While your iPod or MP3 player makes your music portable, average headphones can sometimes make listening less than convenient. You may not notice the sound difference when you accidentally put the left earbud in your right ear and the right earbud in your left ear. But you have probably heard a significant change in the music quality when sharing your headset with a friend.
The Igarashi Design Interfaces Project is looking to solve those sound quality problems with their Universal Headphones. Audiophiles and serious gamers will appreciate these smart headphones’ use of sensors to identify right and left ears, ensuring that a track’s separate audio channels are sent to the right ear for optimal listening.
The Universal Headphones also solve a problem anyone who’s shared a listening experience (and their headset) knows all too well. Instead of giving each listener only one side of the audio mix, these intelligent headphones switch to mono listening, so each listener gets both audio channels.
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