Thing of the day: smart earplugs to help sleep despite the noise

Loud snoring, music from the neighbors, the hum of cars on the street - now nothing you will not hurt.

Problems with the rest in urban areas occur frequently. The screams behind the wall, signaling the window and annoying snoring family members is not always possible to hide pillows. In the subway or the bus loud noises also have a negative impact on our state, especially if it is a long trip every day.

Former employees of Nokia have developed a comfortable earplugs to cope with noise by using the active suppression systems. A microphone installed in the device, which records an unpleasant sound and then fed to the internal speaker sound the same, but with a shifted phase. In imposing the two noises are neutralized, and as a result we do not hear anything.

Gag with passive noise canceling protect quite well against high frequencies, but snoring and loud bass from passing cars, they can not repay. Sounds below 500 Hz by conventional means is difficult to neutralize, so QuietOn Sleep very useful life in and to operate on noisy production. They will help to read a book on the subway, take a break in the land transport or concentrate on complex tasks.

QuietOn Sleep made of soft material and do not interfere to lie on its side. You can disable the touch of a device mode noise reduction. Included with the plugs supplied case that works as a charger. It's powered via the micro-USB port. One charge is enough for 20 hours of active work.

Order QuietOn Sleep can be on Indiegogo. One set costs $ 159, to deliver his promise in October 2018.