Some helpful lads in Queen Mary’s University in London have come up with a clever piece of software which “de-Vuvuzelates” your telly signal, rendering impotent that irritating drone which accompanies all world cup matches.
In case you’ve managed to somehow avoid all the excitement, the drone is caused by an incredibly loud and irrating plastic horn blown at football matches by everybody in South Africa: the Vuvuzela. The effect on telly is like a swarm of angry wasps hanging just outside your living room door.
The catch is, you need to be watching the world cup on your computer using software that can use the plugin. Still, we applaud the effort.
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