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.
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
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
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 good quality soft earplugs? Maybe some Hearos Ultimate Softness? There are some really bad earplugs that are uncomfortable that we will be more comfortable than. But if you've used good earplugs and found them uncomfortable, I'm sorry to say, but there's no way we'll be able to make it anymore comfortable than that :(
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 it's a big market and I need Kickstarter to prove it :)
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 were to use the same device for years, the sound masking would just turn off prematurely in the night and make sure it preserves enough juice to sound the alarm in the morning
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.
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 learned a LOT about designing for the ear these past months and that shape is not ergonomic, haha!
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. :( We would want to open up the API, thinking about it but we're a little worried because we don't know if there will be much application as our feature set is very tailored to the use case that we've defined :/
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 :/
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.
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 reasons Hush is nice because the noise masking makes it so the noises inside your head, like breathing, aren't disturbingly loud