NuraLoop adaptive earbuds deliver audio tailored to the wearer's hearing
Australian audio company Nura has launched what it says are the world's first adaptive earphones, which alter their output to suit the user's hearing.
Announced last week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the NuraLoop earphones are a lightweight, compact version of the company's Nuraphone over-ear headphones.
Both the headphones and the earbuds pioneer a concept known as adaptive audio, where the levels are automatically adjusted to suit the user's "unique" hearing profile.
This means that a person who lacks sensitivity to low tones will receive increased bass, while a person whose sensitivity dips in the mid-tones will have those levels increased accordingly.
The earphones test a wearer's hearing when they first put them on by measuring otoacoustic emissions ? sounds generated by the inner ear in response to stimuli. The analysis takes about a minute, and as Nura puts it, there's "No need to take a 'Can you hear this"' test".
"A person's hearing is as unique as their face, fingerprint or voice," said Nura co-founder and CEO Dragan Petrovic?. "That's why trying to design a perfect sound-system without taking into account the listener's hearing system would be like trying to make glasses without asking 'Who is going to be wearing them"'"
"There is no such thing as a perfect sound-system ? only one that is perfectly matched to you,"Â Petrovic? continued.
The company's Nuraphones first launched on...
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