A Two-Person Startup Has Fixed One of the Most Hated Sounds in Modern Life
Jeremy WhiteGearJul 28, 2026 7:00 AMA Two-Person Startup Has Fixed One of the Most Hated Sounds in Modern LifeBeeeep. Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.Photo-Illustration: Wired Staff; Getty ImagesCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyI behave very strangely in my kitchen. On any given day, you will find me, often mid-conversation, sprinting from one end of the room to the other.
- ▪Jeremy WhiteGearJul 28, 2026 7:00 AMA Two-Person Startup Has Fixed One of the Most Hated Sounds in Modern LifeBeeeep.
- ▪Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.Photo-Illustration: Wired Staff; Getty ImagesCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyI behave very strangely in my kitchen.
- ▪On any given day, you will find me, often mid-conversation, sprinting from one end of the room to the other.
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| Publication time | Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:00:00 +0000 |
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Jeremy WhiteGearJul 28, 2026 7:00 AMA Two-Person Startup Has Fixed One of the Most Hated Sounds in Modern LifeBeeeep. Beeeep. Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.Photo-Illustration: Wired Staff; Getty ImagesCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyI behave very strangely in my kitchen. On any given day, you will find me, often mid-conversation, sprinting from one end of the room to the other. Nothing on the stove has caught fire. No pots are boiling over. I am trying to reach the microwave oven before its counter hits zero.Why? I detest so deeply its shrill beep heralding the completion of its reheating duties that it's almost as if the appliance has trained me, through operant conditioning, to open its door at T-minus 1 second, so the grating noise is silenced before it…
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