Real (actually brewed) root beer. Not to be confused with root beer flavored syrup mixed with carbonated water, which is 99% of what’s available.

It’s hit and miss depending on the source, but when it’s a hit… chef’s kiss

Here’s the one I’m looking at - Stemoscope Pro (lol can you tell the pandemic was in full swing when this vid hit?!)

There’s a microphone, but in the sense that you’re probably thinking - it can’t pick up conversations and such the way a phone or something could. For it to work it has to be pressed up against tissue for that sound to conduct through to it. It’ll still pick up some ambient noise, but nothing intelligible.

Basically the same with a normal stethoscope - the bell is always transmitting sound to the ear pieces, but you can’t like put the ear piece in and use it to spy on someone the next room over - gotta shove it onto their skin for anything with any degree of clarity to come through.

So, it’s not capable of storing your colonoscopy results. Paired with a phone, it could save a recording of your bowel sounds if it was used to listen for those, but even that isn’t something that could be used to identify you. Everyone’s bowels makes pretty much the same gurgle - your nurse is just checking to make sure they’re present and whether the frequency of them is normal.

All that said, I don’t like that there’s a phone app. The sounds themselves being saved is fine; but if some dumbass nurse saves that file as “John Smith.mp3” then that’s 100% a HIPAA violation. That kind of app should only ever be used on hospital-owned devices, never personal ones. Needless to say, I don’t intend to ever install the app - fuck that liability, even if it comes down to a baseless accusation. I’ll just pair it directly to a speaker, play the sounds in real time, and that’s it. If I need to listen to them again, I’ll need to take them again.

^that.

I can hear low ranges pretty well, to include heart and lung sounds from a normal stethoscope.

Using speakers or headphones that can play that 20-100 hz range would effectively bypass the hearing aids - they wouldn’t record or payback those sounds at all, it’d just be a straight shot from the Bluetooth speaker to my ears.

I actually have a pair of shokz - they’re awesome! I don’t think they’d work for this specifically though - they struggle with low ranges, and one of the Bluetooth stethoscope websites specifies that bone conduction isn’t a good match.

…might be worth a shot though - sounds quality doesn’t need to be amazing, it just needs to be audible.

Thanks!!

Looking at those graphs, I’m assuming amplitude in that 20-100 hz range is ideally as close to that center line as possible? Seems like most options are very low on that range, but not completely absent - how low would you say is too low for a project like this?

Like that Denon in your second link, 20 hz is showing at about -17 on the amplitude axis, is that audible?

Skullcandy crushers

Definitely not going to rule out headphones, as those might be the best option; but my main hangup there is bulk, and needing to actually handle it with each use. Part of why I was leaning toward those hang-around-the-neck bluetooth speakers is the thin profile and that I can just leave them on and paired with the stethoscope - then the only thing I’d have to handle is the stethoscope itself. Minimizing actually touching it is definitely a priority… can’t stress enough how nasty hospitals are!

That’s a bummer. I guess you’ll just to kill a few Nazis and take your own photos.

Their ‘dog whistle’ has sounded more like an air raid siren for at least as long as I’ve been alive.

Too many ‘comedians’ are just hate speech with a laugh track. Paired with a hateful audience, and they’ll think it’s the funniest shit ever… it’s not.

We didn’t beat the Nazis the first time with punches.

It’s time to get armed and trained.

Posting so I have a path back here, cuz same.

Boldly making obvious lies is kinda Russia’s style.

…never stops buffering.

Hopefully. But I’m not about to pretend I know where the positive feedback loops we’ve unleashed will go. Maybe the climate starts to improve a few decades after we’re all gone; maybe the greenhouse effect becomes so intense that planet earth becomes molten.

Even extremophiles have their limits - we may well have set Earth on a trajectory that ends in absolute lifelessness. Hopefully not. Probably not. But we’ve taken the keys to the planet and drove it off a cliff… whether or not anything can be made from the wreckage remains to be seen. But not by us.

Medical here. “Huh?”

We had a good run.

Best of luck to whatever the tardigrades evolve into after a few billion years… if any of them survive the hellscape we’re turning our planet into.

Crates are just the first step:

To kill the beetles, the crates of books are being placed into tall, hermetically sealed plastic sacks from which all oxygen is removed. After six weeks in the pure nitrogen environment, the abbey hopes all the beetles will be destroyed.

Roaches never just die when we need them to. There’s the possibility that the next guy won’t miss though.

5-10 consecutive record breaking hot summers, each of which accompanied by headlines examining that scientists knew it would be bad, but not this bad!

…also some orchestrated drama to act as an excuse to initiate martial law, also acting as the justification to initiate Trump’s 3rd and 4th terms.

I’ve seen studies claiming that toilet seats are among the cleanest spots in a public restroom, and that slamming your bare ass cheeks down on those things is perfectly safe.

I also work in an operating room, where we routinely chop condyloma off of people’s ass cheeks… albeit less commonly the cheeks than the hole, but enough times to showcase the fact that the cheeks are prone to spreading and contracting contact dependent pathogens.

Those studies are bullshit - always build that toilet-paper-bird’s-nest on the public toilet seat.