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Feeling, um, flush?

Ever feel embarrassed by the sounds emanating from behind the doors in a public restroom? Want to solve the problem somehow? Well, as the slogan goes, there's an app for that.

Now, armed with a 99-cent program, your iPhone can mask unpleasant (ahem) toilet noise with sweeter bathroom sounds. Cover Up is an application that mimics hand dryers, running water and other sounds that help drown out the organic ones.

If you’d rather make these noises than muffle them, the iPhone can accommodate you. I found a bevy of fart sound effect apps, including: iFart Mobile and iFart — Atomic Fart — 99-cents each — and freebie fart apps Atomic Fart FREE and Fart for Free. They’re highly rated; each gets at least three stars out of a possible four.

Just picture the dueling iPhones behind closed doors, one with the Cover Up app and the other with a fart-generator. Is it live, or is it an app?

Sadly, I know people who will actually pay for these apps. Goes to show you that 99 cent stores exist for a reason.

See more of the masking app at Coverup.me and this video:

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