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April 16, 2011 Post a Comment Leo puts balloons in this ears!
Eers is a unique set of earphones. They're molded to fit your ears, but here's the surprising part. The molding process is done at home, and you do it! The first thing you do is put on the sort of strange looking headphone device in the photo. Then when you're ready to have your custom earbuds made, you trigger a switch located over each ear. A small balloon type device inflates in your ears and you'll slowly hear all the background noise disappear. Now you have to sit still, and not talk for four full minutes. You shouldn't your open either. This is critical, because your earbuds are being formed right in your ears. Leo says there's no pain, just a funny feeling for the first few seconds as the balloon inflates. After the four minutes are up, you break off the headphone forming device and you're left with a perfect fittings pair of Eers! Custom-made earphone can cost a $1,000 or more and you have to go to an audiologist for a fitting, wait a week or so and then set your ear mold to an earphone manufacturer. Here the whole process is done in just four minutes. There are two versions of Eers. A single speaker version is about $150 and a dual speaker version is $300. There's a demo at the website below. Eers will be available shortly.
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