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Enjoy the Silence

Because his parents didn’t have enough money for a model train when he was a child, Amar Gopal Bose bought a defective set and went about fixing it up. As a teenager, he opened a home business repairing transistor radios. In 1964 he founded the Bose Corporation, and around 1988 the company built the first headphones with active noise-canceling technology. With the latest model, you can stand in the middle of today’s bustling world, listen to the above song by Depeche Mode and just enjoy.

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