Say goodbye to getting wrapped up in miles of cord connecting your MP3 player to your headphones. Split is a wireless audio player that fits the ears like ear buds. The magnetic earphones turn on when you split them apart. You can control the volume and playback via “bite clicks” or by biting down which is detected by a 3-axis accelerometer. One bite skips a track while a double bite adjusts the volume. The player can be locked to avoid potential chaos when they’re chewing gum while using the device! Each earphone contains a memory chip, circuit board, processor and a button cell battery. Both earbuds are synchronized with high precision crystal clocks so they can play in unison. The device can be charged using a standard USB. The earbuds only exchange a short near-field signal when the track or volume is changed reducing the amount of radiation you are exposed to as compared to a Bluetooth streaming headset. The main limitation is that music is stored locally in the earphones in a memory of 256MB.
With no buttons or microphone for voice command, Split uses its accelerometers for control. These are designed to respond when the user bites.
One bite, even a soft ‘bite click’, changes tracks, and two bites changes the volume, cycling through low, medium, high and muted volume settings. The volume control can also be used to place the player on standby.
Tapping the right earbud deactivates the control.Split’s makers have just launched a Kickstarter campaign aimed at bringing the current design to production standard and to enable mass production of the device.
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