Although more convenient to carry than over-ear headphones, wireless earbuds can change frequently Uncomfortable when stuffed in your ears for hours. with that New OpenFit Wireless Earbuds, Shox Provides comfort throughout the day An open-ear design ensures you can hear everything going on around you, even with your music. They are The company’s first pair of wireless earbuds.
The Shokz OpenFit is available starting today in brown or black $180 via Amazon or the Company’s own online store.
The post-pandemic return to office life was supposed to bring an end to 0 days filled with video calls with colleagues, but no. happened. To make it easier to quickly switch between online conversations and IRL, wireless earbud makers are starting to improve these devices’ ambient sound-boosting capabilities so users don’t have to take them out while at work. But talking to someone face-to-face when your voice is artificially amplified through earbuds is not a natural interaction.
A year ago, Sony tried to solve this with it LinkBuds earbuds featured that A donut shaped drive with a hole in the middleAllows for ambient sounds, including face-to-face conversations When used to wear earrings.
Shox is there Providing ambient noise capabilities With it for many years Wireless wrap Headphones that rely on bone conduction technology. Instead of delivering sound to the eardrum through sound waves The ear canal uses bone conduction transducers, positioned at the user’s temples, to transmit vibrations through their cheekbones. wearers The ears remain Open.
A bone conduction approach requires those transducers to be pressed against the temples, so all of Shox’s wireless headphones use a flexible band that wraps around. Back of head. This is a design challenge that has so far prevented the implementation of bone conduction technology Wireless earbuds connect to each ear individually, but the company has come up with an alternative solution.
jpgThere are some compromises with the open-ear earbuds approach. For starters, the OpenFit isn’t going to sound like in-ear earbuds or over-ear headphones when listening to music, and bass performance is going to feel a little lacking, even with features like OpenBass that Shox describes. “Proprietary Low-Frequency Optimization Algorithm.” The OpenFit doesn’t deliver any noise to the user — which would defeat the purpose of their open-ear design — but it does eliminate unwanted background sounds for the person on the other end of the phone call.
Shokz reminds OpenFit Powerbeats Pro earbuds from Beats Uses an ear hook to help them stay in place during intense activities. At OpenFit, Shokz calls it the “Dolphin Arc Ear Hook,” and it’s made from a soft silicone material with a metal wire at its center. I amt acts like a soft spring for hugging and holding to the ear of the wearer.
OpenFit differs from Shox’s Bone Conduction products That’s by using what the company calls “air transmission technology.” Earbuds, unlike Apple’s AirPods, are designed to sit inside the user’s ear, where they direct sound toward the ear canal. With minimal physical contact. This has two advantages: it helps to feel more comfortable when wearing the OpenFit, and it does not block the ear canal, allowing other external sounds to reach the eardrum more easily. But unlike holding a Bluetooth speaker to your ear, with OpenFit you won’t be able to hear what others around you are listening to.
Shox promises seven hours of listening time with the Openfit alone, or up to 28 hours with the included case that allows for multiple recharges. It takes about an hour to fully recharge a dead pair Earbuds Uses a case, but can get up to an hour on a five-minute quick charge.
