Abstract: An office pod enclosing a soundproof workspace inside of the pod, and including a front load-bearing frame, a rear load-bearing frame, and a skin layer attached in between the front and rear load-bearing frames so as to provide the front and rear load-bearing frames with cross-dimensional rigidity.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: providing backing track audio data, wherein each backing track includes information of at least: song tempo, tonal content that is synchronized with the backing track audio, selecting a song, receiving a real-time audio signal of the user's performance, estimating parameters, based on the audio signal, including at least: playing activity of the user, wherein detecting whether the user is producing any sounding notes with a musical instrument, tempo of the user's playing, and playing position of the user within the selected song, estimating the reliability of the estimated tempo and play position of the user, wherein a value of the reliability represents the probability that the amount of error in the estimated user tempo and play position is sufficiently small, and when the estimated reliability of the user position and tempo is sufficiently high, start playing the backing track at the user position and tempo.

Abstract: A method for sharing data-content between applications on a display of a computing device. The method includes providing an application to be currently displayed on the display of the computing device; selecting a data-content from the currently displayed application upon recognizing a pre-determined activation gesture; presenting at least one user-interface-icon associated with at least one application, other-than the currently displayed, on the display of the computing device; and sharing the selected data-content from the currently displayed application to an application associated with a user-interface-icon selected from the at least one user-interface-icon.