A group of college kids may have just figured out how to get leaf blowers to shut up

Suburban dwellers hoping to sleep in on the weekend might want to thank a group of engineering students from Johns Hopkins University . Four undergraduates designed a new leaf blower silencer that quiets the otherwise raucous piece of machinery.

Leaf blowers have long had a reputation for being a disruptive part of suburban life, with their distinct monotonous roar a staple of autumn leaf-gathering across the U.S. Aside from being an irritating, if convenient, alternative to raking leaves manually, leaf blowers also represent a $1.5 billion global industry as of 2022, according to market research firm Research and Markets.

“That process was really cool, because it was a little bit of a different side of the engineering field,” Morrison said. “How do you prove your invention? How do you fully capture it from a legal perspective?” Toward the end of the project, Greene asked the group to redesign their product so it could be manufactured using an injection mold, which is better suited for mass production, instead of 3D printing, which they had used for their prototypes, according to Andrew Palacio, a member of the group. That’s when they realized Stanley Black and Decker saw real potential in their design.

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