Around 466M people suffer from disabling hearing loss globally, so It can be beneficial for them to cast live audio from the phone back to headphones. Inside the browser with noise reduction & works even offline. (Build as a side project in two days)
The open-ear headset that merges offline and online
Sentien Audio is the audio headset you can wear all day and it does not block your ears. You can control your device through tap, gesture, and voice controls—all on Sentien Audio. Put it on in the morning and forget about wearing it. Just like your wristwatch.
Hey everyone👋!
Imrich here, CEO of Sentien.
We are excited to introduce Sentien Audio -- an open-ear headset that merges offline and online realities. Just like smart glasses for your ears.
Solving human-computer interaction is one of the largest challenges we are facing. We wanted to call people, listen and watch content or use AI assistants without the need to take a phone out. We wanted to build a brain-computer interface or smart glasses but the technology is not there yet. So we focused on audio.
The current solutions were falling short on:
1. Availability (location specific) or
2. Compromised either online or offline reality (plugged ears or earphones out of ears).
An interface which is always available decreases these frictions. At first, we wanted to build only software but the existing open-ear headsets were falling short on basic functions.
We have been wearing and testing all form factors of open-ear headsets for more than 3 years every day. We implemented all learnings into Sentien Audio. The main points innovated on:
✅ Comfort: Ergonomic shape and adjustable fit
🎤 Microphone quality: Improved voice pickup & noise cancelling
🔋 24h+ battery life: 10h continuous play, up to 72h normal use
⚙️ 100% configurable via Sentien Connect app: Match gestures to your own actions, headset preferences, Over-the-air updates and more
We went through it all - concepts, mockups, prototypes, look-alike prototypes, works-like prototypes, working prototypes, pre-manufacturing. And now, we have raised more than $650,000 on Kickstarter.
Is Sentien Audio real? Yes! Our prototype was recently featured and tested by CNET:
Check out CNET review!
❤️🔥🐱 We like Product Hunt community so we added a limited Product Hunt Special reward (100 devices). At the end of the campaign we will refund further $20 from each headset from this tier. ($209 vs. $300 retail)
Thank you @dominikbalogh for hunting us. Feel free to ask anything!
Cheers,
Imrich
@krizmarek Which part would you improve?
We wanted to use just the "pods" in front of the ears, but glue on skin is sub-optimal, as well as titanium screws. 😬
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