Mr Bouchaud is finding more than one MEMS microphone inside ever more of the products he disassembles, and these extra mikes are often being used to add noise-cancelling features.

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We're definitely down with more options too, but without an acceptable two-way standard, a bit of wheelin' and dealin' by Google could just add more noise to the mess that is the connected TV market.

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We must, of course, add to this noise some nasty facts about subprime lending, which constituted as much as 20% of U.S. mortgage lending in 2006.

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And what do we make of the obligation to play a bit part in the science of the day, the world we live in, to make more sense of it rather than add to the noise?

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That could potentially cause you embarrassment and it will certainly add greatly to the noise of your Facebook experience.

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This helps the company avoid the Facebook problem: clutter, noise, and a lot of obtrusive ads which add little or no value to the experience.

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But he said transcranial random noise stimulation could help more people because it had the potential to improve the ability to add, subtract or multiply a string of numbers in your head - not just new number learning.

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