Smart Earplugs Win Proto Labs Cool Idea! Award
14 Abril 2015 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Hush aims to provide better sleep
Hush Technology, Inc., a California-based startup is the latest
recipient of the Cool Idea! Award, a service grant given to
innovative products by quick-turn manufacturer Proto Labs, Inc.
(NYSE: PRLB). Hush is the world’s first smart earplug, combining
sound-eliminating foam and noise masking technology to keep
unwanted noise out while allowing important alerts in.
Hush Technology will use a service grant
from Proto Labs' Cool Idea! Award to help develop its smart earplug
system. A first of its kind, the product combines sound-eliminating
foam and noise masking technology to keep unwanted noise out while
allowing important alerts in. (Photo: Business Wire)
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 Daniel Lee of Hush Technology, “The
world is only getting noisier, and we aim to provide a way for
people to live together harmoniously despite this.”
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 $150.
“The Cool Idea! Award was established to help product designers
and engineers bring useful concepts to market,” says Proto Labs’
founder Larry Lukis. “The potential to improve the quality of life
for millions of people is a large reason why we want to help make
Hush a reality.”
About Cool Idea! AwardSince 2011, the Cool Idea! Award
has provided more than $750,000 in Proto Labs prototyping and
low-volume production services to entrepreneurs developing new
products in the United States and Europe. Unlike other product
awards that recognize products after they’re in mass production and
on store shelves, the Cool Idea! Award is meant to help innovative
ideas come to life. For more information about the Cool Idea! Award
and to apply, visit protolabs.com/coolidea.
About Proto LabsProto Labs is a leading online and
technology-enabled quick-turn manufacturer of custom parts for
prototyping and short-run production. Proto Labs provides “Real
Parts, Really Fast” by utilizing injection molding, computer
numerical control (CNC) machining and additive manufacturing to
produce parts for product designers and engineers worldwide. For
more information, visit protolabs.com.
About Hush TechnologyComprised 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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