In the World Around You

Nothing kills the experience of a five-star dinner like the shrieks of a crying baby at a nearby table. But imagine if, rather than wincing with frustration, you could simply turn down the baby’s volume?

That’s the promise behind Doppler Labs’ latest invention: earbuds that serve as your personal audio mixer to control real-time sounds in your environment. Adjust the bass levels at a live concert. Turn your coworker’s voice up — or down. Add reverb in a small room to get a concert hall effect. Doppler’s Here buds, unveiled on Kickstarter this week, promise to allow you to choose what you hear, and how.

Filtering Sound

Here buds rely on signal processing algorithms that target certain sound frequencies as they enter the headphones. An internal microphone processes the sound waves, then a miniature speaker blasts additional waves to add, delete or alter the sound based on the chosen algorithm. Finally, a second microphone picks up the remixed sound wave and sends it into your ears.

This entire process happens in less than 30 microseconds.

The Future of Augmented Hearing

The Here buds are still prototypes — Doppler is currently accepting donor pledges on Kickstarter, and they hope to ship 1,000 sets of Here buds to early backers by December. The buds will cost $179 now, but $249 after they are fully released.

And this tech is just the first step in changing the way we hear the world. Over time, Doppler says they want to bring bionic hearing into the mainstream, and they’re using Kickstarter to reach out to a demographic of concertgoers, programmers and wearable technology fanatics who are on the cutting edge. From there, the possibilities are wide open.

Source: discovermagazine

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