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Also, how is this different from using in-ear headphones with Comply tips? http://www.complyfoam.com/
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That said, my ear canal soreness is largely due to canal deformation relating to jaw movement. Perhaps this is not an issue for sleeping. Also, foam earplugs (compared to earphones) are not uncomfortable for me.
Developer here! Hoping to get some feedback if possible!
Personally I'm less interested in the ability to be interrupted by alerts from a smartphone. When I'm sleeping I want to sleep. When I'm working, I can get vibration alerts from my phone.
Have you considered a 'dumb' version with just pre-recorded masking audio and no wireless features?
On planes, for instance, I wear headphones over my earplugs and crank up the volume to watch movies. It's the poor-man's noise-canceling headphones! If you can, also turn up the treble to try to flatten out the combined frequency response of the plugs+phones.
Obviously my hack doesn't solve the same problems this product does, but it's a trick I've found useful.
These are definitely not the world's first smart earplugs - Etymotic has been offering this kind of technology for quite a long time now. http://www.etymotic.com/gsp15.html
Developer here! Hoping to get some feedback if possible!
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What about the need to be woken up by external events which aren't connected to your smart phone? The immediate example I think of is a fire alarm.
Our plans are to tie into the greater smart home! Think Nest, smart baby monitors, smart security systems, etc. We've already been talking with a number of OEM's like Samsung who want us to use their ecosystem :) But for this V1, we can't effectively block out a fire alarm.. those are really loud.. We can block out maybe 70dB max with our device whereas fire alarms are generally much much louder!