Doppler Labs delayed their Here One earbuds.
Anyone with long commutes during their day knows the pleasure of using a pair of headphones to listen to your favorite music while you traverse the often loud and noisy city. However, listening to music loud enough on your headphones can block any outside sounds. This type of sensory deprivation is dangerous as sounds often provided warnings of dangers.
Doppler Labs, an audio startup company, is addressing this situation by developing a pair of wireless earbuds called Here One that, besides streaming music, can augment the sounds of the environment you are in. Although the earbuds were previously announced in June and were scheduled to ship in November, Doppler Labs have decided to push their launch date until February 2017.
Some of the situations the earbuds are uniquely designed to address is listening to music while walking down the street but still being able to hear the sounds of an incoming car. Another example is when you’re at a sporting event, the Here One earbuds provide you with reduced crowd noise while focusing the field action and also streaming stats about the match and the players.
Thanks to the innovative functionality of the earbuds, Doppler Labs has established partnerships with various companies and institutions for unique content and features like getting a custom audio commentary when going to the Philharmonic, or your own travel guide when visiting the San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts. Other partnerships involve the New York Mets, JetBlue, Coachella, Cleveland Cavaliers, and others to come.
According to Noah Kraft, the CEO of Doppler Labs, although they wished the earbuds could have been delivered as scheduled, especially so considering that Apple sold millions of jack-less iPhone 7s, the company still has to perform a validation build on a mass market scale.
Doppler labs will probably miss out on a lot of product sales if they don’t launch before the holidays. However, they could risk losing even more if the product was not up to the promised standards. Additionally, this extra time also gives the company time to add new features to the earbuds by forming even more partnerships with different organizations to that users can enjoy a unique experience.
Are you planning on buying the wireless earbuds from Doppler Labs?
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Michael Turner
