1. For The Home User

Once you start getting irritated and stressed by never-ending PC noise, it slowly turns into an obsession. It prompts for action and the advantages of a quiet ambience are obvious, whether you:

• Work creatively, at night?
• Run a powerful full-time home server.
• Work long hours in the home office.
• Stay connected to the Internet 24/7.
• Play games on the ultimate gaming PC.
• Make 3D graphics on multi-fan systems.
• Use the PC as a home entertainment center.
• Use extra noisy overclocked hardware.
• Require multiple PCs in your proximity.
• Sleep close to the PC.

COCOON is designed to offer the world's most effective standard solution to the noise problem and at the same time it offers privacy for your secrets and protection of the PC.

2. In the Professional Office

With one or more PCs around you, the unmatched noise relief can make the difference between an enjoyable creative effort and an unhealthy stressful environment.

For a PC that holds momentous technology, source code, copyrighted information, artworks, contracts, payrolls, accounting, or otherwise important information, consider shielding it from inquisitive minds and theft.

A COCOON cabinet cannot easily be carried away, it can be fixed firmly to the surroundings and for the average employee, it makes an impregnable fortress.

In big cities, the cost of having dedicated machine rooms can get extremely costly. No one wants to share an office with a workgroup server, but with COCOON it no longer has to be an issue.

3. Retail Shops

PCs are ugly. There's nothing pleasing to the eyes in the neutral beige cases. A PC with wires and noisy fans being squeezed under the desk in a retail store is a solution that can now be easily improved.

COCOON allows you to build a clean appearance, send a fashion statement, and at the same time maintain full functionality of the PC.

Thieves get a hard time, random kicks and blows are avoided, and unauthorized access is prevented.

In environments with excessive dust, such as that from clothing, the dust is filtered by COCOON and doesn't end up in your electronics.

4. Industrial Use and Generally Hostile Conditions

A standard PC is not designed for harsh conditions, such as those in hospitals, police stations, schools, libraries, farms, communication stands, Internet cafes, hotels, child-care institutions, military facilities, museums, factories, warehouses and more.

The PCs are used to drive sophisticated CAD/CAM systems, they operate crucial CNC machines, they control life-saving health care equipment, they provide public service to an unknown clientele, they store critical statistics, etc.

COCOON is designed to protect the PC from the surrounding environment and prolong the lifetime of potentially crucial equipment and data.

For environments where multiple people are expected to be in close proximity to the PC, the COCOON locking system prevents unauthorized access, offers protection against theft, and allows administrator access through a master key.

5. Public Use and Customer Service

Real-estate offices, accountants, law firms, bank professionals, receptionists, dentists, doctors, opticians, insurance offices, sales staff and public servants all maintain an outer appearance. They know the issues of having one or more running PCs provide stressful background noise for a conversation. It's intrusive, it reduces the quality of the service and it makes the overall impression less positive for the client.

With COCOON there is an alternative. Being aesthetically designed furniture it compliments the existing office setting. It hides away wires, it makes the office more attractive and it blocks the dreadful PC noise. It gets easier to hear and concentrate on phone conversations, as well as making the direct communication more pleasant and relaxed.

6. Creative Professionals

Less monotonous background noise increases the ability to concentrate, it lowers the stress level and results in a more enjoyable overall experience.

7. Parental Lock and Delicate Ears

Don't give in to infants that insist on unattended Internet surfing, spend the full day playing games, or otherwise make undesirable use of an always available PC.

Now parents have a new way to enforce parental control. Simply turn off the computer, lock the cabinet doors and keep the key in a secret place.

When you place children next to computers, also consider the child's delicate ear. Children have better hearing than adults and the learning ability of a child is best stimulated in quiet environments.

8. Protecting the Health

According to the book "Noise & Health", noise can make you sick. Noise causes stress, and stress can be a cause for illness and suicide. Therefore any form of noise can be considered pollution if it causes annoyance, sleeplessness, fright, or any other stress reaction.

The developers of COCOON have some personal experience in this area. They were exposed to daily noise of 10-15 computers for 15 years. They had no real problems with noise - except general annoyance, but that all changed almost from one day to the other. Abstracting from the noise was no longer possible and the noise would lead to general anxiety. A lot of solutions were tried, but there was always one PC left somewhere, some new hardware or some small amount of PC noise to gently spoil the silence. COCOON has offered unique relief and it's a pleasure to bring this product to the public.

The effect of computer noise on tinnitus offers enough material for a complete web site. A few established facts are that stress makes tinnitus worse and that PC noise generally isn't helpful. We will post the feedback we get on the subject.

The book "Noise and Health" is edited by Thomas H. Fay and published by The New York Academy of Medicine (1991).