Tone, the organization ‘s latest homegrown browser addon, uses sound to instantly share URLs with anyone nearby. The extension is available in the web store of Chrome and could be utilized by any Chrome user, no matter what kind of computer they’ve.

“Tone developed out of the notion that while digital communication systems like e-mail and chat have made it infinitely simpler, more economical and quicker to share things with folks on the other side of the world, they have really made it more complex to share things with the folks standing right next to you,” Kauffmann and Smus compose. “Tone intends to create sharing digital things with nearby individuals as simple as speaking to them.”

In the testing of Mashable, the extension functioned astonishingly well — the extension managed to find the beeps from a closeby notebook when the sound was coming through earphones. The extension also has the ability to share to multiple computers simultaneously, provided each one has the extension.

Behind the scenes, the browser also is supposed to act much like real language, Smus and Kauffman say, noting that operation may fluctuate based on different variables like space volume amounts.