These Headphones Will Change The Way You Listen To Music
They look as good as they sound.
It's time to toss your tangled pair of Apple headphones aside.
On any given day we see people walking down the street, on the treadmill at the gym, or on the subway with those little white earbuds in their ears. What they lack in quality they make up for in convenience, seeing as though we get a free pair with pretty much every Apple product we purchase.
But why sacrifice the sound of music when more efficient ways of listening are available?
Cue the Australian start-up Nura who just launched a Kickstarter campaign the first set of headphones that combines neuroscience, acoustics and deep hearing that will make you want to leave that tangled pair of headphones on your nightstand.
At first glance, the Nura headphones look like your typical over-the-ear headphones.
Not so fast.
The co-founder of Nura, Luke Campbell, is an MD from Melbourne, Australia, who also has a PhD in hearing sciences. He explained to Cool Hunting that the technology used has "been known in hearing science circles for decades. This is not a new concept. It's even used in newborn hearing testing."
Campbell took his knowledge and created the headphones with the hearing spectrum in mind.
"After we've worked out what frequencies and tones you are hearing well all within normal hearing range we compensate for elements in your own spectrum," Campbell said.
After a closer look, you'll see that the Nura headphones have a pair of in-ear buds coming from the inside of each headphone.
The unique design is essential for the quality listening experience Nura provides. These extra pieces are essential for Nura headphones. Each bud contains a small microphone that the device uses to listen to the inside of your ear. Nura uses the recordings to figure out what kind of audio works best for your ears.
It's like your favorite music is tailor made to your ears, giving you all the more reason to crank your favorite playlist. How do they do this, exactly? It all starts with setting the headphones up via the Nura app.
The headphones have the capability to create the perfect sound profile based on the shape of your inner ear, and there's an app for that.
Before you use the headphones they must first be calibrated using Nura's phone app. You must adjust the in-ear portion of the headphones so that the app can pick up the sound coming from your inner ear.
"Our headphones place a very sensitive microphone in the ear canal, which reads those signals and analyzes them to work out which frequencies you heard well, and which frequencies you heard not so well," said Campbell said.
The headphones will then play certain tones that cause your hair cells to vibrate.
These sounds are picked up by the microphone, and then they are analyzed by the headphones. The setting up process is supposed to take one a minute. After the process is complete the app will display your listening profile which is then stored inside the headphones.
The headphones can store two listening profiles, which means you can share them with another person.
A pair of headphones you can adjust to your own ears and share with someone else? Sounds too good to be true, but it isn't. Nura headphones are working their way to your ears soon.
You can reserve your very own pair of Nura headphones on Kickstarter for an early bird price of $199.
As the campaign grooves toward their Kickstarter goal, and they have an anticipated delivery date of April 2017.