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The bottom right picture in the evolution of hush montage is our final 1x scale prototype. We zoomed a bit but it's much smaller than the prototypes to the left of it.

Hmm, I can't fully follow the logic here but that's alright. agree to disagree.

Dang. Thanks for noting that. We'll swap that out :) They are not doing active noise cancelling - they do passive noise reduction with an earplug and noise masking using soothing s…

Out of curiosity, which small rubber wired earbuds do you use? Also, you may have not had trouble with either method but others have. Wires are pretty dang inconvenient in sleep to…

Unfortunately, there is no physical way that we can be significantly more comfortable than soft foam earplugs as we have to house electronics and a battery inside :/ Have you tried…

We're not noise cancellation. We're noise isolation for sleep - something that investors have told us time and time again that they didn't think people would pay money for. I think…

I guess we're just hesitant to add extra hardware now because fitting everything initially was a bit of a pain. True on the opening up of the API - we'll most likely end up opening…

No they aren't. We have 500 cycles (I believe, maybe more if we change the charge rate) of our battery before it goes to 80% of max capacity, which is still 8 hours. Even if you we…

Some people do like the silicone tree design earplugs more than the foam. It varies. We are considering providing some of those as a stretch goal! Yeah, the variations of ears is d…

The noise masking we do allows you to mask out the breathing/bodily sounds you make

If you forget to charge, the earplugs will automatically turn off the noise masking early to make sure it has enough juice to still sound the alarm in the morning.

Interesting thought on how the lower frequencies that make it through mask out that frequency spectrum.

Hmm, I do use it quite often - haven't had anyone call me out on it before though. Will note, thanks

Hmm, yeah. That's some pretty interesting insights though! Thanks for sharing. Then it wasn't the foam, it's probably that their ears got irritated from that plastic housing - I've…

Cool thanks! :D I use a wired version all the time and I love how I can zone in and ignore the things going on around me! Motion sensing would be a bit of an expensive add-in. :( W…

There are a lot of weird plastic shapes to the Quietpro design that I can see irritating and making someone's ear bleed. If it was the foam causing people to bleed, I'd find that v…

Active noise cancelling is actually more effective if it's the engine drone that's bothering you! If it's the baby crying next to you, Hush can be more effective.

I thought something had triggered wrong with the algo because we were at #9 then 10 seconds later were at #99. I just didn't think that was normal :/

Yeah, some others I've talked with didn't like that with normal earplugs, because it brings down the noises around you, it amplifies the sounds inside your head. That's also one of…

The $99 isn't any different. Yeah a couple people got confused :( It's just a cheaper early adopter price that has a limited quantity!

Well there are notifications that most people need (i.e. alarm clock, emergency phone calls, etc) If you had a daughter out past curfew and a snoring spouse, you can sleep through …

New thread going on at the FP. This one was brought down for a reason unknown to me as all the traffic was organic! :(

Developer here! We had a great discussion going on a second ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8620617 We were shooting up the FP up to the #9 spot but for some reason,…

This is true for some people but there are a lot of people that do sleep with earplugs/earbuds in! I do agree that our idea doesn't work for everyone - people with sensitive ears a…