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Creativity-Boosting Cafe Noise Apps

The Coffitivity App Provides White Noise to Enhance Creativity

— June 7, 2013 — Tech
The new Coffitivity app provides creatively minded people with soft ambient cafe sounds to help increase their productivity. Research has shown that creativity comes easiest to those working in a mildly loud area with a peaceful blending of different people's voices as they chat. In fact, it's been found to be extremely difficult to work in a completely quiet space.

Coffitivity streams noises directly from a cafe to its users' computers. The volume can be adjusted to create different atmospheres, and iTunes music can be played over top to enhance the effects of the ambient noise. The app creators suggest playing music so that it's just a tiny bit louder than the cafe noises. This, they say, will lead to the optimal flow of creative juices.

If you're stuck on a paper, article or even just having trouble concentrating on reading through a book, the Coffitivity app is the perfect way to focus your mind and get that creative engine up and running.
Trend Themes
1. Ambient Noise Apps - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop a new app that offers a variety of ambient noises to enhance productivity and creativity.
2. Productivity-boosting Soundscapes - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Create a platform that combines different soundscapes, including cafe noises, nature sounds, and other ambient sounds, to help individuals enhance their focus and creativity.
3. Enhancing Creativity with Background Sounds - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Design a service that curates a collection of soundtracks specifically designed to stimulate creativity and provide users with the optimal environment to brainstorm and generate ideas.
Industry Implications
1. Mobile App Development - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Explore the development of mobile apps that leverage sounds and soundscapes to enhance productivity, concentration, and creativity.
2. Mental Wellness and Productivity - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Create products and services that focus on enhancing mental wellness and productivity by utilizing innovative sound technologies and techniques.
3. Workplace Productivity Tools - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop innovative tools and technologies that improve workplace productivity by leveraging the benefits of ambient sounds and soundscapes.
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