Here Active Listening from Doppler Labs controls the surrounding noise so we can select what we really want to hear.
Sure, there are earplugs that completely deaden sound. We’ve all tried headphones that block the background noise of flying while sending through the flight attendant’s request to buckle our seatbelts. But the Here Active Listening earbuds allow us to tune in the frequencies we want to hear and push down those frequencies we’d rather miss.
Doppler Labs explains Here as delivering curated sound and they talk about situations where these earbuds make life a little nicer: live music concerts, subway rides, lots of Gen X settings. But we Boomer Males will find these helpful anywhere we need to separate sounds:
- Picking up the announcer’s voice and lowering crowd sounds at a football game
- Catching deer rustling leaves during a hunt
- Pinpointing fish rising in a pool with rushing water in the background
- Zeroing in on the conversation on your patio while your neighbor mows his lawn
These earbuds are not headphones nor hearing aids
The Here system configures live sound for each location or instance from your smartphone. You can control the volume and noise cancellation for a plane ride or a party. Use the five-band EQ to make live music sound the way you like it, pumping the bass or clarifying the singers’ voices is your choice. Preset filters and modes hand you quick access to many situations, and a selectable rack of sound effects make available the extra tuning you prefer.
In startup mode right now, Here has doubled its original goal on Kickstarter, which closes on July 1. Once the project closes, Here moves into final design and beginning production with product delivery slated for December 2015.
The holidays are a long ways away as we just now enter summer, but think how great the sounds might be at those holiday parties!
