Smart Earplugs Win Proto Labs Cool Idea! Award
Hush aims to provide better sleep
Hush Technology will use a service grant from
The wearable device market has exploded, with many products focused on collecting data on users’ sleep, but not solutions to allow for better sleep. Fitting comfortably in the users’ ear and surrounded in a soft silicone surface, Hush aims to set the stage for a good night’s sleep. The product helps users sleep through snoring, loud neighbors and a host of other noises that disturb nightly sleep without blocking the things that are necessary to hear like alarm clocks or emergency phone calls. Hush uses Bluetooth to connect with the corresponding smartphone app, where the user can choose which notifications are and are not welcome.
“Hush’s ultimate goal is to help people sleep better in the context of
others around them, and ultimately enable people to live a better
quality of life,” says
Hush utilizes a tiny speaker to deliver notifications, and also can play soft, soothing sounds like white noise, ocean waves, and rain drops for over ten hours. This grant has provided Hush Technology with the critical additive test samples needed to validate the design using Proto Labs’ additive manufacturing service, and will then follow-up by providing an initial run using the company’s injection molding service.
Lee says he plans to launch Hush by late summer 2015 and will sell the
product for a little over
“The Cool Idea! Award was established to help product designers and
engineers bring useful concepts to market,” says Proto Labs’ founder
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About
About Hush Technology
Comprised of three young engineers
guided by a number of high-powered advisors experienced with bringing
successful consumer products to market, Hush combines youthful passion
and the tried-and-true experience needed to innovate on this age old
problem of noise bothering sleep. While searching for a solution, they
were shocked by what they found; 1 in 4 American couples end up just
sleeping in separate bedrooms because of snoring and apartment dwellers
call the police for noisy neighbors more often than for any other
reason. Not content with the way people are left to deal with it,
they’ve set out to reimagine a practical way to sleep through all the
noise going on around people. For more information, visit hush.technology.
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