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The idea is great, but I think that many will find that having plugs in your ears all night is not comfortable.
Developer here! Hoping to get some feedback if possible!
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We've done a lot of tests with the ergonomics of it - even delaying our launch for a month so that we could iterate more because the side-sleeper comfort wasn't up to par. it's smaller and rounder than what you see in the video as we filmed the first half of the video before our final design. ~70% of the people we had sleep with it for an entire night noted that it was comfortable. that number will get even better as…
So your main selling points versus the competition is lack of wires and ease of use? Would you agree if you're not bothered by wires or complexity a pair of active noise cancelling canalphones with Comply tips will outperform Hush by a wide margin?
man i so thought this played music, it would be the perfect headset for me. i like listening to audiobooks before sleeping and every single bt headset i tried doesn't let me move around while laying down (mostly because the wrap around the back of my head).
Yeah, we had to limit that because it is first and foremost a noise isolation device for sleep and we had to have 10 hours of sound generation to be able to get through the night :( We're considering in V2 to let it be an option to stream audio for like an hour or so and then autoshutoff! This is our "MVP"
Wristwatches produce a sound tuned carefully to the peak sensitivity of the ear, so the battery lasts a lot.
I've got two kinds of custom earplugs (different materials). Both literally have a perfect fit for my ears. Both suck to sleep in. Horrible if you're a side-sleeper, but even if your not, I find that by half-way through the night my ears don't want anything in them anymore. The idea is great, but I think that many will find that having plugs in your ears all night is not comfortable.
I do agree that our idea doesn't work for everyone - people with sensitive ears aren't going to like it no matter how comfortable we design it! :/
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They dynamically adapt to the environment. I'd call that pretty smart for earplugs - certainly more directly applicable to their intended usage than smartphone-style connectivity. [edited to remove snark]
Fair enough. Arguments about marketing aside, the 'Hush' and the 'Gun Sport Pro' have very different capabilities and serve different functions and markets. It's too easy when you see a new product to point to something similar and say 'Meh--nothing new here'. In this case I think there's real innovation and I responded to your post to try to make that point.
Developer here! Hoping to get some feedback if possible!
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
The problem as I understand it, is that the skin in the ears isn't really tough enough to stick something in there for too long. Reportedly US marines abandoned those linked above, as troops started bleeding from their ears after a certain number of hours of use. Now, that was probably 20 hours+ - not really a problem if used only for sleep or only for work. But for any kind of 24/7 use, something molded to the outer ears is probably better.