A startup company from Montreal, Canada called Revols are getting a lot of buzz for what appears to be their game-changing innovation for high-quality headphones.
The main problem that the company’s founders Navi Cohen and Daniel Blumer wanted to address was that of the insufficient comfort and (after a few hours of use) downright hindrance caused by the mismatch of unique ear shapes with uniform, standard issue headphones.
Their reasoning, based on obvious biological arguments, was that if a person’s ears are as unique in shape as their eyes, fingerprints or other individual, specific traits, their headphones should be too, in that shape.
They succeeded in creating a prototype now delivered through their very successful Kickstarter campaign, which in hours after launch reached its 100,000 $ goal and surpassed it, numbering 1960 backers and 442,984 $ in funding at the time of this writing.
The major innovation and breakthrough that led to this success revolves around a currently undisclosed proprietary technology developed and soon to be patented by Navi Cohen, thanks to his expertise in plastics and engineering.
In short, when he and Blumer talk about the Revols 60 seconds molding custom headphones they are not making a sensational marketing pitch, but accurately describing what their product really is: a pair of high quality headphones that you put in your ears and in 60 seconds or under adopt their shape and afterwards keep it, permanently.
It works like this: you download an app which will instruct you through the process, put the factory delivered headphones in your ear as indicated, and press a button, after which the app sends the instruction to the gel that exists on the headphones’ buds to start hardening. The whole thing takes approximately a minute, during which you get a warm sensation in the ear to let you know that it’s working.
After that, you have your very own permanent, custom headphones.
Other interesting features and functionalities.
They are wireless headphones that work via Bluetooth.
Though Revols is working on making a charging cable as well, which they are designing to allow you to listen to music while charging, at the moment the headphones work on battery, which lasts for about eight hours. But you also have the option to add another external battery for another 6 extra hours.
Being a tight fit to your ears, they have great passive noise isolation, but also have a built-in microphone that allows you to hear external noise if you want, the level of which you can adjust with the app (Revols’ self-named “adjustable soundscape”).
The audio hardware part will be provided by the Japanese firm Onkyo, renowned for high-end audio quality.
The price for Revols headphones will be 300$ when they start being sold. However, the Kickstarter campaign features a significant discount: 200$ per set if you back them up now.
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