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For anyone who sleeps on their side, earplugs with plastic extending outside the ear canal is a very uncomfortable experience. How is this an improvement over s

For anyone who sleeps on their side, earplugs with plastic extending outside the ear canal is a very uncomfortable experience. How is this an improvement over soft foam inserts? Also, how is this different from using in-ear headphones with Comply tips? http://www.complyfoam.com/ http://www.complyfoam.com/

d4n13ll33 12y ago
We've done a lot of tests with the ergonomics of it - even delaying our launch for a month so that we could iterate more because the side-sleeper comfort wasn't up to par. it's smaller and rounder than what you see in the video as we filmed the first half of the video before our final design. ~70% of the people we had sleep with it for an entire night noted that it was comfortable. that number will get even better as we implement the inner silicone layer. the main difference between using in-ear headphones with comply tips is wires. I've had to used wired for a long time and it was terrible. They'd tangle and get pulled out of my ear. They'd pull my phone out of the charger. I've even had my phone run out of battery in the middle of the night because it got disconnected. When you roll around, wires in bed are not a pleasant experience. :( Also, the software built in is very different. Normal earphones don't have our user-friendly software that has features designed for sleep. I.e. when an alert sounds on your phone with normal earphones, it sounds in both your headphones and your phone's speaker - waking up others around you. There might be some hacked homebrew way of getting some of Hush's software features on normal earphones but our software makes it easy. :)
- errantspark 12y ago
  So your main selling points versus the competition is lack of wires and ease of use? Would you agree if you're not bothered by wires or complexity a pair of active noise cancelling canalphones with Comply tips will outperform Hush by a wide margin?
  - d4n13ll33 12y ago
    I wouldn't quite say "outperform" as I'm not aware of noise cancelling+foam tipped IEM's that are comfortable. Someone could very well make their own app to have the same software features as us, use a very comfortable foam tipped iem and have a very similar experience if they don't care about the wires! I do agree with that!

d4n13ll33 12y ago

We've done a lot of tests with the ergonomics of it - even delaying our launch for a month so that we could iterate more because the side-sleeper comfort wasn't up to par. it's smaller and rounder than what you see in the video as we filmed the first half of the video before our final design. ~70% of the people we had sleep with it for an entire night noted that it was comfortable. that number will get even better as we implement the inner silicone layer. the main difference between using in-ear headphones with comply tips is wires. I've had to used wired for a long time and it was terrible. They'd tangle and get pulled out of my ear. They'd pull my phone out of the charger. I've even had my phone run out of battery in the middle of the night because it got disconnected. When you roll around, wires in bed are not a pleasant experience. :( Also, the software built in is very different. Normal earphones don't have our user-friendly software that has features designed for sleep. I.e. when an alert sounds on your phone with normal earphones, it sounds in both your headphones and your phone's speaker - waking up others around you. There might be some hacked homebrew way of getting some of Hush's software features on normal earphones but our software makes it easy. :)

errantspark 12y ago
So your main selling points versus the competition is lack of wires and ease of use? Would you agree if you're not bothered by wires or complexity a pair of active noise cancelling canalphones with Comply tips will outperform Hush by a wide margin?
- d4n13ll33 12y ago
  I wouldn't quite say "outperform" as I'm not aware of noise cancelling+foam tipped IEM's that are comfortable. Someone could very well make their own app to have the same software features as us, use a very comfortable foam tipped iem and have a very similar experience if they don't care about the wires! I do agree with that!