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Re: Hush: The World's First Smart Earplugs

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Post by d4n13ll33 »

lnanek2 wrote: post #78

Hmm, I don't really see any benefit over my current solutions. I can wear cheap foam/silicone ear plugs and just set my alarm louder. Sometimes I just sleep with small rubber wired ear buds in (not the hard plastic ones) if I want to listen to audio while going to sleep. Never had any trouble with either method enough to pay this much. Props to these people if they can manage to market people into paying that much fo…

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 not only myself, but a lot of the people I've interviewed

Re: Hush: The World's First Smart Earplugs

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Post by benjamincburns »

Would be nice if I didn't need to download a 2.1 MiB image to view this page. Could probably keep the visual appeal here without the bloat by simply switching to JPEG.

Edit:

Also I'm having a hard time understanding your value proposition. Are these doing some active noise canceling, or are they just simply a bluetooth headset with semi-decent passive noise suppression?

Also, why would I want these to be connected to my smartphone while I'm sleeping? Am I going to be woken up by every text/e-mail?

Point being, when I read the copy at the top of your page I instantly think that your product is going to make my ability to sleep worse rather than better.

Edit 2:

The rest of the page clears up some of my questions, but I think you'd have a lower bounce rate if you worked on the headline copy a bit more.

Re: Hush: The World's First Smart Earplugs

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Post by d4n13ll33 »

benjamincburns wrote: post #82

Would be nice if I didn't need to download a 2.1 MiB image to view this page. Could probably keep the visual appeal here without the bloat by simply switching to JPEG. Edit: Also I'm having a hard time understanding your value proposition. Are these doing some active noise canceling, or are they just simply a bluetooth headset with semi-decent passive noise suppression? Also, why would I want these to be connected to…

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 sounds. These are two of the better noise isolation solutions out there combined into one small package.

You want to be connected to your smartphone so you can hear some of the things you need to hear - those being an alarm clock, an emergency phone call from someone important, etc. We have a dashboard so you can control which notifications you want to be disturbed by.

Hopefully by giving you the control to block out everything and only hear the things that you ABSOLUTELY need to hear, we can give you a peace of mind to be able to sleep better

Re: Hush: The World's First Smart Earplugs

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Post by illicium »

d4n13ll33 wrote: post #25
errantspark wrote: post #22

Doesn't Kickstarter have a policy against using renders? https://www.kickstarter.com/rules "we prohibit photorealistic renderings."

When I spoke with someone from Kickstarter, they said that it's a safeguard against 'vaporware.' As long as you show evidence of your actual prototype (boards, CAD models, etc) and that real engineering is complete, it's fine!

So why aren't there photos of your final 1x scale prototype? The evolution pic is a render, which leads me to believe that engineering challenges will prevent you going from breadboard to 2x to 1x scale, making this project dead in the water.

Re: Hush: The World's First Smart Earplugs

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Post by function_seven »

foxylad wrote: post #65
d4n13ll33 wrote: post #9

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?

I'll stick my own off-topic comment under yours. I agree. All the emoticons and LOL's and extremely liberal use of the exclamation mark just rubs me the wrong way.

We're probably picking nits. I'm sure Mr. Lee doesn't intend that impression at all, and is probably overcompensating to make sure his tone isn't misread as hostile or argumentative. I've noticed myself doing this at times, seeing how often other commenters infer a different tone than what was intended.

Re: Hush: The World's First Smart Earplugs

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Post by maqr »

nordsieck wrote: post #7

The large 70db next to "hush the world" makes it sound like the earplugs offer 70db of noise reduction. Which I know is BS, because the best earplugs made offer 33db of noise reduction. I can only assume that the 70db number is the sum of the noise attenuation and the speakers' volume, but specific claims about the earplugs performance would be nice.

Thanks, that makes much more sense. It's really misleading because most pairs of IEMs and earplugs do list the NRR in db. I routinely sleep in my SE535's, which offer 37db NRR (I looked it up after seeing their 70db claim).

Re: Hush: The World's First Smart Earplugs

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Post by d4n13ll33 »

boards2x wrote: post #87

Find it shameful that even though it seems most of the developers are clearly non-white (see about-us), they use standard stock images of Caucasians. I would never buy a product promoted this way.

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