These revolutionary digital ear plugs just raised $250,000 on Kickstarter in 3 days
A company called Doppler Labs just finished the prototype for an incredible new technology that has the potential to change live concerts and even the way we hear the world. It’s called Here Active Listening, and it’s a wireless earbud that, instead of playing music, lets you control the sound of the world around you.
With the understanding that I don’t have sensory processing problems, I feel like this would be incredibly useful for people with sensory processing issues - like, when everything sounds equally loud, being about to filter out the sudden sirens, beeping, chatter, etc would be a miracle!
oh my fucking GOD
^^I do have sensory processing issues and I CAN CONFIRM THAT THIS WOULD BE GREAT. I don’t have problems all the time, usually my filters are pretty good, but the more stressed I am the more work they take. So…lack of sleep, long day of classes, and then I walk into a loud, crowded space and BAM overload. I worked in my college’s dining hall last semester and I would get to the point of having to put my head down and cover my ears to avoid having a full-on meltdown in public–I was almost fired and I had to beg the person running the dining hall to let me bring headphones in so that I could function. I would have killed to have something like these.