by Boombotix
Hear
the world around you with wireless headphones equipped with bionic hearing
capabilities
In
2009 we started building clip-on portable speakers because we wanted to create
an alternative to headphones for hearing music on the fly. We realized that
being able to hear the world around you while hearing your music had tremendous
value. In 2013 we launched our 3rd generation product, the Boombot REX here on
Kickstarter. From that moment, we realized there was a huge market of users
that were looking for a portable audio solution like what we were building. We
started with just over a thousand units on Kickstarter. Three years later we
had sold over 250,000 units globally.... but our creativity was not satisfied.
A
lot of people asked us if we were ever going to make headphones. It seemed like
a natural product line expansion. The problem was that it did not fit with
our original brand roots in being an alternative to headphones. It wasn't until
Lief was on a heli-ski trip in Canada when he looked at flight headsets and
thought about how cool it would be if we could hear the world around us without
sacrificing our ability to communicate.
That's
when we came up with the foundation for HYBRID Audio. The basic concept was to
put additional external microphones onto the headphones. With the push of a
button, users could engage those external microphones and pull in ambient audio
without interrupting their music.
www.boombotix.com
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