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These Philips Headphones Were Designed So You Can Listen To Relaxing Audio As You Sleep

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While this isn’t your conventional sleep wearable, the Philips Sleep headphones play a unique role in helping you get better rest. The head-conforming design lets you sleep for hours without feeling uneasy or uncomfortable; the 10-hour battery helps you listen to relaxing audio or guided meditation tracks; and the built-in active noise canceling allows you to drown out external noises like the sound of cars on the road, or a snoring partner.

Created as a collaboration Philips and sleep-audio company Kokoon, the Sleep headphones help you get the fitful rest you need whenever you’re tired, or at the end of the day. We spend a third of our lives sleeping, and it plays an integral role in just how healthy and focused we are in our day-to-day lives… but the best we’ve come up with to improve our sleep are memory-foam mattresses. The Philips x Kokoon Sleep headphones take a different, more personalized approach to sleep. Built with a unique design that fits around your head, the headphones let you listen to audio while you sleep on your back or even your sides. The comfortable in-ear design helps deliver audio to your ear, whether it’s music, frequencies, or someone talking, and powerful biometric sleep sensors know when you’ve gone to sleep, automatically fading out your audio and playing back relaxing masking noise instead (to prevent external sounds from disturbing you).

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Designers: Philips & Kokoon

The Sleep Headphones’ unique design is the result of a decade of research and studying tens of thousands of head shapes to determine the one flexible design that can comfortably fit all users. The processing unit, designed with a cushioned surface, sits at the back, and flexible arms let you securely position each earpiece in your corresponding ears with little to no effort. Once worn, the Sleep Headphones help you do things like relaxing, meditating, focusing, sleeping, or even just listening to your favorite playlist or podcast.

The Sleep headphones differ from your existing earbuds, in the fact that they’re calibrated to measure your sleep activity and help you sleep well every day. Tuck them in as you’re relaxing, meditating, or heading to bed, and the headphones can play any kind of audio you like to help lull you into a state of relaxation. The audio automatically fades out as soon as the headphones detect you falling asleep, and it’s replaced by masking noise that helps keep you in sound sleep. Meanwhile, the Sleep headphones’ active noise cancellation helps silence disturbing sounds like someone snoring, traffic, a loud neighbor, or the neighbor’s louder dog!

Advanced sensors in each earbud also actively help you track your sleep daily. An accelerometer and a tiny optical heart rate monitor help the Sleep Headphones know whether you’re relaxed, or how much you move around while sleeping. This information is displayed on the Kokoon app, giving you a comprehensive breakdown of how you’ve slept, while also letting you compare your sleep quality over a period of weeks and months.

The headphones are controlled through the Kokoon app, which allows you to access its features like listening to meditation audio or binaural soundscapes, and even tap into Kokoon’s AI sleep coach that helps create your sleep schedule for you. The app even integrates with apps like YouTube, Netflix, Spotify, Apple Music, and Audible on your phone, allowing you to watch videos, play music, or listen to podcasts through the Kokoon. To control playback, buttons on the main unit help you adjust the volume, so you don’t need to reach for your phone every few seconds… and a built-in microphone also lets you make voice calls with your Sleep Headphones

The Philips x Kokoon Sleep Headphones come with a universal design, although the earpieces themselves have different-sized silicone buds you can choose from. A USB-C port on the main unit lets you charge your headphones, giving you up to 10 hours of battery life on a full charge. The headphones come along with a soft-shell travel case so you can carry them on holidays too, and your purchase entitles you to a 1-year warranty on the product, along with a 1-year free subscription to the digital sleep coach and sound library within the Kokoon app.

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Kokoon EEG Headphones Enable Lucid Dreaming

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Kokoon EEG Headphones for Lucid Dreaming

Taking control over what we do in our dreams has been a sought after thing since times immemorial, but the Kokoon EEG headphones might enable us to do just that.

Tim Santos, the mechanical engineer and product designer who developed Kokoon, seems to think that headphones that analyze your brainwaves through electroencephalography are a far better way to induce lucid dreams than by using a headband with a similar function. The reason behind that might be the fact that Kokoon actually makes use of sound for relaxing you, and that’s just the first stage of the process.

During the second stage, audio levels adjust as you fall asleep, to make sure that you do not perceive the generated sounds as noise. That would definitely defeat the entire purpose of the device. During the next stage, Kokoon generates white noise to promote deep sleep. The EEG headphones will wake you up at the optimum point in the sleep cycle, to ensure that you are rested and won’t feel groggy the whole day. The companion app provides plenty of sleep insights, with graphical representations of every sleep stage. That will surely help users better understand the effectiveness of the device.

Kokoon is currently the subject of a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, and at the time of writing, the project had already raised $342,944 – 3.4 times more than the $100K funding goal. Pledging $139 as an early bird, or $159 as a regular backer, will secure a pair of Kokoon EEG headphones for lucid dreaming for you. Orders will be shipped in February 2016, provided that everything goes to plan by then.

People eager to enter the world of lucid dreaming should probably be mindful of their wallets, before investing on something that might never materialize. Back in November 2013, LUCI, an “advanced lucid dreaming inducer” in the form of a headband, was featured on Kickstarter, where the project raised more than 9 times the funding goal before the Internet proved that it was all a scam and the crowdfunding platform shut down the project. Kokoon’s partnership with Onkyo, a fairly popular Japanese electronics manufacturer, suggests that this product has greater chances of becoming a reality, though, and overall better chances of being a functional product. Seeing how successful their campaign is, I can’t wait to see if they’ll introduce any stretch goals.

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