interference," explained Muller, a professor specializing in human-computer interaction.
According to IANS, this allows sound to be placed at pinpoint locations. Steering sound exactly where it is wanted is already catching on in several real-world applications.
"One day, it might even help create smart homes that can speak to their visually impaired owners," Muller was quoted as saying.
A "BoomRoom" could be used to create a more streamlined living space and reduce our reliance on so many gadgets, IANS reported.
The technology could also be a boon for gamers, the report added.
