San Francisco-based Dopplar Labs has developed a pair of earbuds that let you customize how the world sounds.
Here Active Listening System filters and processes real-world sounds around through two wireless, in-ear buds and a smartphone app, essentially becoming a remote control for your ears complete with volume knob, equalizer and effects.
There are recreational functions – like boosting bass at a club or adjusting reverb at a live show – but also some pretty impressive ergonomic like silencing the cry of a baby or curbing construction noise. You can activate filters for specific situations, like Instagram for audio, and even apply a volume knob to life overall.
You can sit in the nosebleeds and get the dugout experience. In your ears, at least.
Reviews of the technology have been largely favourable, and its production is as good as secured with almost all of its $250,000 kickstarter target already funded within a few days.
CEO Noah Kraft calls Here’s innovative “superhuman hearing 1.0” and is already focusing on even more progressive, long-term possibilities for ear-embedded tech.
We’re already impressed, but if Here could one day turn The Most Annoying Sound in the World into soothing swings of jazz, we’ll be truly blown away.