Have you ever wished to have ears with volume control options in them? Like having an annoying neighbor who blasts music that can be heard 2 blocks away, or are mildly annoyed by the city noise from cars driving through the highway and thousands of people talking at the same time? Well now you can, with this cool new tech called “Knops”.
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Knops is a volume button for your ears, allowing you to gain full control over the sounds you hear, all day.
To use Knops takes only 4 easy steps. First, you adjust it to hear what you’d normally hear without the plugs. Nothing unusual there. But the magic comes in the next 3 steps: step 2 will reduce and filter the noise of a busy city. Step 3 will tone down the volume of a live music concert so that your ears don’t fall off, and step 4 will create a completely silent and isolated environment for your ears.
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You can also easily switch between steps just in case you’re a really busy person who travels from one place to another and needs different kinds of isolation depending on the situation. Just simply twist the knob and you’re good to go, no need to plug and unplug it.
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Source: Kickstarter
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The design of the knobs are also quite ingenious- they’re round like the traditional round volume button, and its overall shape is like a gramophone speaker. Not only will you filter unwanted noise without distortion, but also enhance your personal style, with many color options to choose from!
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On the more technical aspect of things, Knobs doesn’t need any special apps to work. Heck, it doesn’t even need batteries. It’s made to work purely on the physics of acoustic engineering.
They’ve already raised 160,000 Euros with 1,700+ backers out of their 30,000 Euro goal as of the time this was written, and still has a few days to go before it’s over.
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