QuietOn Sleep, earplugs that claim to vanquish the noise of snoring, were revealed in London at the Wearable Technology Show 2018, as the presales of the gadget began on Indiegogo.
Note that the Finnish company QuietOn Ltd doesn’t promise that it can stop snoring. Not at all. Instead, it has developed a noise-canceling in-ear wearable which is designed to keep snoring noises and other low-bandwidth sounds from reaching your hearing. Earplugs generally find these frequencies hard to keep at bay, but the signal processing in QuietOn Sleep is designed specifically to deal with those snoring-type sounds.
It’s the latest product from QuietOn, with the current model aimed at quelling aircraft engine noise to make it easier to sleep on a plane.
Touching the earbud, by the way, turns off the noise-canceling, if you need to do that, though it’s aimed at keeping out those snoring sounds, not everything, so voices can still be heard.
QuietOn says the battery lasts for 20 hours between charges and the carrying case it comes with also functions as a charger. The current QuietOn model costs $221 (€179) and this new model will cost $239, though early birds on Indiegogo can grab them for $109. The first models will be available at the end of the year, probably from October.
recourse Forbes