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And yet another widget that needs to be charged... What happens when I forget charging? Will I miss my alarm in the morning or will it wake me up with a low battery alarm in the middle of the night?
A low battery alarm would be about the most idiotic feature imaginable for a sleep aid, so hopefully they won't do that. Probably a blinking light on the host charger.
If anyone is looking for mid-price dumb earplugs, I read this article today. https://illmethodology.com/2014/11/tried-earplugs-amazon/ TLDR: A working DJ tried all the mid-price dumb earplugs on Amazon, and recommends EARASERS.
Very cool product. You can get a similar effect to these isolation+masking plugs by wearing normal earplugs and then playing loud masking sounds externally (either over speakers in the same room, or through over-the-ear headphones). 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…
Yeah you can! A lot of the people I interviewed actually did that - they'd wear earplugs and have a sound generator going... Haha. Kind of counterintuitive since they'd be blocking out the noise masking as well, ha! That is a good workaround though to get a similar effect! Funny how you tried to digitally equalize the earplugs low-pass filter, haha
Developer here! Hoping to get some feedback if possible!
My biggest concern generally is in-ear comfort. Short of molded customs, every in-ear headphone I've tried causes canal soreness within an hour or two, including the "sound delivery straw" designs with delicate foam or rubber surrounds. Secondarily, it looks like the current model sticks out, causing pressure if one's head is resting on its side. That said, my ear canal soreness is largely due to canal deformation re…
I guess one of the challenges for this project will be handling the variations in ear geometry.
Hacker News just broke our website, LOL You could check out what we're doing on our Kickstarter, haha. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hush/hush-the-worlds-fi...
Do they bother anyone else, or am I just out of touch with da yoof?
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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 very strange as there are millions of people that use earplugs for hours and hours on end with no problem :/
Maybe i wasn't clear: the problem appears for troops that use them in war zones: essentially days on end, not merely hours. If it was just the foam type used, I'm sure they'd try and mix it up with something more soft. That was a huge contract that was partially cancelled.
Hacker News just broke our website, LOL You could check out what we're doing on our Kickstarter, haha. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hush/hush-the-worlds-fi...
Off topic, but possibly useful information for the OP. Your use of "haha"s are quite off-putting for me, I think because to me they imply you are not taking what you just wrote seriously. Do they bother anyone else, or am I just out of touch with da yoof?
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Yeah you can! A lot of the people I interviewed actually did that - they'd wear earplugs and have a sound generator going... Haha. Kind of counterintuitive since they'd be blocking out the noise masking as well, ha! That is a good workaround though to get a similar effect! Funny how you tried to digitally equalize the earplugs low-pass filter, haha
I sleep like that, with earplugs and a white noise generator. The frequencies that make it past the earplugs are the ones you want anyway for blocking other sounds that make it past, so it's not that counterintuitive. The only sounds that now interrupt my sleep are low frequencies coming from below, through the pillow-side ear which doesn't get to hear the sound generator much.
And yet another widget that needs to be charged... What happens when I forget charging? Will I miss my alarm in the morning or will it wake me up with a low battery alarm in the middle of the night?
What I want are plugs that quiet sounds from within the body / ear canal...