JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — As South Africa gears up to host next year’s soccer World Cup, there are plenty of doomsayers predicting the worst. If transportation shortages don’t ruin the event, crime ...

The 2010 World Cup kicked off with a bang – or should I say – a curious, cacophonous chorus of South African vuvuzela. Vu-vu-ze-what you might be asking. No, vu-vu-ze-la, as in the Setswana name for a ...

Noisemaker's sound is intense enough to increase risk for hearing loss. June 17, 2010 -- If you can imagine what it sounds like to be surrounded by thousands of jackhammers for about 90 minutes ...

Love it or hate it, the vuvuzela is the voice of South African soccer fans and will be on display at the 2010 World Cup. Jon Hrusa / epa / Corbis Players taking to the pitch for the World Cup games in ...

South Africans love the vuvuzela, the cheap, three-foot long horn that makes every TV broadcast sound like there’s a weird buzz in the background. Despite widespread complaints FIFA president Sepp ...

Although it can’t fix the World Cup’s officiating mistakes, a company called Audioanamix has devised a solution to another gripe dogging the tournament by silencing the buzzing drone of the vuvuzela ...

The vuvuzela has blasted its way into the Oxford Dictionary of English for the first time after becoming the sound of the World Cup. Along with other new words like tweetup, cheeseball and turducken, ...

What has been the most successful, annoying, intrusive and beloved new product to hit the market in recent times? My vote for New Product of the Year in 2010 already goes to one seriously disruptive ...