“The eye takes a person into the world. The ear brings the world into a human being.”
Lorenzo Oken
Imagine yourself wearing your brand new pair of highly fashionable wireless and ultra-small smart earbuds comfortably tucked away within your ears. Imagine that within these tiny devices lives a turbo-charged computer, a high-fidelity audio system, and a sophisticated set of sensors specifically designed to improve your well-being and quality of life.
While you are going about your daily routine, your ear buddies are busy monitoring, filtering, or enhancing what goes in, listening to your requests, and providing real-time feedback and personalized recommendations based on how all that stimuli impact the state of your mind and body.
Imagine that through these stylish tech companions, you can:
- Filter out unwanted background noise from busy restaurants, traffic, or shared workspaces.
- Listen to high-quality audio of your favorite music, meditation, or motivational speaker.
- Amplify the voice of a selected person in a crowded room to hear them more clearly.
- Converse with people speaking another language through a spontaneous translator.
- Enhance the quality of your sleep.
- Communicate more seamlessly with your personal voice assistant (Alexa, Siri, etc.).
- Replace those other wearables wrapped around your head, chest, or wrists.
- Hear music better at an outdoor concert while keeping volume levels at a healthy threshold.
- Measure the real-time impact auditory input has on your performance, productivity, and well-being.
- Seamlessly monitor your emotional and physiological states, and receive personalized solutions, on demand, for shifting them.
- Track and share vital healthcare data with your doctor without having to go to a lab or hospital, or being tied down by the wiring from traditional medical monitors.
- Refine the quality of personalized content and therapeutic recommendations for optimizing your well-being, performance, and happiness.
Welcome to the world of Hearables.
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