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An End To Snoring? QuietOn Sleep Noise-Canceling Earplugs Banish Snorers' Racket

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QuietOn Sleep, earplugs that claim to vanquish the noise of snoring, were revealed today in London at the Wearable Technology Show 2018, as the presales of the gadget began on Indiegogo.

Note that the Finnish company QuietOn Ltd doesn’t promise that it can stop snoring. Not at all. Instead, it has developed a noise-canceling in-ear wearable which is designed to keep snoring noises and other low-bandwidth sounds from reaching your hearing.

In other words, QuietOn Sleep is for not for snorers so much as those who share a bed, or a room, with someone who does snore.

Earplugs generally find these frequencies hard to keep at bay, but the signal processing in QuietOn Sleep is designed specifically to deal with those snoring-type sounds.

It’s the latest product from QuietOn, with the current model aimed at quelling aircraft engine noise to make it easier to sleep on a plane.

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It’s not just the tech that’s important, though that is significant: QuietOn says the company’s technology heritage is from Nokia.

The fit of the QuietOn Sleep is also crucial, needing to fit neatly and securely in the ear without being so big that it pops out or pokes you as you turn over in your sleep. That might wake you up, which defeats the point entirely.

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Touching the earbud, by the way, turns off the noise-canceling, if you need to do that, though it’s aimed at keeping out those snoring sounds, not everything, so voices can still be heard.

The QuietOn Sleep is cased in soft materials and is small enough for 21 to sit on a credit card (though you probably don’t need to actually try this).

Noise-canceling needs electricity, so there’s a battery in the QuietOn Sleep, because the technology works by using a microphone to sample sound, creating a phase-shifted sound that balances it out, and playing that through a speaker. The microphone on this gadget sits inside the ear canal. QuietOn says the battery lasts for 20 hours between charges and the carrying case it comes with also functions as a charger. The current QuietOn model costs $221 (€179) and this new model will cost $239, though early birds on Indiegogo can grab them for $109. The first models will be available at the end of the year, probably from October.

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